-Setauket, N.Y.
-Lindbergh Merrssff will receive a special "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the NCA as part of Feast Fest opening ceremonies, Manager William Vanderbilt announced late Sunday. Merrssff claimed to be "ecstatic" here at his home in Setauket, a Long Island beach town.
Merrssff will be the Guest of Honor for Feast Fest 2012 and will be the recipient of the Ceremonial Turkey. Merrssff has received various accolades from Feast Fest and the NCA in his retirement. In addition, Merrssff was honored with a Feast Fest "Lifetime Achievement Award" during Feast Fest XV (2009), but this is the first time he will be honored with such an award by the significantly larger domain of the NCA.
"Mr. Merrssff is a spectacular and extraordinary chef whose life and whose work has embodied and continues to embody everything we here at the NCA stand for," said NCA President Al Green.
He will be presented with the award as part of Opening Ceremonies for Feast Fest.
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