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-William Vanderbilt, Jim Dall, and Arthur Ayeiy were forced to strike Washington and Philadelphia from their itinerary of an 11-day, 30-city world tour Monday, courtesy of the fury of Hurricane Sandy. However, their Tuesday schedule, previously jeopardized, will remain intact, Vanderbilt announced late Monday, and Feast Fest chef's famed Halloween Haul cooking event, earlier slated to be cancelled to delayed, will take place on its originally scheduled Tuesday date, Pasik said.
"I think we really dodged a bullet here. I've been checking things around the Back Bay here and I think by this time tomorrow we'll be back to normal," Pasik said, speaking from Boston.
Vanderbilt, Dall, and Ayeiy scrubbed Philadelphia and Washington from Monday's agenda, maintaining a Chicago stop and rescheduling a Houston stop from Nov. 4 to Monday, for purposes of filling out the day. Tuesday's schedule, for Toronto, Montrèal, and Boston, where the threesome will attend Pasik's "Haul," was in limbo earlier Monday but will now remain intact. The three may add a twelfth day to their eleven day global recruiting and contract negotiation trek to make up for the lost capital and City of Brotherly Love stops.
Lynn Avi, speaking from Florida, said that flooding was not threatening and that damage was minimal in her Midtown Manhattan eatery. Johnny Stevenson, an FF chef based in Latrobe, Pa., said power went out and service stopped at his cafe, but otherwise there were no adverse effects. Jon Chu of Washington had less reassuring reports: high winds had caused a signpost to impale a poorly boarded window. Chi closed his restaurant early morning Monday, after breakfast service, just in front of Sandy.
"It's a huge storm," Stevenson said. "But I think, in a microcosmical sense, the effects this hurricane has on Feast Fest have been, thankfully, less so than what we anticipated."
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