FF Executive Assistant Arthur Ayeiy will set off for Phoenix on Sunday in the first of twelve stops over ten days on the first of three legs of a world scouting and contract negotiation tour. All four major FF leaders--Ayeiy, Executive Mgr. William Vanderbilt, Head Scouter Jim Dall, and Executive Assistant Beryl Shady--will set off for major negotiation trips in August and September, but Ayeiy has been sent off first, often to cities Dall or Vanderbilt will be visiting, as a method of "paving the way" for their visits.
Ayeiy will meet with eight current chefs and three prospective chefs in the first leg of the journey.
The NCA Feast Fest lives here
Friday, August 9, 2013
Maintenance Scheduled
-The Feast Fest ticketing hotline will be shut down for maintenance from 8 a.m. Pacific/11 a.m. Eastern to 12 p.m. Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern Friday. At 12 p.m., the hotline will resume service through 5 p.m. Pacific/8 p.m. Eastern.
Apologies are issued for any inconvenience.
Apologies are issued for any inconvenience.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Jockell Making 2013 Last Year
-Chicago
-The aging Americana talents of Jane Jockell will not grace Feast Fest after 2013.
Jockell, 55, said she was aiming to "slow down" from the hurried pace of FF life and to return to full time devotion to her Chicago restaurant.
"These past seven years with Feast Fest have been absolutely amazing," Jockell said in an email, "and this decision was incredibly difficult to have to make. However, in 2012 I felt significant wear on my abilities and a significant inability to tend to my eatery," which, Jockell explained, was in murky financial waters. "While thanks to Feast Fest I could retire today, STOP was my creation that I poured my life into, and it breaks my heart to see it struggling to fight off closure." Therefore, this situation, coupled with her aging and the fact that her children have all grown up and moved on to college, reportedly motivated Jockell to "be able to return to full time service at STOP."
Jockell assured that she would participate in FF 2013 on Nov. 28, saying she would put "as much energy and vim into the enterprise as I always have." "It is my dream to help this event reach the promised land of 100," she said, but confirmed she would not be re-signing her contract when it is slated to come up for renewal in January.
Jockell signed a three-year extension for Feast Fests 2011, 2012, and 2013 on Jan. 28, 2011, after several weeks of intense negotiations. "I want to assure everybody," she said, "this does not have to do with contractual disagreements, this does not have to do with any tensions within the event. I have been thrilled with my time here and I am very saddened to leave, but this was entirely my decision."
Head Scouter Jim Dall seemed taken aback by the announcement late Thursday. "We were on good terms with Mrs. Jockell and had been prepared to re-sign her in January to another multi year contract. However, we certainly can respect and understand her decision."
"Mrs. Jockell brought Midwestern bread-basket values to the kitchen in a unique style that will be very hard to emulate without her," said Event Manager William Vanderbilt. "We are incredibly saddened to hear of her departure from our event, but this will serve as a token moment to look back on all the great things she did in her seven Feast Fests--eight by the time she will retire--and this will give us the opportunity to root for her harder than ever when she steps out onto the floor for a spectacular farewell performance this November."
-The aging Americana talents of Jane Jockell will not grace Feast Fest after 2013.
Jockell, 55, said she was aiming to "slow down" from the hurried pace of FF life and to return to full time devotion to her Chicago restaurant.
"These past seven years with Feast Fest have been absolutely amazing," Jockell said in an email, "and this decision was incredibly difficult to have to make. However, in 2012 I felt significant wear on my abilities and a significant inability to tend to my eatery," which, Jockell explained, was in murky financial waters. "While thanks to Feast Fest I could retire today, STOP was my creation that I poured my life into, and it breaks my heart to see it struggling to fight off closure." Therefore, this situation, coupled with her aging and the fact that her children have all grown up and moved on to college, reportedly motivated Jockell to "be able to return to full time service at STOP."
Jockell assured that she would participate in FF 2013 on Nov. 28, saying she would put "as much energy and vim into the enterprise as I always have." "It is my dream to help this event reach the promised land of 100," she said, but confirmed she would not be re-signing her contract when it is slated to come up for renewal in January.
Jockell signed a three-year extension for Feast Fests 2011, 2012, and 2013 on Jan. 28, 2011, after several weeks of intense negotiations. "I want to assure everybody," she said, "this does not have to do with contractual disagreements, this does not have to do with any tensions within the event. I have been thrilled with my time here and I am very saddened to leave, but this was entirely my decision."
Head Scouter Jim Dall seemed taken aback by the announcement late Thursday. "We were on good terms with Mrs. Jockell and had been prepared to re-sign her in January to another multi year contract. However, we certainly can respect and understand her decision."
"Mrs. Jockell brought Midwestern bread-basket values to the kitchen in a unique style that will be very hard to emulate without her," said Event Manager William Vanderbilt. "We are incredibly saddened to hear of her departure from our event, but this will serve as a token moment to look back on all the great things she did in her seven Feast Fests--eight by the time she will retire--and this will give us the opportunity to root for her harder than ever when she steps out onto the floor for a spectacular farewell performance this November."
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Patton Signed
-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-In an unusually late-offseason string of signings and transactions, Feast Fest scouters signed their fifth new chef of the offseason, Miranda Morimota Patton on Wednesday.
FF had been courting Patton to revamp Asian influences in the kitchen after Ai Okoworth, the Japanese master, announced his resignation from the event in June.
Morimota Patton (9/3/80) was described by Head Scouter Jim Dall as "a rising chef who will do a masterful job of filling Ai's former role as a Japanese culinary master at our event." Dall revealed that FF had secretly negotiated with Morimota Patton in 2011 but that "negotiations had broken down."
"I am without words right now," Morimota Patton said via Skype. "I have followed Feast Fest for so long, and to be a part of it? I'm so grateful to Jim Dall, Stephanie McOneguew, and everyone who was a part of the scouting team who worked so tirelessly to get this deal done."
Morimota Patton, who is an assistant head chef at a Japanese 5-star in Vancouver, B.C., will make her first Feast Fest appearance on Aug. 31 at the Kitchen Stadium exhibition in--where else?--Tokyo. Morimota Patton, who is Canadian-born but who is of Japanese descent and who trained extensively in Japan, called it "appropriate." "I'm very excited."
The deal's details haven't been disclosed, but it is a one-year contract for $212,244.
-In an unusually late-offseason string of signings and transactions, Feast Fest scouters signed their fifth new chef of the offseason, Miranda Morimota Patton on Wednesday.
FF had been courting Patton to revamp Asian influences in the kitchen after Ai Okoworth, the Japanese master, announced his resignation from the event in June.
Morimota Patton (9/3/80) was described by Head Scouter Jim Dall as "a rising chef who will do a masterful job of filling Ai's former role as a Japanese culinary master at our event." Dall revealed that FF had secretly negotiated with Morimota Patton in 2011 but that "negotiations had broken down."
"I am without words right now," Morimota Patton said via Skype. "I have followed Feast Fest for so long, and to be a part of it? I'm so grateful to Jim Dall, Stephanie McOneguew, and everyone who was a part of the scouting team who worked so tirelessly to get this deal done."
Morimota Patton, who is an assistant head chef at a Japanese 5-star in Vancouver, B.C., will make her first Feast Fest appearance on Aug. 31 at the Kitchen Stadium exhibition in--where else?--Tokyo. Morimota Patton, who is Canadian-born but who is of Japanese descent and who trained extensively in Japan, called it "appropriate." "I'm very excited."
The deal's details haven't been disclosed, but it is a one-year contract for $212,244.
Jahswheich Signs $464K Extension
-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Already signed on through Feast Fest 2013, Alizone Jahswheich avoided having to sign an extension right after Thanksgiving by clearing the matter away Wednesday.
Jahswheich, already signed on for FF 2013 and slated to receive $441,237 this November, signed a two-year extension for $464,118 through FF 2014 and 2015.
The deal was confirmed around 8 p.m. Wednesday through Jahswheich's agent, and confirmed thirty minutes later by Scouter Nevin Wilson. Wilson said the contract had been inked.
Jahswheich turned down a one-year extension for the same amount last week, saying he wanted at least an additional year tacked on. "Now Mr. Jahswheich can go through Feast Fest XXI in 2015 without having to worry about re-inking a deal," the agent said.
Wilson released a statement saying, "Alizone is an eclectic and committed member of our Feast Fest team, one of our international mainstays, and we are thrilled to have secured his presence here beyond just this November." Wilson also stated how Jahswheich's contracts had been murky in the past. "Jahswheich signed all one-year deals from the time he joined in 2009. He signed subsequent one-year deals in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. And some of those negotiation processes were very argumentative. So I believe he had become disillusioned with the process and that he was very pleased to finally slam down a multi-year deal here on good terms today, for the first time in his so far illustrious Feast Fest career."
Jahswheich has racked up 204 NCA points over his four Feast Fests. In January, he won the Most Valuable Chef honor at the Edelyn Cooking Arena exhibition, his first as a Feast Fest chef.
"He ought to have been signed to a multi-year deal before now. He's brilliant," Wilson said. He added, "That was a mistake on our part."
-Already signed on through Feast Fest 2013, Alizone Jahswheich avoided having to sign an extension right after Thanksgiving by clearing the matter away Wednesday.
Jahswheich, already signed on for FF 2013 and slated to receive $441,237 this November, signed a two-year extension for $464,118 through FF 2014 and 2015.
The deal was confirmed around 8 p.m. Wednesday through Jahswheich's agent, and confirmed thirty minutes later by Scouter Nevin Wilson. Wilson said the contract had been inked.
Jahswheich turned down a one-year extension for the same amount last week, saying he wanted at least an additional year tacked on. "Now Mr. Jahswheich can go through Feast Fest XXI in 2015 without having to worry about re-inking a deal," the agent said.
Wilson released a statement saying, "Alizone is an eclectic and committed member of our Feast Fest team, one of our international mainstays, and we are thrilled to have secured his presence here beyond just this November." Wilson also stated how Jahswheich's contracts had been murky in the past. "Jahswheich signed all one-year deals from the time he joined in 2009. He signed subsequent one-year deals in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. And some of those negotiation processes were very argumentative. So I believe he had become disillusioned with the process and that he was very pleased to finally slam down a multi-year deal here on good terms today, for the first time in his so far illustrious Feast Fest career."
Jahswheich has racked up 204 NCA points over his four Feast Fests. In January, he won the Most Valuable Chef honor at the Edelyn Cooking Arena exhibition, his first as a Feast Fest chef.
"He ought to have been signed to a multi-year deal before now. He's brilliant," Wilson said. He added, "That was a mistake on our part."
Beryl Shady's Schedule
-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Here is FF Executive Assistant Beryl Shady's schedule.
TRIP 1
Aug. 14 Los Angeles - Chicago
Aug. 15 Chicago - Phoenix
Aug. 16 Phoenix - Denver
Aug. 17 Las Vegas
Aug. 18 Seattle - Vancouver
Aug. 19 Honolulu
Aug. 20 Maui
Aug. 21 Los Angeles
TRIP 2
Aug. 26 Los Angeles - New York City
Aug. 27 New York City
Aug. 28 New York City
Aug. 29 Travel to Singapore
Aug. 30 Singapore
Aug. 31 Tokyo
Sept. 1 Tokyo
Sept. 2 Los Angeles
TRIP 3
Sept. 7 Los Angeles - San Diego
Sept. 8 San Francisco
Sept. 9 Yosemite N.P.
Sept. 10 Sacramento - Boise
Sept. 11 Milwaukee - Detroit - Toronto
Sept. 12 Toronto
Sept. 13 Toronto
Sept. 14 Travel to London
Sept. 15 London
Sept. 16 London
Sept. 17 Paris
Sept. 18 Paris
Sept. 19 Rome
Sept. 20 Rome
Sept. 21 Oslo
Sept. 22 Amsterdam
Sept. 23 Dubai
Sept. 24 Dubai
Sept. 25 Antananarivo
Sept. 26 Travel to Mumbai
Sept. 27 Mumbai
Sept. 28 Phnom Penh
Sept. 29 Travel to Los Angeles
-Here is FF Executive Assistant Beryl Shady's schedule.
TRIP 1
Aug. 14 Los Angeles - Chicago
Aug. 15 Chicago - Phoenix
Aug. 16 Phoenix - Denver
Aug. 17 Las Vegas
Aug. 18 Seattle - Vancouver
Aug. 19 Honolulu
Aug. 20 Maui
Aug. 21 Los Angeles
TRIP 2
Aug. 26 Los Angeles - New York City
Aug. 27 New York City
Aug. 28 New York City
Aug. 29 Travel to Singapore
Aug. 30 Singapore
Aug. 31 Tokyo
Sept. 1 Tokyo
Sept. 2 Los Angeles
TRIP 3
Sept. 7 Los Angeles - San Diego
Sept. 8 San Francisco
Sept. 9 Yosemite N.P.
Sept. 10 Sacramento - Boise
Sept. 11 Milwaukee - Detroit - Toronto
Sept. 12 Toronto
Sept. 13 Toronto
Sept. 14 Travel to London
Sept. 15 London
Sept. 16 London
Sept. 17 Paris
Sept. 18 Paris
Sept. 19 Rome
Sept. 20 Rome
Sept. 21 Oslo
Sept. 22 Amsterdam
Sept. 23 Dubai
Sept. 24 Dubai
Sept. 25 Antananarivo
Sept. 26 Travel to Mumbai
Sept. 27 Mumbai
Sept. 28 Phnom Penh
Sept. 29 Travel to Los Angeles
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
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
-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
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)