When Audrey Saunders’ cocktail mecca Pegu Club lost the James Beard Foundation’s inaugural award for Outstanding Bar Program Monday night to ex-employee Jim Meehan’s PDT, the snub left Saunders stewing. “She was shocked,” said a spy. “She stormed out, went backstage and was bitching about it.” Making for even more drama at Avery Fisher Hall, “One attendee fainted in the middle of dinner, hit her head on the marble floor, was bleeding, and an ambulance had to come.” Jacques Pepin was seen toasting Wolfgang Puck, the night’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner by personally slicing and hand-feeding him charcuterie. Saunders, presumably still steaming mad, didn’t return calls.