When ELV was but a mere sprout, his father would take his family (four siblings plus Marcella Ruth Schroader Curtas — D.O.B. 8.10.24 — The Official Mother Of ELV) to a restaurant in Orlando, Florida (as opposed to Orlando, New Hampshire) called Ronnie’s.
Ronnie’s represented a genre of restaurant that has gone the way of the Greek diner and the mom and pop soda fountain — the huge, Florida Jewish deli.
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Last night, at the Stirling Club, to thunderous applause and world-wide acclaim, ELV beat Clark Country Commissioner Lawrence Weekly and The Morning Zoo’s Chet Buchanan in a cooking contest. Some may argue that his victory was the cooking equivalent of this guy beating us in a footrace, but victory was hard-earned and sweet nonetheless.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
June 19th marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of Rosemary’s. Geez Louise time flies! Can it be a decade since Michael and Wendy Jordan broke free of their Emeril bonds and struck out on their own?
Does anyone remember that the odds of them succeeding were like 100 to 1 to against?