Category: Events

Best Food Week Ever – Part Four – UNLV Panel Discussion

Sitting on the panel at UNLV at the James Beard Foundation’s Taste America event with Mitchell Davis, Dr. Pat Moreo, Alan (The Hitman) Richman, Jeffery (The Man Who Ate Everything) Steingarten, and Chef Paul Bartolotta, was a thrill for ELV. Even though he tried to act with the insouciance and hyper-critical persona for which he is known, he could barely disguise how happy he was to be in the same company with these leading lights of American gastronomy.

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VALENTINO

As an intermezzo between commentaries on the JBF events, ELV thought we’d offer up some tasty snaps of Luciano Pellegrini’s menu from last Friday night’s special dinner. Since we didn’t make it to Valentino in the Venetian that night (as we were enjoying the immensely flavorful and creative stylings of Carlos Buscaglia and Fabio Trabocchi at Fiamma)…one must ask: How could ELV be in two places at once?

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