-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-It has been confirmed that one of the many purposes of the 30-city, 11-day World Tour to be taken by William Vanderbilt, Jim Dall, and Arthur Ayeiy will be to meet with the Parisian master Claudien Ainenl in Paris and with his agent in Budapest, Hungary.
Ainenl and FF negotiated heavily in 2011 in hopes of signing him to a 2012 deal. However, while Ainenl and Feast Fest were on good terms, FF scouters struggled to move past Ainenl's agent, and talks sputtered to a trickle in February.
In August, Ainenl announced he had hired a new agent in hopes of bolstering discussions with Feast Fest. Ainenl and Dall web-chatted Sept. 23, but that's the only talk the two sides have had since the new agent came in, due to preoccupation with more pressing issues.
However, meetings with both Ainenl and his new agent, Rscuscka Mijoppa, are scheduled for Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, respectively. "We're finally going to get back to talks with this extraordinary chef, and we're very pleased about that," Dall said late in the day Friday.
Mijoppa released a statement saying, "I am looking forward to collaborating with the executives at Feast Fest in order to ensure my client can make a fair, proper, and prosperous deal with this event."
Ainenl and FF talked much in fall 2011 and winter 2011-12 in hopes of adding him to the 2012 Feast Fest squad. His old agent refused to accept contract offers below $900,000, even when the chef himself was willing to go lower in the numbers. "His own agent was actually restricting his own options," Mijoppa wrote, "and he did not like that at all. That is why he came to and hired me. I will make recommendations to Mr. Ainenl, but I will not stifle the negotiations unreasonably in the way that his old agent did."
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