Trying Tenderness (with a dose of humility) in Vegas

Once again, Eating Las Vegas has beaten the New York Times to the punch.

In case you missed it, or don’t subscribe to the Times, click here to read today’s article on Pierre Gagnaire’s opening in Vegas.

And click here to read ELV’s original, exclusive interview with PG in John Mariani’s blog: The Virtual Gourmet, published this past Saturday.

Point of pride: ELV thinks he may have been the first American food writer to obtain an interview with Gagnaire, and even if he wasn’t, it was a good get, as they say in the p.r. biz.

Cutting edge, investigative, up to date, always on top and never in doubt*….yup, that’s ELV!

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* Yup, we’ve been taking lessons from Charlie “Mr. Humility” Trotter.

EMERIL’S FISH HOUSE

Emeril Lagasse is one of the great guys of food.

A true mensch.

He can be single-handedly credited with popularizing food with the post baby-boom generation, inventing the Food Network, and making gastronomic passion, the honing of kitchen skills, and the ability to wax poetic about chanterelles and farmstead cheeses, popular with heterosexual men.

Yeah, that’s what we credit Lagasse with the most: Making gastronomy safe for straight guys.

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