FF Chefs Arrive, Await Roll Call

-Marina del Rey, Calif.
-One question pervades throughout Feast Fest this evening:

Where is D.A. Cook?

Cook was the only of the 67 chefs not present at the Beachview. He must be present at the Roll Call at 8 p.m., just an hour away, or else be benched from Feast Fest Nov. 28.

Cook was yet another chef to complain about that regulation of being punished with derostering if one misses the roll call, tweeting about four hours ago, "Weather delays such as the one that has stranded me at ORD should not be followed up by scratching. #Unfair" It was not known if Cook would make the roll call. Adding to Cook's stress is the fact that, while the roll call can take up to twenty or thirty minutes, names are called out in a random, nonalphabetical order. "His name could be the first or the last called, which heightens the rush," Jim McAllister said. McAllister's name was called last in 2007, enabling him to just squeak in after travel delays caused him to arrive during the middle of the Roll Call.

FF Wire Service