New CrabFest chef chosen after Graham Kerr of ‘Galloping Gourmet’ exits due to illness in family
Published 12:01 am Tuesday, September 22, 2015
PORT ANGELES — Organizers of the 14th Annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival have chosen a new chef to replace headliner Graham Kerr.
Scott Nagel, CrabFest organizer, announced that Garrett Schack, executive chef of Vista 18 Restaurant in Victoria, B.C., has been brought on to replace Kerr.
“Garrett has been with us before and is outstanding,” Nagel said in an email.
Well-known television chef Graham Kerr, 81, known for his “Galloping Gourmet” show in the 1970s, announced last week that he must bow out of the annual festival at City Pier in Port Angeles, which is scheduled for Oct. 9 through 11.
Kerr has been a part of the CrabFest for six years, said Nagel, but there is an illness in the famed television chef’s family, and he will not participate this year.
Schack did culinary stints in Fredricton, New Brunswick, Southeast Asia and Australia before joining Vista 18 in 2007.
Nagel said he hopes to have Kerr return in a future year and that his absence from CrabFest is only temporary.
