We want to like Mario Batali’s restaurants (all three of them in the Venetian). We really do. We try to ignore his less-than-appetizing appearance, celebrity status, high prices, and the overwhelming mediocrity of the food….but sometimes, it’s just hard.
Author: John Curtas
Col. Bill Newsom’s Kentucky Country Ham
Eternity is two people and a ham. – Anonymous
No, we’re not going all David Ross or ChezPim on you — cooking-and-food-foto-wise — but one of the highlights of our eating year is a Col. Bill Newsom’s Country Ham from his smokehouse in Princeton, Kentucky. So we’d thought we’d share this little bit of the primordial/artisanal food world with you, along with the work that goes into it.
The Food Snob’s Dictionary
Even though it was published over a year ago, we just finished The Food Snob’s Dictionary by David Kamp and Marion Rosenfeld (2007 Broadway Books) — given to us this Christmas by Anthony Robert Curtas — The Official Number One Son of ELV — a k a our staff. It’s a fascinating, funny, must-read for any food snob or food snob wannabe worth their fleur de sel.
Just for grins and giggles — and because it seemed like the ultimate food snob thing to do* — we thought we’d point out the glaring omissions, annoyances and mistakes contained therein (along with credit given (Forgiveness Factors) for some of the many noteworthy things also within its pages):