Eating Las Vegas 2012

The 2012 edition of our acclaimed restaurant guide, Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants, features all the elements -- fully updated -- that made ELV 2011 such a success, including the Top Ten and 40 Best of the Rest picks from the city's top three food critics. We've expanded the popular Vetoes section and added lots more to the Additional Recommendations, including a whole section on Steakhouses, plus the Best of Downtown Dining, Sunday Brunches, Food Trucks, and Special Diet options. From the 5-Star Robuchons to ethnic hole-in-the-walls you've never heard of, Eating Las Vegas now has more than 150 restaurants and bars (30 more than last year). You'll find the text peppered throughout with new "Insider Tips" from the three expert authors and lots more photographs, too.

In "Eating Las Vegas 2012" the authors spotlight the 50 restaurants they could all agree are essential stops for foodies, visitors, and locals seeking an unforgettable meal. In the city that boasts over 2,000 places for dining out, this groundbreaking guide ushers you through the best of what this dining destination has to offer, with reviews covering the best of the city's most lavish dining rooms to off-the-Strip ethnic gems. This edition is fully expanded, with more arguments, more reviews, and more gorgeous photographs of the food that makes Las Vegas a top culinary destination.

The popular paleo diet involves eating more leafy greens, fruits, meats, and fish, while eschewing processed foods and dairy. Sounds healthy, right? And strict! Popular blogger Irena Macri follows the diet 80 percent of the time, allowing room for the occasional dessert or drink. The result? She looks and feels great, but not deprived. More than 100 recipes, beautiful photographs of colorful creative dishes, and can-do messages from Irena make Eat, Drink, Paleo Cookbook a book that appeals to cooks who want to embrace a healthier diet . . . most of the time.

"777 Cheap Eats in Las Vegas" is the most comprehensive listing of dining bargains ever compiled for the Las Vegas area. This paperback book is updated annually, and is organized into seven chapters: Price, Location, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Buffets, and 24-hour Dining.

The New York Times bestselling author of Tomatoland test drives the most popular diets of our time, investigating the diet gurus, contradictory advice, and science behind the programs to reveal how we should—and shouldn’t—be dieting. “Essential reading . . . This will completely change your ideas about what you should be eating.”—Ruth Reichl, author of Save Me the Plums Investigative journalist Barry Estabrook was often on the receiving end of his doctor’s scowl. Realizing he had two options—take more medication or lose weight—Estabrook chose the latter, but was paralyzed by the options. Which diet would keep the weight off? What program could he maintain over time? What diet works best—or even at all? Over the course of three years, Estabrook tried the regimens behind the most popular diets of the past forty years—from paleo, keto, gluten-free, and veganism to the Master Cleanse, Whole30, Atkins, Weight Watchers—examining the people, claims, and science behind the fads, all while recording his mental and physical experience of following each one. Along the way, he discovered that all the branded programs are derived from just three diets. There are effective, scientifically valid takeaways to be cherry-picked . . . and the rest is just marketing. Perhaps most alarming, Estabrook uncovered how short-term weight loss can do long-term health damage that may go undetected for years. Estabrook contextualizes his reporting with an analysis of our culture’s bizarre dieting history, dating back to the late 1800s, to create a thorough—and thoroughly entertaining—look at what specific diets do to our bodies, why some are more effective than others, and why our relationship with food is so fraught. Estabrook’s account is a relatable, pragmatic look into the ways we try to improve our health through dieting, revealing the answer may be to just eat.

It doesn’t have to be a gourmet meal or a marathon! Like many of us, Patricia Conlin has had a life-long love of food and eating. But as life got busy with work and family, she cut a few corners to get dinner on the table quickly and keep exercise in her life. While she thought she was still providing healthy meals for her growing young boys, she soon learned the truth. Patricia discovered that mastering a few nutrition and health strategies could dramatically increase her succcess and joy of life. And now she shares these learnings with you in ABCs of Food. This easy-to-read book combines humorous stories with helpful tips and informed insights on a plethora of topics, including agri-business, fighting illness, and improving health, that will increase your energy and improve your confidence and health. A Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Patricia discusses the nutritional content and benefits of eating a colossal number of foods from A to Z. Her section on nutrients gets to the heart of the massive and often confusing information available today. And the recipes will delight your taste buds and inspire you. You’ll want to read ABCs of Food from cover to cover and then keep it on your shelf for easy reference. Discover the powerful link between your health and well being and the food you eat. Patricia Conlin, president and founder of Global Consulting Group Inc., delivers quality solutions for recruitment, retention, and transition. Her passion for health and personal development led her to become a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN). In 2015, Patricia was nominated for a Toronto Business Leader Award for Wellness. She coaches companies and individuals on improving health and success and is an inspirational speaker on a range of health and business topics.

What's wrong with the US food system? Why is half the world starving while the other half battles obesity? Who decides our food issues, and why can't we do better with labeling, safety, or school food? These are complex questions that are hard to answer in an engaging way for a broad audience. But everybody eats, and food politics affects us all. Marion Nestle, whom Michael Pollan ranked as the #2 most powerful foodie in America (after Michelle Obama) in Forbes, has always used cartoons in her public presentations to communicate how politics—shaped by government, corporate marketing, economics, and geography—influences food choice. Cartoons do more than entertain; the best get right to the core of complicated concepts and powerfully convey what might otherwise take pages to explain. In Eat Drink Vote, Nestle teams up with The Cartoonist Group syndicate to present more than 250 of her favorite cartoons on issues ranging from dietary advice to genetic engineering to childhood obesity. Using the cartoons as illustration and commentary, she engagingly summarizes some of today's most pressing issues in food politics. While encouraging readers to vote with their forks for healthier diets, this book insists that it's also necessary to vote with votes to make it easier for everyone to make healthier dietary choices.