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The 46th Pillsbury Bake-Off rolls into town Saturday evening, with media seminars on Sunday and the big event Monday at Aria at CityCenter. But unless you’re a participant, a member of the media or a registered blogger, you can’t attend.
Let’s face it; people who participate in cooking competitions tend to be pretty intense, traveling many miles and endlessly refining recipes and technique to ensure that their chili — or barbecue, or burger, or sandwich, or pasta, or dessert, or bacon — is the best in the land.
If you religiously check the dates on all of your grocery products and throw out anything that’s past that magic number on the calendar, we may have news for you.
Wine: Evohe Garnacha
When Edith F. Gurdzynski contacted me in search of a good pasticchio served locally, I had to resist the temptation to point out that the Greek Food Festival is always a good source, because the good people of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church prepare and serve a stellar version there. But since the festival is held only once a year, in the early fall, I figured Gurdzynski wouldn’t want to wait that long. Luckily, three of her fellow Taste of the Town readers came to the rescue.
The new Settebello location, in Village Square at Sahara Avenue and Fort Apache Road, opened last month.
It sounds like an oxymoron, the jumbo shrimp of the holiday-treat world: Leftover Halloween candy.
It’s going to be a beery weekend in Las Vegas.
Wow. Talk about a regional favorite. After I posted a query from Tony Thurber, looking for New Jersey-style pork roll, his fellow Taste of the Town readers responded en masse.
The new location of Mac Shack opened last week, joining the original restaurant that opened in 2010.
The Chefs on Stage component of the Life Is Beautiful festival will be a clear reflection of the festival itself — fun and free-spirited, with plenty of music.
There are likely to be a lot of familiar faces for those who visit the Culinary Village part of the Life Is Beautiful festival this weekend.
For the literal-minded among us: No, they won’t be changing lead into gold in the Alchemy Gardens at the Life Is Beautiful festival this weekend. But they will be changing things into something better.
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