Vanderbilt, Dall, Ayeiy, Shady Trip Schedules Released

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Feast Fest Events, Inc. has released the official schedules for the lengthy scouting and contract negotiation trips to be taken by Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt, Head Scouter Jim Dall, and Executive Assistants Arthur Ayeiy and Beryl Shady. All four will embark on separate trips, departing and arriving all on separate dates, but some of the trips will coincide at different points; for example, both Dall and Vanderbilt will meet perennial contractual contender Claudien Ainenl in Paris, and Shady and Ayeiy will both attend a meeting with a chef in Chicago. Ayeiy and Vanderbilt will coordinate a visit to Montreal. All four executives' trips will coincide in Tokyo on August 31, where all four will attend the Kitchen Stadium Tokyo exhibition there.

Vanderbilt's schedule:
Aug. 15 Depart Los Angeles - San Diego
Aug. 16 San Francisco
Aug. 17 Denver
Aug. 18 Dallas
Aug. 19 Houston - Nashville - Chicago
Aug. 20 Chicago - Indianapolis - St. Louis
Aug. 21 Minneapolis - Miami
Aug. 22 Miami
Aug. 23 Tampa - Orlando
Aug. 24 Jacksonville - Raleigh
Aug. 25 Washington, D.C. - Philadelphia
Aug. 26 Pittsburgh - New York City
Aug. 27 New York City
Aug. 28 New York City
Aug. 29 London
Aug. 30 Travel to Tokyo
Aug. 31 Tokyo
Sept. 1 Yokohama
Sept. 2 Manila
Sept. 3 Beijing
Sept. 4 Travel to Paris
Sept. 5 Paris
Sept. 6 Zurich
Sept. 7 Rome
Sept. 8 Boston
Sept. 9 Boston
Sept. 10 Seattle
Sept. 11 Portland
Sept. 12 Los Angeles

Dall's schedule
Aug. 29 Depart Los Angeles - Honolulu
Aug. 30 Honolulu
Aug. 31 Tokyo
Sept. 1 Sydney
Sept. 2 Travel to Athens
Sept. 2 Athens
Sept. 3 Copenhagen
Sept. 4 Rome
Sept. 5 Paris
Sept. 6 London
Sept. 7 Montreal - Ottawa - Toronto
Sept. 8 Toronto - Chicago
Sept. 9 Boston
Sept. 10 New York City
Sept. 11 Oklahoma City
Sept. 12 Vancouver
Sept. 13 San Francisco
Sept. 14 Los Angeles

Ayeiy's schedule
TRIP 1
Aug. 11 Depart Los Angeles - Phoenix
Aug. 12 Salt Lake City - Denver
Aug. 13 Dallas - St. Louis
Aug. 14 Chicago - Philadelphia
Aug. 15 Miami
Aug. 16 New York City
Aug. 17 Boston
Aug. 18 New York City
Aug. 19 London
Aug. 20 Los Angeles

TRIP 2
Aug. 27 Los Angeles - Sydney
Aug. 28 Sydney
Aug. 29 Beijing
Aug. 30 Tokyo
Aug. 31 Tokyo

TRIP 3
Sept. 8 Chicago

Logo to come shortly

-The official Feast Fest XIX 2013 logo has been released to the public and should be appearing at the top of the page shortly. 

Vanderbilt, Dall, Ayeiy, and Shady Trips All To Be Announced

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt, Head Scouter Jim Dall, Executive Assistant Arthur Ayeiy, and Executive Assistant Beryl Shady all will embark on four separate-but-at-times-conjoined trips later this month and into September for purposes of scouting, contract negotiation, and other matters. All four will stop by for the next Feast Fest exhibition, on Saturday, August 31, at Kitchen Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.

Full schedules for the four are expected later today, but it is known that the trips will take them across as many as seventeen countries on five continents.

Feast Fest XIX Logo to be Released

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Feast Fest Logo Designer Remunne Tchaikov is slated to officially release the Feast Fest XIX (2013) logo later today. Executive Assistant Beryl Shady confirmed that Tchaikov had completed the logo and had sent it to Feast Fest, where it was scheduled for release sometime Tuesday.

"Mr. Tchaikov did a spectacular job of designing our wondrous 2012 logo, and I am certain his creation will only further capture the spirit of the event here in 2013," Shady said in a press release.

Tchaikov took over the job of Logo Designer in 2012 from Andris Petrys, who designed the event's logos from 1999 to 2011.

Although officials loved Tchaikov's logo in 2012, others were not so thrilled. Art critics gave Tchaikov's 2012 logo a 6.4 on a 10 point scale, following critic scores of 7.2, 8.4, and 7.9, respectively, in 2011, 2010, and 2009. The best rated FF logo by art critics was Petrys's masterpiece in 2004.

Shelstinnia Leaving Again

-Bradford, U.K.
-Feast Fest chef Rina Shelstinnia is leaving Feast Fest after contractual negotiations flamed out Tuesday.

Shelstinnia (4/25/76) brought her World talents to Feast Fests XII (2006) and XVIII (2012). Shelstinnia was fired in December 2006 due to punctuality failure at FF XII, but got and fulfilled a second chance at FF XVIII. "Ms. Shelstinnia had a spectacular 2012 performance, and her struggles in 2006 did not factor into this decision," assured Head Scouter Jim Dall.

Rather, Dall said that Shelstinnia's hop across the pond to a restaurant in England had made it difficult for her to travel to the event and its exhibitions. She hasn't even been able to attend any exhibitions because her contract has been in limbo since January.

In hopes of putting the long case to an end, Dall and other scouters attempted to lure Shelstinnia with a $457,288, staggered 3-year deal through Feast Fest 2015, with an opt-out option after Feast Fest 2013 if she felt the travel arrangements weren't working. The offer followed a Jul. 1 offer for $422,246 per year over two years, with a opt-out option, and a Mar. 3 offer for $412,443 per year for one year.

Shelstinnia officially rejected the third offer Tuesday, and scouters then announced that they would cease negotiations with Shelstinnia. Rina Shelstinnia said she was "saddened" that an agreement could not be reached, but she hoped that Feast Fest would "keep a seat warm for [her] for a possible 2014 return."

Expert commentator Mike Vilshire said that the Scouting Department's unwillingness to pursue the matter further showed that "they think of Shelstinnia as a low-tiered, expendable chef whom they can replace easily."

Shelstinnia racked up 24 NCA points at Feast Fest 2012, and 6 in 2006.

• DREIM WILL NOT BE ON FF TEAM THIS THANKSGIVING •

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-It's official.

With the 2012 Feast Fest Official Roll Call of Chefs complete, Stephen Dreim will not be a member of the squad, and a virulent anti-Dreim movement among chefs could quell talks for a 2013 rehiring during the offseason.

Scouters fired off four separate deals Monday, the amounts of which were not publicly released, but Anna Milk, a scooter working on the Dreim case, said that the first two were 4-year deals, the third was a 5-year deal, and the fourth was a 6-year deal, and that one was staggered. Dreim rejected the first two deals, "contemplated" and then rejected the third, and was in the middle of "contemplating" a fourth when the roll call commenced and time ran out.

"We are extremely disappointed about the way negotiations with Mr. Dreim have gone, and we hope we will be able to come to a deal when the offseason recommences come December," so said Head Scouter Jim Dall. Dall added, "[Rehiring Dreim] will be the first task on our agenda when the next offseason begins."

But not if the chefs have their way. Chefs failed to get scouters to agree to a pact requiring Dreim to be placed on the barred list and threatening mass resignations and salary raise requests should this not occur. They can forget about the pact for the time being, as the chefs have scored a hollow-chocolate victory with the deadline passing and voiding negotiations, but the chefs will have to come back to the bargaining table with the scouters if they don't want negotiations with Dreim to rejuice themselves in 2013. "This is only half the battle," said Peter Dumas, who co-wrote the pact accusing Dreim of being rude, conceited, and threatening to his colleagues in his four years on the Feast Fest floor. 44 of the 65 chefs signed the pact.

A few of Dreim's allies on the Feast Fest squad were disappointed by the deadline passing. "Steve was a terrific chef and a great colleague who I loved working with on the Feast Fest floor, and it beats me where these totally unfounded accusations of threats and haughtiness are coming from," said one chef who declined to give his game for fear of being "chewed out" by the large anti-Dreim majority.

"While we support continued unemployment of Dreim in terms of Feast Fest," said Dumas, "we understand that a minority does exist in support of Dreim, and we must cooperate with and continue forging our positive relationships with those who do support Dreim in order to avoid a harmful splintering into factions and/or a polarization among our glorious body of Feast Fest chefs."

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Merrsff to Receive "Lifetime Achievement Award" from NCA at Feast Fest

-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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