The James Beard Foundation’s Taste America Las Vegas event will come to the High Mojave Desert on October 24-25. ELV considers this a very good, very prestigious thing for our humble burg.
The weekend will feature JBF award winners at one-of-a-kind events including hosted dinners, cooking demonstrations, educational panels and more. ELV will be in attendance at everything and everywhere that weekend, even if it means ELV will have to clone himself.
The events will take place at Bellagio, Caesars Palace, MGM Grand, Palms Place, The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino, The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and Wynn Las Vegas Resort & Country Club. ELV is ecstatic that Circus Circus, The Riv, The Trop, The Sahara and Slots O’ Fun were never seriously considered for event venues.
Saturday Night’s Taste America Gala hosted by The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino will feature a culinary road trip highlighting James Beard Foundation Award-winning chefs from around the country. By attending this gala, you will be saved the time and expense of said road trip, and still be able to taste greatest, most innovative food. In such a way has the JBF reduced the carbon footprint required to be become a true, national, educated epicurean. ELV is appreciative of this fact since ELV’s carbon footprint in becoming one is roughly the size of Montana
Specific event information will be available at jbftasteamerica.com at the end of August.
The James Beard Foundation is dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and nurturing America’s culinary heritage and diversity in order to elevate the appreciation of our culinary excellence. A cookbook author and teacher with an encyclopedic knowledge about food, James Beard, who died in 1985, was a champion of American cuisine. He helped educate and mentor generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. Although there is no plaque on the wall of the Beard House recognizing the fact (as there should be), JB also taught ELV how to cook (along with Jaques Pepin, Pierre Franey, Craig Claiborne and Julia Child) back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, when ELV routinely devoured his cookbooks…
Today, the Beard Foundation continues in the same spirit by administering a number of diverse programs that include educational initiatives, food industry awards, scholarships to culinary schools, and publications, and by maintaining the historic James Beard House in New York City’s Greenwich Village as a “performance space” for visiting chefs. For more information, go to www.jamesbeard.org.
Many local chefs, including Michael and Wendy Jordan, Paul Bartolotta, Rick Moonen, Anthony Amoroso, David Werly, Claude Escamilla, Julian Serrano, Robert Moore, Matthew Silverman, et al have been honored by cooking dinner in the historic-but-really-cramped space of Beard’s ground floor kitchen. Expect all of them to be in attendance along with dozens of chefs, authors, experts and food celebs. The staff at ELV expects the event(s) to be a pinch more educational and high brow than Bon Appetit’s Uncork’d or other food and wine weekends, but no less tasty.
Stay tuned for future details.
This has nothing to do the article, But you have to read today’s favorite “worst food section in america” written by idoits. Thanks to green spun media for letting Heidi Knapp Rinella write a cover story on ” what restaurant owners are doing in this trying economy” She starts the front page story about a restaurant called Paymon’s meiterranean cafe & lounge and what they are doing to broaden their market. So I gather when you turn to the health report two pages later and see that same restaurant reveived a C grade for foods held at improper temperatures the paper is helping to do the opposite!!
James Beard has been dead *that* many years? It doesn’t seem possible, especially since he’s as much of a presence now (if not more) than he was in his heyday. What an impact he made on the culinary world.
Although I will always love Julia more!
Irene