Ask your kids where carrots come from, and we bet you ten bucks they say a carrot factory. Consider it a symptom of an era when agribusiness and grocery megachains have turned sustenance into a global cash machine - one that contributes to childhood obesity.

Jet Tila is the chef at Wazuzu, the buzzworthy pan-Asian restaurant at Encore Las Vegas. He is from L.

The new reins behind CoachWondering about that brand new name recently opened near the Trevi Fountain at the Forum Shops? Reed Krakoff is best known as the current president of Coach, Inc. - and the man that brought said label back from designer handbag purgatory and onto the arms of many a well-heeled suburbanite and city-dweller.

A new program brings affordable health care to the uninsured of Las Vegas. It started in Nevada - but it's creating a stir across the nationIn 2007, Reno security guard Ron Watson lost his job - and his health insurance.

When you're eating out, the dining experience begins long before that first forkful hits the flavor zone (i.e.

To most of us, November means a big turkey, loud relatives and deathlike, tryptophan-induced slumbers in the easy chair. However, it's also Native American Heritage Month.

If you find yourself hungry for more after you've digested our Restaurant Awards (page 42), dig into our panel of critics' other picks for Sin City foodies to swallow. A new book by John Curtas, Max Jacobson and Al Mancini, Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants (Huntington Press, $12.

As we close out the two thousand "ands" -- the decade that was the "ohs," "aughts" and "naughts" -- there's no argument it was an extraordinary one for Las Vegas. And not just for us.

Steven Spiegel and Michael Crandall of the Siegel Group have quickly made a name for themselves rehabbing historic properties from downtown to Mount Charleston.Build it up.

The envelope (and the check), please. It's time for our annual Desert Companion Restaurant Awards.