A popular columnist, Ed Grisamore, for my hometown paper, The Macon Telegraph learned about Southern Fried Rice and called to interview me. He had been researching some other topic in the library when the historian showed him SFR which led him to write an article about the story of our family. Suddenly, several boyhood friends who read the article popped out of the blue and contacted me, and invited me to come back to Macon for a visit. It was an unexpected pleasure! Isn't it amazing the power of a printed newspaper article .