This week we comment on “the next big thing” in how America eats (or will be eating) — according to the presenters and attendees at the World’s Of Flavor Mediterranean Food Odyssey at the Culinary Institue Of America at Greystone in Napa Valley. ELV was truly in Food Nerd Heaven for three days, as you can hear about by clicking here. From our perch at the symposium, it looks like we’re about to go Back To The Future, when it comes to what we eat….
Category: Food
Guy Fieri At UNLV’s Chef-Artist Series
This year’s event featured one of UNLV’s own — Food Network Star Guy Fieri — who returned to host and showcase the efforts of numerous UNLV Hotel School students as they strutted their stuff to an appreciative crowd of Las Vegas’s finest and foodiest movers and shakers.
The point of this yearly soiree — introduced and overseen by UNLV professor Dr. Pat Moreo — is to teach and display what our University’s finest have learned about the “art” of fine food and service.
All of this took place a month ago, but it happened in the midst of the Best Food Week Ever for Las Vegas, so ELV’s staff is just now getting around to posting the snaps. As you’ll see from the pics, the event was top drawer, thanks in no small part to Fieri — who was a good sport as he spent the day working with chefs and servers alike; helping everything to gel — just like his hair.
Grace In Asia
ELV Readers: One of our favorite food writers: Grace “It’s Filipino not Philipino!” Bascos, is touring Asia with her family for three weeks. Like all good food writers, she loves to write about what she’s eating; and like all foodies, we can’t wait to read about it….Here is her first installment (reading about sour, smelly feet was never more fun):
Las Vegas to Malaysia
By Grace Bascos
I should preface this by saying that I haven’t traveled out of the
country (save for Canada and pharmy binges in Tijuana) since I was
about 12, when I went to the Philippines with my mother. And so I
embarked on the Asia Eating Tour 2008 (aka the Yellow Tour) with a
quick stop in Hong Kong (more on that later) before heading to Kota
Kinabalu, Malaysia.