Jodi Summit
BREITUNG TOWNSHIP- It was the end of an era as master booyah chef Nick Tekautz was honored for his 32 years, or perhaps it was 36 years, of chef service for the annual Vermilion Range Old Settlers Picnic on Saturday.
Tekautz has now trained in a younger generation of Tekautzes and Tormas to take over the supervision of the hundreds of gallons of meat-and-vegetable stew prepared each year.
Tekautz wasn’t quite sure how many years he had been in charge, after being asked by his father-in-law Herb Lamppa to take over for “just one year” when the committee needed a new head cook.