NCA's Best Goes to Avi

-New York
-Lynn Avi won her fourth NCA award of the year and her second NCA's Best as the four-week NCA 2011 Awards Announcement Period culminated in a final day of award handouts, including the NCA's Best.

3 FF chefs were in the running; only Avi podiumed.

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Executive Board Issues Ultimatum to Limit 2013 Expansion Proposals

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-The Executive Board of Feast Fest issued Wednesday an ultimatum intended to put a stop to the unwieldy number of 2013 expansion measures popping up in Feast Fest Events, Inc.'s lower legislative body, the Organization Senate.

Under the ultimatum, no new measures that could allow for expansion to two or multiple Feast Fest meals in 2013 or later may be even considered in the Organization Senate until January 2, 2012. If, at that time, the Executive Board becomes inundated with proposals, it could extend the ultimatum for two additional months.

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Avi Grabs Third NCA Award of Year

-New York
-Lynn Avi is quickly becoming one of the world's premier chefs, evidenced by her growing collection of NCA awards.

Avi, 30, won the NCA's Most Determined Title Wednesday. It's her second time winning this award and her third of 2011.

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Chefs Arrive for Feast Fest, Have Day of Meetings, Begin Training Sessions Wednesday

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-All 61 Feast Fest chefs were counted as in attendance at the Beachview Monday night, where they will spend two weeks relocated here for Feast Fest XVII.

The chefs will begin training tomorrow, and conducted a series of meetings with Feast Fest executives Tuesday. Former FF chef, teenage culinary maven Brianna Galen-Ames, overcame her broken ankle to travel here from her Central Illinois home to participate in negotiations. A survey of chefs showed they generally disapproved of her return by a margin of 47-13, saying such a more would likely generate more controversy swirling around the event than would be wanted.

Galen-Ames suffered her injury Oct. 20 when she stormed out of a conference room in ire after being heavily jeered, and wound up slipping on a waxed floor.

In addition, the lower legislative body of the event, the Organization Senate, came up with a proposal that would potentially create a setup with two Feast Fest meals, the additional on either Wednesday or Friday, but the proposal was struck down by the 50-member body 31-19 and failed to reach the upper legislative body, the Feast Fest Executive Board.





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Avi Cradles Second Consecutive Flashiest

-New York
-Lynn Avi won, and the mononymic Moore podiumed at second in the NCA's Flashiest Chef of 2011 award.

Avi swept away competition with 20% of the voting percentile, and Moore and Lisa Choi scrapped over the gristle of the glory as Moore turned in second with 9.6% of the vote and Choi received 9.4%.

This marks Avi's third NCA first place award of the 2011 Awards Season. She earned Most Beautiful in October and racked up Best European Monday night.

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Measure to Expand To Two Feast Fest Meals on Thanksgiving Pigeonholed by Executive Board

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-The ten-member Executive Board, the highest legislative body of Feast Fest, pigeonholed Monday a measure that would have set up two Feast Fest Thanksgiving Meals on Thanksgiving starting as early as 2013.

Chief Executive William H.K. Vanderbilt and Vice Executives Arthur Ayeiy and Robert Smallston claimed that the proposal was "too logistically difficult" and that there is no way "to create a logistical, proper, two-meal setup with allowal of continual full quality of the event without serving a Thanksgiving meal on a separate day," something execs wish to avoid for "logistical and traditional purposes."

Upon hearing the news of the pigeonhole Monday, which came via a 10-0 vote of dissention, the lower legislative body of Feast Fest, the 50-member Feast Fest Event Organization Senate, immediately set about a proposal that would place a second meal on either neighboring Wednesday or Friday. Ayeiy commented that such a measure, if it were to reach the upper echelons of event management, would likely be buried as well.

"This is a one meal event," he stated. "If we are interested in expanding the number of customers we can handle, we should focus on trying to expand its capacity rather than its number of meals."

Although the Feast Fest chefs have no real management power, the Executive Board is considered "the voice of the chefs" and thus they put the matter to a vote among chefs to gauge their opinion. FF chefs disapproved of the proposal by numbers of 54-7, and when surveyed disapproved the potential for adding a second meal on a different day by a margin of 52-9. The only major chef who agreed was Lisa Choi, who said she could "see the major positives that the proposal brings to the table."

It should be noted that "pigeonholing" in Feast Fest parlance abandons the more precise definition of a proposal never even being considered and expands to include those that are not considered and those that are but which are voted against overwhelmingly.







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Correction

An article was erroneously posted late Monday that was incomplete and which stated that FF chef Moore had won the NCA's Flashiest Chef of 2011 Award. Moore actually podiumed at second and the first place title went to Lynn Avi. Full details will come soon.

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