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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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In case you’re not hanging on every word of every minute of every broadcast of Nevada Public Radio (and you know you should be!), Eating Las Vegas,  hereby provides, as a public service, a link to Yesterday’s State Of Nevada program, featuring:

> Interviews with Guy and Franck Savoy and;

> Steve Schirripa (Bobby Baccala on The Sopranos);

> Our Top and Bottom Five Food Movies of all time;

> Eat It Or Beat It reviews covering Hofbrauhaus, Cathay House, and Battista’s Hole in the Wall, and;

> A discussion about Restaurant Guy Savoy, and what it has meant to Vegas’s restaurant culture.

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Here is the on-line link to Desert Companion magazine: http://issuu.com/philatknpr/docs/desert_companion_2009nov;

Where you can read all about our fifth annual restaurant awards for News 88.9 FM KNPR-Nevada Public Radio.

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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.

Tune in tomorrow morning food fans, at 9:00 am, on News 88.9 FM KNPR’s State Of Nevada (or listen in at www.knpr.org) for more delightful dish from the disputatious dining divas known John & Max, as we discuss, debate, and dissect (for your delectation) such diverse, delicious delectables as:

> Fine wine times and the changing Las Vegas culture in all things grapey with Master Sommelier/winemaker Kevin Vogt;

> The beginnings and growth of the Slow Food movement in Southern Nevada;

> Uber-media guy Steve Freiss on how Las Vegas hotels are blowing a big marketing opportunity surrounding this season of Top Chef Las Vegas;

> Our first Bottom Five: The Worst of the Worst Fast Food Entrees in America; followed by;

> Eat It Or Beat It: featuring formidable food fights over either fabulous favorites or flagrantly flaccid food flops.

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Click here to hear me and Maxie pummel each other like bad bread dough on this morning’s State Of Nevada.

Also featured:

> S. Irene Virbila (restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times) on why Italian restaurants are so bad;

> Elizabeth Muto on the good works (and fundraiser tonight at M Resort) of the Epicurean Charitable Foundation;

> Our Top 5 Vegas burgers;

> Downtown throwdown, and;

> Eat It Or Beat It featuring: Crazy Pita, FIRST Food and Bar, and Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza.