-Morro Bay, Ca.
-Tony Ruscoso, the Vermont-based Feast Fest newcomer, should have a breakout performance this evening at Windows on the Water in Morro Bay.
Ruscoso was signed in June, but he was held back from the Jul. 2 Boston exhibition due to work commitments (despite its proximity to Vermont), and illness kept him from participating in the next and most recent exhibition, Tokyo on Sept. 16.
Ruscoso's two failed attempts to participate in Feast Fest exhibitions made some wary, especially since there had been confusion during his contract negotiation process as to how long he planned to stay with the event, gaffing by using the word "experimentation" and making many think that Feast Fest was just a little fling that the American-born Italian chef at a Vermont mountain resort was unlikely to take seriously.
Ruscoso, however, wants to dispel those rumors. "There have been some nasty things said," commented Ruscoso midday Monday. "There have just been an unfortunate series of extenuating circumstances, wherein I gaffed once, and then there were two sets of extenuating circumstances which disallowed me from attending the first two exhibitions for which I was eligible for participation." And the combination of those two, Ruscoso says, "led to me having a bad image, a bad reputation. That's something I want to set straight, tonight, on that floor."
The first exhibition of a Feast Fest chef is critical in determining their performance levels. One chef in 2007 never even saw Feast Fest that year because he performed too poorly in the exhibitions. Alan Rousswick bumbled in three consecutive exhibitions and was fired three weeks before Thanksgiving. (Rousswick, however, was rehired in 2009 and has performed flawlessly since.)
"I'll take it easy to get my feet wet, but I want to concentrate and make some sort of impression, something that will eliminate or at least chop down to size some of these scathing rumors questioning my commitment that have been swirling around."
Ruscoso says he has been personally wounded by the comments that he has no sense of commitment. "I've been an avid follower of Feast Fest from its beginnings in the mid-1990s. I know the commitment these chefs put into this event. I want to prove to myself and to them that I can uphold such a commitment."
After all, he says, "it's one of the main reasons I joined."
-Tony Ruscoso, the Vermont-based Feast Fest newcomer, should have a breakout performance this evening at Windows on the Water in Morro Bay.
Ruscoso was signed in June, but he was held back from the Jul. 2 Boston exhibition due to work commitments (despite its proximity to Vermont), and illness kept him from participating in the next and most recent exhibition, Tokyo on Sept. 16.
Ruscoso's two failed attempts to participate in Feast Fest exhibitions made some wary, especially since there had been confusion during his contract negotiation process as to how long he planned to stay with the event, gaffing by using the word "experimentation" and making many think that Feast Fest was just a little fling that the American-born Italian chef at a Vermont mountain resort was unlikely to take seriously.
Ruscoso, however, wants to dispel those rumors. "There have been some nasty things said," commented Ruscoso midday Monday. "There have just been an unfortunate series of extenuating circumstances, wherein I gaffed once, and then there were two sets of extenuating circumstances which disallowed me from attending the first two exhibitions for which I was eligible for participation." And the combination of those two, Ruscoso says, "led to me having a bad image, a bad reputation. That's something I want to set straight, tonight, on that floor."
The first exhibition of a Feast Fest chef is critical in determining their performance levels. One chef in 2007 never even saw Feast Fest that year because he performed too poorly in the exhibitions. Alan Rousswick bumbled in three consecutive exhibitions and was fired three weeks before Thanksgiving. (Rousswick, however, was rehired in 2009 and has performed flawlessly since.)
"I'll take it easy to get my feet wet, but I want to concentrate and make some sort of impression, something that will eliminate or at least chop down to size some of these scathing rumors questioning my commitment that have been swirling around."
Ruscoso says he has been personally wounded by the comments that he has no sense of commitment. "I've been an avid follower of Feast Fest from its beginnings in the mid-1990s. I know the commitment these chefs put into this event. I want to prove to myself and to them that I can uphold such a commitment."
After all, he says, "it's one of the main reasons I joined."
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