If there was ever a person who you could say has eaten Las Vegas, it’s John Curtas. The food critic has been a fixture in the local dining scene for decades.
BY MARIE ANDRUSEWICZ -- You’re interested in drinking good wine, but not quite ready to join the foodie set, with their goat cheese-stuffed figs, and their locally-sourced organic produce stashed in their public radio tote bags..
KNPR food critics Max Jacobson and John Curtas have eaten their way through another year. They pause long enough to give us a rundown of some of the best of 2010. Take a deep breath. It's a long list.
The world outside of the narrow world of fine dining now knows who Brett Ottolenghi is, thanks to his late-summer profile in the New Yorker. Max Jacobson and John Curtas talk with Brett Ottolenghi, the proprietor of Las Vegas's Artisanal Foods, about the fine art of finding the finest food for this city's finest chefs - and why great cheese is so hard to come by.