Category: Zines

Authentic (and cheap) Ethnic Eats

This month’s DESERT COMPANION magazine hit the shelves Friday. The cover story (by a certain food writer we all know and love) explores the world of bargain-priced, authentic cuisines available all over the Las Vegas Valley. Here is a reprint of the article for those of you who aren’t members of Nevada Public Radio (shame on you), or haven’t yet cruised by Whole Foods for your copy. Click here to see a PDF of the article in its original format (available later this month), or continue reading for a (slightly revised) version of the same text.

Great Food for Less

Over half of our food dollars go to eating out in restaurants, and you may have noticed lately that those dollars aren’t stretching quite as far as they used to. Along with the explosion of top chefs, high-end design, Michelin-starred fabulousness, and world-class food, have come prices that will curdle your cream and curl your hair. So this might be the perfect time to explore the vast array of serious ethnic eats all over the Las Vegas Valley, that deliver serious bang for the buck, and give an educational peek into some of the world’s great ethnic eats.

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Power lunching Vegas-style

Faster than a speeding paella! More powerful than a locavore! Able to leap small frog legs in a single bound! (Look, up in the Las Vegas Business Press —  in an article in the current issue by Valerie Miller —  It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s ELV!)

 http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2008/08/26/business_life/iq_23419153.txt

…Yes it’s ELV … strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal carnivores!  ELV … who can change the course of mighty rivers (of good wine by drinking it), bend steak in his bare hands, and who, disguised as John Curtas, mild-mannered attorney for a great international law firm (Armstrong Teasdale), fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and a great Caesar’s Salad!

Actually, we were interviewed for the article about the top power-lunching/deal making restaurants in town. And lest you think ELV endorses Starbuck’s, please be advised (ELV loves sounding like a lawyer) that my occasional morning meeting there should not, under any circumstances, be interpreted as me actually liking the pathetic pastries and bitter brews of those franchises….

And BTW: that handsome devil in the picture with me is my partner, uber-attorney Bruce Leslie. Truth be told, he really was doing a deal during the photo shoot, whilst yours truly was working on a KNPR script.

Esquire Magazine’s Top 20 Steaks + Unnatural thoughts on the Wagyu

We at ELV are omnivores in the purest sense of the word. But our time as beef eaters may be coming to an end, if the soothsayers at Esquire Magazine (among them our pal John Mariani) are to be believed.

And no matter what your opinion of meat eating — this article by Tom Junod (in the current issue) will make you reconsider what you think about consuming beef cattle — especially the super premium ones.* In it, Junod compares the funkiness of an aged, American Wagyu porterhouse to a French whore’s armpit.

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