In the glass: Scharzhofberger Riesling is a golden lemon-yellow color with a clean, clear core going out into a fine glassy star-bright-citrine rim definition with very high viscosity showing, based on residual sugar level in the wine.
Food
Forte European Tapas Bar & Bistro, 4180 S. Rainbow Blvd., gives the tapas treatment to the Bulgarian tastes boiling in the childhood homes of owner Nina Manchev — first in her homeland, then in Chicago and finally the Las Vegas Valley.
Jamie Oliver used fresh fruit and vegetables to try to win the hearts, or at least the fatty arteries, of a West Virginia city. Rachael Ray is working to reform school lunch. And Paula Deen, queen of Southern-fried goodness, recently taught an auditorium of kids how to cook and eat healthy.
All Star Donuts/Chinese Food, 1615 Las Vegas Blvd. South, received 20 demerits April 5. Violations included no sanitizer at three-compartment sink. GRADE: B.
In the glass: Borsao wine is a deep, dark blackish-red color with a dense opaque blood-red core going out into a dark purplish-red rim definition with high viscosity.
In the glass: Snap Dragon Cabernet Sauvignon is a deep blackish-red color with an opaque purplish-red center going out into a purplish-red rim definition and medium-high viscosity.
Black Mountain Golf and Country Club restaurant, 500 Greenway Road, Henderson, received 18 demerits March 30. Personal beverage improperly stored. GRADE: B.
Readers sometimes ask why people search for the foods of their youth. Simple. It’s because those foods are connected to fond memories. I well remember the first Big Boy I had. It wasn’t Bob’s, but another franchise, and it was quite the big deal in the days before the ubiquitous Big Mac rendered special sauce not so special.
The origin of the margarita is as cloudy as the lime juice in it. Hussong’s in Ensenada, Mexico — founded in 1880 by German immigrant Johan Hussong — lays one of at least eight claims to the tequila cocktail. (In 1941, its story goes, bartender Don Carlos Orozco mixed tequila, Damiana and lime for the first known time and served it over ice in a salt-rimmed glass to Margarita Henkel, daughter of the German ambassador to Mexico.)