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First came the KNPR interview (to be broadcast next week), then came the photo op, and finally, Slapsie Maxie figured chowing down on a dozen plates from the Greenland Korean Market’s new food court would be just what America’s most acclaimed chef would be in the mood for.

And so he was.

And thus were a multitude of plates were rendered, and laid before him.

And lo did he express thanks, and consume them with relish.

And verily did he proclaim the pepper chicken too laden with starch, and the kal-bi and cake of mung bean to be of the highest quality.

Words of praise were given and prayers answered and thus did it come to pass that hunger was abated.

And it was good.

So sayeth Thomas The Great.

We at ELV know most of you have better things to do on a Friday morning (play video poker, nurse a hangover, contemplate great architecture, etc…) than to sit glued to a radio listening to intellectual-and-digestively-stimulating banter about food and restaurants. Therefore, as a public service, we provide this link to yesterday’s State Of Nevada program on KNPR.

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If you tuned in yesterday to News 88.9 FM KNPR’s State Of Nevada, you heard the Toothsome Twosome:

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Here is the link to yesterday’s State Of Nevada program on Nevada Public Radio featuring interviews with everyone’s-favorite-celebrity-journalist Robin Leach, “intuitive forager” Kerry Clasby, our Top Five Pet Restaurant Peeves, and yet another installment of everyone’s favorite rapid fire feature of restaurant fulminations: Eat It Or Beat It!

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We don’t know what’s more impressive: the fact that Emmy Award-winning Denise Valdez squeezed four restaurants (and chefs) into segment lasting less than two minutes, or that she captured uber-absentee chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten right here in our humble burg. (We guarantee he wasn’t here for long.)

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Here is the link to last Friday’s State Of Nevada program, featuring the all-seeing-and-all-knowing-uber-prescient-master-of-the-airwaves ELV (& Max Jacobson) on News 88.9 FM KNPR - Nevada Public Radio.

Stick around til the end of the show and you’ll hear to me ‘n Max tip toe our way around the proper pronunciation of fuh-kim-long, so as not to offend the FCC censors…or Flo Rogers.

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PIERRE GAGNAIRE COMES TO VEGAS AND HOPES NO ONE THINKS HE’S A PIZZA MAN

On December 4, 2009, Pierre Gagnaire (gahn-Yair) will be the third renowned French chef in four years to open his first American restaurant in Las Vegas. Twist by Pierre Gagnaire in the Mandarin Oriental will join miX by Alain Ducasse, and restaurants Joel Robuchon and Guy Savoy among the classified growths of Las Vegas dining, so we reached him for a friendly Q & A about the Vegas-French Connection, and what we can expect from this master of avant-garde cuisine.

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Click here to hear last Friday’s premier of The John & Max Radio Restaurant Show on News 88.9 FM KNPR - Nevada Public Radio’s State Of Nevada.

The show had everything:

Max pontificating;

Me masticating (on public radio no less!);

Tom Sietsema ruminating;

Elizabeth Blau illuminating;

Max trashing Mother’s Korean Grill, and;

Da bodda us being more than a bit lukewarm on the menu at Garfield’s.

The good news: we’ll be doing show #2 on Friday, October 9th…assuming Max and I haven’t knifed one another before then.

So many restaurants, so little time…

Yes food fans, yours truly and his staff are up at the crack of dawn today because this is what the day has in store for them:

- Polish and record radio script for KNPR-Nevada Public Radio (this week’s topic: getting busted at Battista’s and pummeled by Paymon);

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Here’s the video:

And here’s the apoplectic response from various downtown denizens denying that Luv-It-Custard is located in the neighborhood where you’re most likely to see a drug bust….or a guy without any pants on.

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