Forget the films, what about the food? Master chef Wolfgang Puck will once again take up kitchen duty for the Academy Awards this year, taking responsibility for the post-Oscars Governors Ball. If serving a multi-course meal to 1,600 guests doesn’t sound like a tough assignment, consider this:

The kitchen staff will have to wrap 2,750 dates in bacon, boil 6,000 chestnut tortellini, de-vein 7,500 shrimp and shuck 1,300 farmed oysters. And that’s just for a handful of the nearly four dozen separate dishes that Puck’s chefs will hand off to the waiters.

Read more on the labor of love for Puck and his staff, or just spend your time staring at food like we ended up doing.

Photos: Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles Times

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    why the hell did we not hire wolfgang puck to make the food for the oscar party what the f*ck

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