And the correct answer is: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

It is the motto of the United States Postal Service, and appears on the edifice of the main Post Office Building in Manhattan (New York, not Kansas).

It is also featured as a lyric towards the mid-point of this hypnotic/bizarre music video of “O Superman” by performance artist/musician/all around weirdo/Laurie Anderson:

What’s a non-food trivia contest and odd-ball ’80’s electro/techno video doing on a website entitled Eating Las Vegas, you ask?

Hey! We’re ELV! By now you should know to expect the unexpected!

Besides, we now get to chow down with uber-foodie Fred Keiserman, who may bear little resemblance to the person we hoped would win, but will no doubt prove to be a stellar dining companion.

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Without Googling anything (and you are on your honor on this one), can you guess the name of the building in these two pictures, and recite and print verbatim the motto/saying/slogan that adorns its edifice?

First correct answer to both questions in the comments section wins a free restaurant reviewing lunch with ELV, that may or may not be chaperoned by The Food Gal depending upon your:

1) Age;

2) Sex, and;

3) Level of resemblance to either this or this mega-babe.

An out of town winner will receive a voucher, to be redeemed at their convenience, good for the aforementioned prize, whenever they find themselves in ELV’s humble burg.

Do not participate or attempt to participate if you suffer from:

- Allergy or intolerance to certain foods
- Bad breath and foul-smelling gas and stools
- Constipation, diarrhea, sluggish elimination, irregular bowel movements
- Frequent congestion, colds, viruses
- Flatulence or gas and frequent intestinal disorders
- Frequent headaches for no apparent reason
- General aches and pains that migrate from one place to another
- Intolerance to fatty foods
- Low energy; loss of vitality for no apparent reason>
- Lower back pain
- Lowered resistance to infections
- Needing to sleep a long time
- Pain in your liver or gall bladder
- Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), breast soreness, vaginal infections
- Skin – problems, rashes, boils, pimples, acne

As continued or prolonged contact with ELV on one of his infamous five hour lunches can aggravate any one or all of these symptoms.

Contest void where prohibited by law…or common sense.

ELV note: As most of you know, ELV hearts the Big Apple. He lived just outside of it (in Danbury, CT) between 1985-1990, and never tires of its energy and its eateries. Below is a quick travelogue of our four days there last week, concentrating on — what else? — food and restaurants. Some misguided souls (like The Food Gal®) are under the impression there are things to do in New York City other than eat and drink, and for this they have our sympathies.

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Here’s what ELV learned from his taping of Battle __________! at the Food Network studios in New York two days ago. (Of course, we can’t tell you what the secret ingredient was, nor who won, but we can say it was a battle royale, a fight to the finish, with a whole heap of great dishes that had us judges dropping our forks and howling with appreciation.):

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In less than a week, next Tuesday to be exact, ELV will be in New York for the taping of another episode of Iron Chef America.

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In honor of our favorite cuisine, AND the wedding day* of Julia Mandeville and Hugh Alexander Curtas (The Official Number Two Son of ELV), we at ELV thought a little La Marseillaise** was in order:

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* They’re eloping in Taos, New Mexico as we’re writing this.

** A national anthem that kicks “The Star Spangled Banner’s” ass from here to Burgundy, if you ask us, or this guy.

We’ve just learned that Vegas PBS has landed the production of Hubert Keller’s Secrets of a Chef through 2015. Meaning: All production of this entertaining and informative cooking show will now take place at the fancy new digs of KLVX TV, Channel 10 in Las Vegas.

Quite a coup for Keller, for KLVX,  and for our humble burg.

Kudos to Keller…and it means he’ll be even a bigger presence in Las Vegas, which bodes well for lovers of Hubert (of which Eating Las Vegas is one), his cuisine and his DJing skills!

Rock on Hubert! (Continue after the jump to see DJ Frenchie French spinnin’ his heart out.)

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June 4, 2010 Poolside at the M Resort.

All for a good cause: the students of Bishop Gorman High School…and the tasting of Australian food and wines!

See the attached pdf document for more details.

See ya there, mate!

Passport 2010 Info Sheet

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Geno Bernardo has all the fun.

Most hard-working professional chefs toil and sweat and slave in front of 300 degree stoves for hours at a time, battling fatigue, thirst, hangovers, unruly line cooks and unreasonable patrons.

Geno gets to cavort with mega-babes, play the bongos, dance on the job (with the aforementioned mega-babes), and collect accolades for figuring out how to get women to come to his restaurant on Sunday afternoons in their underwear.

Most young chefs and chef-wannabes look at the Food Network stars with envy and admiration.

If we were them, we’d plan our career path around whatever deal Geno made with the (horny) devil.

He still cooks mind you (some of the best Italian food in town), but cooking for the public is….like….hard and shit…compared to motorboating your way through the mammaries…so you’ve got to hand it to the guy for figuring out how to combine business with pleasure.

All those young, eager, forward-looking chefs out there should be grateful to you (the straight male ones anyway), for giving them something to look forward to that doesn’t involve badly burned forearms and multiple stays in rehab.

We appreciated the eggs fonduta (with a silky, eggy cheese sauce), the hand-made frittatas (that come with a side of tatas), the cheese selection, the dessert selection, the pastas, the salads, all the fun and the fishnets.

Thanks Geno, for thinking up High Society at NOVE, so we now have someplace to go on a slow Sunday, for that coffee-shot concoction that made us feel drunk and wired for the rest of the day, and for the surprisingly good “keg” wine.

But most of all….

…thanks for the mammaries.

NOVE

In the Palms Hotel and Casino

4321 West Flamingo Road

Las Vegas, NV 89103

702.942.6800

www.novelasvegas.com