CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC!
One of the ways a guy knows he’s middle-aged is when he sees a woman walking with her daughter and they both look good to him. And a sure fire way to tell if you’re too old or jaded to worship at a celebrity chef shrine is whether you think basking in some Food Network God’s absentee aura is worth the price of his ruining your meal – with things that have nothing to do with his cooking. Take that chef’s taste in music for example…PLEASE!
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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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.