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Terrin can mix a mojito with the best of ‘em, but bring up the subject of a spicy Sangiovese Rosso or a racy Barbera d’Alba and her eyes light up like a saucy spumante.

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ELV note: Scroll across the video to the 34:31 minute mark (remembering the video time tracks in descending order) to witness us toasting the end of the year in style (and with a stylish Cremant de Alsace from Marche Bacchus) yesterday morning at 6:10 am on Wake Up with the Wagners. Gayola, Oogy WaWa and Happy New Year!

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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Language - Spelling - Phonetic Pronunciation

Afrikaans Gesondheid Ge-sund-hate

Albanian Gëzuar Geh-zoo-ah

Arabic (Egypt) فى صحتك: (literally good luck) Fe sahetek

Armenian (Western) Կէնաձդ Genatzt Azerbaijani Nuş olsun Nush ohlsun

Bosnian Živjeli Zhee-vi-lee

Bulgarian Наздраве Naz-dra-vey

Burmese Aung myin par say Au-ng my-in par say

Catalan Salut Sah-lut

Chamorro (Guam) Biba Bih-bah

Chinese (Mandarin) 干杯
gān bēi Gan bay

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Wine, in moderation, unfolds a man’s brain; a teetotaler rarely possesses great wisdom. – Jewish Proverb

Burgundy is a wonderful thing if you can get some one to buy it for you. – A. J. Liebling

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Lucky for ELV, Jeff Wyatt was in a wonderfully giving mood on Christmas Eve.

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Don’t let the picture fool you….you’ll have to scroll to the 33:55 minute mark on the video to see ELV’s rotund, hirsute self opining on our three best, locally-owned, gourmet food markets in the excitable, exaggerated, examinational, exhaustive, exhibitionary, exclusivist, exhorted, expansive and exalted tones for which he is known!

Happy Holiday shopping from ELV and his staff!

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If you missed us on Channel 3 early this morning, here were (and are) our top 3 shops for last minute gourmet gifts, along with some tasty snaps (above) of Jim, Chemaine and Erica (with a “c”) Jensen hard at work at Village Meat & Wine — our oldest gourmet butcher shop.

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ELV loves public relations people.

He loves it when they beg him for free publicity about their chefs and restaurants, and loves it even more when they “forget” to tell him when key chefs and personnel quit or are fired from their posts.

Such as former Sommelier of the Year Willi Sherer and the mega-talented Megan Romano – who were both shown the door at Mandalay Bay over a month ago. This in the same month she was named Pastry Chef of the Year by a local ‘zine (and after twelve years with the restaurant).

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The Greek Food Festival began last night with a bang and crowds larger than we’ve ever seen there on a Friday night. For three days every September for almost forty years, this festival brings forth the best in homemade (literally) Greek cooking, accompanied by value-priced Greek wines, beers and ouzo (not to mention Metaxa!).

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