Category: Events

Summerlin 20th Birthday Cake Competition

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Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but ELV hates cakes. Angel food cake, anniversary cakes, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, chocolate cake, sponge cake (aka genoise), …he hates them all almost as much as he hates cupcakes. There’s just something about the fluffy, generic, air-infused quality of cooked cake batter that puts him off, and reminds him of all the crappy, Betty Crocker cakes that were forced upon him as a child. Exceptions are made for cakes soaked in rhum, pound cakes and Boston cream pie (which is really two cakes separated by custard).*

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ELV Taking Break, Food World Mourns

Courtesy of the good folks of Stella Artois beer, your favorite food blogger/restaurant reviewer/lawyer-at-law will be flying to Boston (Massachusetts, not Kentucky) today to cover the finals of the Stella Artois Draught Masters contest being held there on Friday

As a result, we won’t be posting anything until early next week, but, as always, feel free to follow us @eatinglasvegas on Twitter or John Curtas on Facebook, if you need your daily ELV fix. (Hint: we post more on FB than we do on Twitter.)

Stella Artois and Union Oyster House here we come!

America’s Best Premiers Next Week on Food Network

ELV note: America’s Best hits the airwaves and ether next Monday night and will broadcast each of its four episodes, in succession, on the following three evenings.”Why,” you are asking yourself right about now, “is ELV taking such a keen interest in a Food Network premier?” Well, it just so happens that the World’s Greatest Restaurant Critic* will be featured among the many talking heads/food writers/gourmands/chefs/mixologists/raconteurs who will be weighing in on everything from what makes a perfect steak, to where you can find the best comfort food in America.

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