Author: John Curtas

You heard it here first – James Beard Foundation coming to Las Vegas

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.

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A Smokin’ Good Doughnut

Do you suffer from guilt by caloric association? Do you harbor lust in your gut for some secret food that you only eat when you’re feeling thin, or on those rare occasions when you can get into your clothes without pushing the limits of Newtonian physics and a forklift? Perhaps you like to reward yourself when you’ve gone light on dinner for a few days, or ran an extra mile that morning, or finally decided you look good in a 52 short. Yes when those times come around, and that forbidden craving hits you, there’s just one thing to do. As Oscar Wilde put it: the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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CAJUN BBQ SHACK

RAGIN’ CAJUN

Ask and you shall receive. And so ELV did, from a number of KNPR listeners recommending places we should try and review. Dangerous business this, as ELV knows not from whence your motivation comes. Is it validation for your own tastes you seek? Or perhaps a little game of mock the critic and watch him demean himself, and get heartburn to boot!

It was thoughts such as these that occupied me as we crept way down Las Vegas Boulevard South to a place near the South Point Casino (a side of town where gourmands fear to tread, and where you’ll find ELV as often as you will at a bowling alley.) But promises had been made and gauntlets thrown; so follow through we must.

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