Be Jay-Z, Get Into RAO’S NYC. It’s That Simple.

Dear readers, In the spirit of good taste in all things for which he is known, ELV has taken down the Jay-Z video. He could not, in good conscience, leave an atonal, un-rhythmic, unappetizing, hip hop performance on his site for more than a week without suffering untold derision and contempt.

The video showed rap stars and our favorite bad lieutenant having an easier time getting into Rao’s New York than mere mortals. Luckily, we have the same food here at Rao’s Las Vegas (in Caesars Palace) that anyone can enjoy.

As for the music, well, let’s just say we don’t think The Beatles, Miles Davis, REM, Michael Jackson (R.I.P.), or Fleetwood Mac have anything to worry about.

The Physiology of Taste – by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

One never knows what one might find wandering around the bookshelves of a famous French chef friend. Browsing among hundreds of cookbooks, coffee table food books, books about food history, ideas and technique — ranging from Neapolitan pizza to couscous to the Tsukiji fish market — there it was — tattered, faded, brittle, with a scotch-taped binding and pages that could only be turned with a surgeon’s hand — a first edition of one of the most seminal books in all of western food culture.

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