If you’re a regular reader of Eating Las Vegas (and let’s face it who isn’t?), you may have noticed that his articles/postings have become less frequent over the past six weeks. For those of you wondering why, we have a pop quiz.
The reason ELV isn’t writing as much on his Web site is because [check one]:
People ask you for criticism, but what they want is praise. – W. Somerset Maughm
Exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much, and had nothing to think about. – George Santayana
That old English saying: After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. – Thomas Cogan, Haven of Health (1588)
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better…A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. - Calvin Trillin
And the swine….is unclean to you. Of their flesh you shall not eat. – Leviticus 11 : 7-8
Bullshit. – ELV
Only a stomach that rarely feels hunger scorns common food. – Horace (c. 30 B.C.)
Food snobs are merely people who covet expensive things. Their tastes are influenced by hearsay, not by their own judgment. They do not know that bean curd tastes better than bird’s next , and seaweed, unless it is of the best quality, does not compare with bamboo shoots. – Yuan Mei, The Menu (1797)
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Chicago is not the most corrupt city in America — it’s the most theatrically corrupt. – Studs Terkel
Chicago is an October sort of city even in Spring. – Nelson Algren as quoted by George F. Will
It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches an roots supple them with firewood. the olive tree is the peasant’s all-in-all. – Fredrika Bremer
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palms, the gold bead, the bearded heroes,, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers — all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent smell of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. – Lawrence Durrell
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.
