THE QUARTERFINALS!!

Thank-you SO MUCH to all the Supper Club members who have voted online for me, Chef Ginny! I am humbled by your show of support. With your dedicated daily (free) voting and purchased votes via donations to the James Beard Foundation--I placed first in my group and am now moving to the QUARTERFINALS starting TODAY, July 24th, at 10am! HURRAY, one hurdle down. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!

By making #1 in the group round, we have beat out literally thousands of contestants across the nation, making my standing in the 1% of all contestants! So let's play again and see if we can do the same in the quarterfinals!

NEXT STEPS:

QUARTERFINALS start 7/24 (TODAY!) and end 8/3. Please start voting for me as all the votes are cumulative in this two-week period, so your help is much needed and appreciated. You can do that daily HERE All my previous votes are wiped clean and I am competing against a new group of 1st-placers from across the country like myself. It will be two weeks of voting, so I will send updates when we send our regular menus and order reminders.

HOW'S IT ALL GOING TO END?

After the QUARTERFINALS, the winners of those rounds will compete in the:

• SEMIFINALS (8/4 to 8/10)

• FINALS (8/11 to 8/17)

In each of these rounds, the votes are reset and each competitor is ranked according to public voting. Placing #1 in each round is required to move to the next round, of course.

I'm so very grateful and humbled by all the support to date. I hope we can all play along and have a good time seeing if we can keep up in the game! Please vote now EARLY AND OFTEN HERE