-Chicago
-Former Feast Fest chef Brianna Galen-Ames just pulled an Ian Pertovsky.
Galen-Ames, embattled by her frustrating series of appearances at Meeting & Conference Week last week and the recent news that a scouter, Daved Leineken, tried to bribe and blackmail her over the summer, has now cut herself off from the culinary world.
Reporters rushed Galen-Ames' central Illinois home Wednesday, only to find a note, reading: "I've gone to St. Barthelemy," she wrote, referring to a Caribbean island. "Press, give privacy. Do not come."
The move smacks of similarity to the time when Ian Pertovsky become embroiled in scandals when Feast Fest tried to sign him in 2009. Fed up, he fled to the island of Crete in the Mediterranean, losing contact with the culinary world for three days.
Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt says "it's understandable, given what's gone on, that she would just want a little vacation that's private and to herself."
Vanderbilt said that nobody could know how long Galen-Ames would be gone.
Vanderbilt heavily urged reporters and FF scouters not to travel to St. Barthelemy to look for the 16-year-old culinary maven, but said that "it is unlikely that those commands will be followed."
Galen-Ames is recovering from a broken ankle she suffered Thursday when she stormed out of a Conference Hall after being heckled by the crowd and slipped on a freshly waxed floor.
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