FOOD FOR THOUGHT

ELV note: We recorded this at KNPR in December, 2004, and you can listen to us perform the script in the mellifluous, whimsical and melancholy tones for which we were known by clicking on the link below. Happy New Year 2012!

You’re Toast!

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Happy New Year, Great Saturnalia, Season’s Greetings or Yumpin’ Yule– however you celebrate the shortest days of the year, I’m sure food (and especially drink), has a lot to do with it. And since all holiday celebrations begin or end with a toast, I thought some information about how all that clinking of glasses came about, might be fun, and provide some good conversation fodder should you find yourself trapped behind a punchbowl with nothing witty to say.

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As a prelude to this year’s Thanksgiving, ELV’s staff thought a trip down memory lane was in order. More specifically, a return to a few commentaries he did on Nevada Public radio about his favorite holiday….including not one, not two, but THREE recipes for the world’s greatest bean dish — featured for years on News 88.9 FM KNPR-Nevada Public Radio, and now brought to the readers of Eating Las Vegas for your shared enjoyment and delectation. ELV promises you, if you make them once, your Thanksgiving table will never again be without this sweet, savory and sour treatment of these luscious legumes.

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People tend to forget that Mandalay Bay began as a rival to the Bellagio and the Venetian. When it opened in 1999, Circus Entertainment (or whatever the corporation was called then) intended it to be as upscale as anyplace in town.

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Someone once described Argentinians as: “A bunch of Italians who speak  Spanish, who think like Germans, wish they were British and act like the French.” (or something like that)

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Joël Robuchon’s coming to Vegas in 2005, was, according to then-Gourmet magazine’s then-editor Ruth Reichl “…the single most important event in American gastronomy in the past 50 years.” ELV obviously agreed and devoted two commentaries/reviews (on Sept. 22 and 29, 2005) to his restaurants, that you can listen to by clicking here and here, if you want to hear about the event in the mellifluous, sonorous, sententious and senatorial tones for which he was known.

Since ELV and News 88.9 FM KNPR-Nevada Public Radio are no longer going steady, our staff thought it time to haul out some time worn and treasured tunes, some golden oldies, some musty, dusty discs if you desire, to give you a taste and some sounds of the way we were in our humble burg, way back in the day.

Here is our script and the audio from our very first review of Rosemary’s, right after it opened in August, 1999. Click on the Real Audio link to listen to the mellifluous tones of ELV – for which he was known — and try not to get a major case of the warm fuzzies.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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Click here to hear last Friday’s broadcast on Nevada Public Radio where you-know-who and Slapsie Maxie play patty cake with Barbara Fairchild over her new cookbook — that might be the last word in dessert cookbooks — then take out the knives with another installment of Eat It Or Beat It, before putting down the cutlery long enough to review Vegas’ year in food, and name our top meals and dishes of the year and then discuss the best and worst trends of 2010, and what’s ahead for 2011 . (Whew!)

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