ELV has just learned that one of our favorite chefs — Marc Poidevin — is leaving the Wynn/Encore fold to move back to New York.
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VEGAS UNCORK’D (Part Trois) – Thoughts, Reflections, and (even more) Tasty Snaps
For a different (and more food-focused) take on last weekend’s Vegas Uncork’d Presented by Bon Appetit, click here to read uber-food-writer David Ross’s report on the festivities for www.egullet.org.
CULINARY CONVERSATIONS – FARM-TO-TABLE
Observation: As with The French Connection discussion of the day before, a large audience showed up to hear Edmund Wong, Bradley Ogden, Rick (Fishboy) Moonen and Paul Bartolotta debate the changes in the American diet and restaurant cooking brought about by the rise of organic farming, sustainable fisheries, and the farm-to-table movement. Wong held his own with the superstars on the panel, as everything from the plague of Chilean Sea Bass to efforts of Las Vegas chefs to source local herbs and produce was discussed.
Criticism: Americans have the worst eating habits on earth.
ELV Highlight: Being able to get a word in edgewise between Paul B. and Rick M.
Click here to read this week’s NYTimes article on the same subject.
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VEGAS UNCORK’D (Part Deux) – Thoughts, Reflections, and (even more) Tasty Snaps
PRIVATE TASTING WITH ALAIN DUCASSE @ miX
If you want to turn any chef, restaurateur, or foodie in the world green with envy, try telling them you just spent the afternoon tasting new dishes at miX atop Thehotel at THE Mandalay Bay with Alain Ducasse — the only chef in the world with twelve Michelin stars.
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