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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ABC News: Nightline’s ‘Iron Chef’ Secrets Revealed

In case you missed it in THE BA FOODIST, or don’t stay up to the wee hours, ABC’s Nightline did a story last week on the behind the scenes”secrets” of Iron Chef America. Click here to read and see the story, and read further to discover a couple of “secrets” from the episode judged by ELV.

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Mr. Moonen launches a book

Or rather, we should say that Rick Moonen (along with co-author Roy Finamore) has written and published the seafood cookbook for home cooks in America. As Rick is fond of saying, just ten years ago (even less), the number of practical cookbooks for fish and shellfish cooking was practically non-existent.

In the past, well-known chef’s and famous restaurant’s fish cookbooks were about as practical for the home cook as a duck press.

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