Eating Las Vegas note: We just jumped off the plane from New York, after unexpectedly taping two* Iron Chef America episodes, and are filled with melancholy for more than one reason, morosely making us manufacture another malcontent-ed haiku:

ELV returns

From Iron Chef adventure(s)

To depressed home turf

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* Only one was scheduled. The crazy, delicious details of how we came to judge another episode will be provided in a post later this week.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. – Henry David Thoreau