MOMMIE Helen's Bakery, Shaquille O'Neal's favorite, will be providing its savory sweet potato pies at NFL great Tim Brown's Athletes & Entertainers for Kids charity, which will be hosting its 11th Annual SBC Celebrity Golf Classic on Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at the St. Regis Resort in Dana Point, California.

Shaq was her first celebrity client after Mommie Helen's secured a vendor slot at Shaq's annual "Shaqtacular," which was a children's event held at Universal Studios in North Hollywood, California, for sev<<cont zone>>eral years prior to Shaquille being traded to the NBA's Miami Heat after the 2003-2004 season. Despite Shaq's departure from L.A., Mommie Helen's Bakery continues to serve a diverse celebrity clientele that includes Magic Johnson, JB Bryant, Master P, Kathy Ireland, Kimberly Elise, Steve Harvey, Junior Seau, Julius Erving, Willie Gault, and James Worthy, among others. Her pies have been shipped to forty of the fifty states, including Hawaii and Alaska, and around the world to China, Japan, France, England, Senegal and Brazil.

 

as reported in Encyclopaedia Britannica Magazine.

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