-Marina del Rey, Calif.
-While Monday morning will be the official arrival period for most of the Feast Fest chefs, 20 chefs arrived in Marina del Rey on Sunday ahead of the ten-day preparation and practice period preceding Feast Fest, which is on Nov. 28. The activities officially begin Monday evening with the official Feast Fest roll call, with practice sessions commencing Tuesday morning.
Andruw Stephan, Lynn Avi, Joe Pasik, Lisa Choi, Laelech Crellas, Peter Dumas, Daniel Mettling, Lakeland Donavert, Jacqueline Pierce-Mulleone, Ivan Peterman, Pete Willis, Jawrodly Jurrjens, Jarolde James, Miranda Morimota Patton, Keith Wholehreh, Tony Ruscoso, Wiley Anders, Adam McNeese, Marc Monde, and Jane Rousswick all arrived Sunday. Andruw's brother Jan, the Mason Duo, and Co-Head Chef Jim McAllister are all based in the Los Angeles area and thus will be able to participate in the 10-day preparation session without checking in to the hotel.
Rousswick's connection to a scouting scandal may bench her from Feast Fest. She is expected to sit out early practices as she faces interrogation over the matter wherein a now-fired scouter dipped into Feast Fest's official budget to give her $122,222 in lavish gifts.
However, those 20 chefs all arrived later than first-year newbie Eric NacGnissecorp. The wunderkind arrived on Saturday to get in an extra day of practice, and was billed for his room after he found out that Feast Fest only comps rooms beginning on Sunday night.
The other 46 chefs are expected to arrive Monday, and they must if they want to participate: chefs MUST be present at the official roll call, at 8:00 p.m., in order to be rostered on Thanksgiving. A chef has not been scrapped from the roster due to failure to make the roll call since 2006. Still, though, chefs are lobbying hard to have that rule changed, saying that their actions on Monday should not affect whether or not they get to participate 10 days later, and also making the point that the rule does not grant chefs any measure of amnesty for failure to show up based on travel or weather delays. However, the rule will still remain in place this year, despite efforts to abolish it beginning in 2014.
The arrived chefs, most of them Feast Fest veterans and higher-ups, convened Sunday evening. Some had dabbled in a bit of practice earlier in the afternoon.
"After two terrible exhibitions," Jan Stephan said, "we want to get every inch of practice that we can before Thanksgiving. We can't let the score slip like we did at Edelyn and Morro."
FF Wire Service
-While Monday morning will be the official arrival period for most of the Feast Fest chefs, 20 chefs arrived in Marina del Rey on Sunday ahead of the ten-day preparation and practice period preceding Feast Fest, which is on Nov. 28. The activities officially begin Monday evening with the official Feast Fest roll call, with practice sessions commencing Tuesday morning.
Andruw Stephan, Lynn Avi, Joe Pasik, Lisa Choi, Laelech Crellas, Peter Dumas, Daniel Mettling, Lakeland Donavert, Jacqueline Pierce-Mulleone, Ivan Peterman, Pete Willis, Jawrodly Jurrjens, Jarolde James, Miranda Morimota Patton, Keith Wholehreh, Tony Ruscoso, Wiley Anders, Adam McNeese, Marc Monde, and Jane Rousswick all arrived Sunday. Andruw's brother Jan, the Mason Duo, and Co-Head Chef Jim McAllister are all based in the Los Angeles area and thus will be able to participate in the 10-day preparation session without checking in to the hotel.
Rousswick's connection to a scouting scandal may bench her from Feast Fest. She is expected to sit out early practices as she faces interrogation over the matter wherein a now-fired scouter dipped into Feast Fest's official budget to give her $122,222 in lavish gifts.
However, those 20 chefs all arrived later than first-year newbie Eric NacGnissecorp. The wunderkind arrived on Saturday to get in an extra day of practice, and was billed for his room after he found out that Feast Fest only comps rooms beginning on Sunday night.
The other 46 chefs are expected to arrive Monday, and they must if they want to participate: chefs MUST be present at the official roll call, at 8:00 p.m., in order to be rostered on Thanksgiving. A chef has not been scrapped from the roster due to failure to make the roll call since 2006. Still, though, chefs are lobbying hard to have that rule changed, saying that their actions on Monday should not affect whether or not they get to participate 10 days later, and also making the point that the rule does not grant chefs any measure of amnesty for failure to show up based on travel or weather delays. However, the rule will still remain in place this year, despite efforts to abolish it beginning in 2014.
The arrived chefs, most of them Feast Fest veterans and higher-ups, convened Sunday evening. Some had dabbled in a bit of practice earlier in the afternoon.
"After two terrible exhibitions," Jan Stephan said, "we want to get every inch of practice that we can before Thanksgiving. We can't let the score slip like we did at Edelyn and Morro."
FF Wire Service
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