As the United States was beginning to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Devon Still was transforming his Houston home kitchen into an upscale steakhouse.
The 31-year-old former NFL defensive lineman wasn’t concerned about how the coronavirus would affect his business. All the patrons he needed—four, himself included—were living there already; love was the only currency accepted. To say the Still family was looking forward to their steakhouse celebration, on March 25, would be an understatement. Five years earlier, Still received the greatest news of his life: His daughter Leah’s cancer was in remission.
“When your daughter wants to go to the steakhouse to celebrate but we’re locked down in quarantine, you just gotta whip out that chef hat,” Still said in an Instagram video he posted that night.