ELV wants to know: What were all you forty-something folks reading 20-25 years ago when it came to naming your female offspring?

Ashleys are more prominent around these here parts than chefs with disgusting tattoos.

Not that ELV minds, mind you. Especially when being seated by Ashley at Jaleo:

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…or by Ashley at Simon:

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In fact, if every hostess looked like either Ashley or Ashley, ELV would be equally pleased.

Come to think of it, it wouldn’t matter to us if their names were Bertha and Hortense.

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ELV thought France was a country. Silly us.

We at ELV always thought it meant: Land of the Franks, so how refreshing to discover it’s also a name…of a person…and a hot hostess to boot!

France (the hostess, not the country) fabulously facilitates feasting with friend Nicole, furthering your foodie fortunes at this fashionable funhouse of fantastic fare.

On featuring these findings, we are far from flippant.