Leavenworth Honored by Pie Thawing

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-To cheers from a crowd Wednesday, Joan Ellsly Leavenworth was honored with the Ceremonial Pie Thawing, taking a jumbo pumpkin pie out of a refrigerator filled with solution and placing it into an oven. The Ceremonial Pie is the only to be baked Wednesday, and the only Feast Fest food prepared the day before. It will be presented to Lindbergh Merrssff along with the Ceremonial Turkey.

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Dumas "Feeling Fine"

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-"I feel fine."

So says FF chef Peter Dumas of the recovery from his Tuesday tailbone injury. He's confident he will be able to operate more or less as normal on the Feast Fest floor.

However, some, especially in the medical community, advise Dumas to take caution on the floor. He said he had considered not using the wheelie sneakers worn by chefs on the floor, but later thought of them as posing a threat.

"I just have to be more watchful. And I definitely won't try to go backwards again. I'll try my best not to get into any collisions, and if I do, I'll try to position myself so that I don't reaggravate the tailbone injury yet again."

He received the injury at a Feast Fest exhibition in March, and then reaggravated it Tuesday at the Mock "Dress Rehearsal" Feast Fest.

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Dumas Should Participate

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Peter Dumas should be able to participate in Feast Fest Thursday relatively painlessly after he injured his tailbone Tuesday. The injury during the Mock "Dress Rehearsal" Feast Fest was not a fresh one, rather a reaggravation of a tailbone injury he suffered in March.

Dumas was medicated heavily for pain at a nearby hospital Tuesday, then returned to the Beachview. He was told he can participate in Feast Fest tomorrow but that he should take "extra care" to avoid even further reaggravation of the injury.

Dumas marks the second chef this past week to have uncertainty about participating due to an injury; Jarólde Jámes had surgery for a torn muscle on Friday, but has now made a full recovery and says he "feel[s] wholly fine."




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Wednesday and Thursday: Nonstop Coverage

Come here and keep coming back here for full details and nonstop posting coverage on the leadup to Feast Fest Wednesday and on the actual event on Thursday!

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