2 posts tagged “las vegas”

Dr. David Kessler, former head of the FDA knows what it takes to make us all obese -- sugar, salt and fat.  Jonathan Gold gives us his latest favorite restaurant to try. And if you know the password you can get into some LA area speakeasies says Lesley Balla.  Connie Alvarez takes us along with a group of friends who infiltrate straight bars and turn them gay for a night.  Vodka has taken hold of the US and the Smirnovs have something to do with it according to author Linda Himelstein.  When there's a drought in Las Vegas Patricia Mulroy, manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, has to figure out how to conserve. And Leah DiBernardo is putting gardening into the ciriculum in Temecula Valley schools. Plus Laura Avery celebrates the arrival of stone fruit -- peaches, apricots and nectarines.

In the Bacon is God food category:  Yesterday at the LG Celebrity Chef Kitchen at NATPE, a chef made Bacon Ice Cream with dried ice.  It was also carbonated.  Carbonated Bacon Ice Cream.  Very strange.  Did I eat it all? Of course!  It was made by Richard Blais of Top Chef and Iron Chef fame.

Read about the Bacon Explosion in the New York Times.