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“We had to rent the tables and the chairs for the Beard House to do a dinner there. It kind of pre-dates what they do every day now… We were putting the finishing touches on everything and, all of a sudden, the ceiling fell in! Like a big piece of sheetrock just [makes crashing sound]! …Pretty much the maitre ds [all] got wiped out and we called Payard and so they sent us maitre ds for the evening.” — Beard nominee for Outstanding Chef Gary Danko, discussing an event in the mid-1980s at the James Beard House, back when Danko was still a chef at Chateau Souverain in Sonoma County. [Feast]
