Best Food Week Ever

Today begins Las Vegas’s biggest and best food week ever….at least in terms of national and international exposure for the chefs and restaurants of our town. Tonight from 6-9 PM is the Star Chefs – Rising Chefs Revue at Green Valley Ranch. Star Chefs is an organization dedicated to educating and promoting young kitchen talent throughout America, and deserves our gratitude for directing attention to the hardworking guys and gals who actually cook the food we enjoy in notable restaurants throughout the U.S. of A. — not their bosses, who are usually on airplanes or in board meetings.

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James Beard Foundation TasteAmerica Panelists Announced

From Hot Buffets to Haute Cuisine: Defining an American Food City and the Culinary Transformation of Las Vegas

On October 25th, as part of the JBF’s TasteAmerica event in Las Vegas, a panel discussion will take place at UNLV, featuring two of the most notable, honored and cranky food journalists of our time. Be there to watch Alan (The Hitman) Richman trade ego blows with Jeffery (The Man Who Ate Everything) Steingarten, while Elizabeth Blau, ELV and a chef to be named later observe with detached bemusement…and try to get a word in edgewise.

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