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The House Specialty

Who would remember Alexandre Etienne Choron without Choron sauce? Caesar Cardini without the Caesar salad? And even Ettore Boiardi, without all of that Chef Boyardee stuff?

RESTAURANT REPORT

Best Western Lighthouse Inn snack bar, 110 Ville Drive, Boulder City, received 18 demerits Sept. 10. Violations included raw eggs stored over ready-to-eat foods. GRADE: B

Mt. Everest offers both mainstream, more unusual Indian dishes

While it’s not quite here yet, it surely won’t be long before a few favorite dishes identified mostly with Indian cuisine — tandoori chicken, certainly, and maybe the bread called naan — fully break out into the American restaurant mainstream.

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A lot of thought went into staging ‘Working’

“Working” is a plotless musical based on Studs Terkel’s 1974 paean to the common man, and if there’s one thing it needs as much as first-rate singing voices, it’s characters. The script is populated with a cross section of types that represent America’s labor force. Unless we believe we’re hearing that labor force singing, then the show has no substance.

RESTAURANT REPORT

Aloha Hawaiian BBQ, 6475 S. Pecos Road, received 20 demerits Sept. 1. Violations included employee used bulk rice barrel to prep raw shrimp. GRADE: B

Ode to a Grecian Festival

On a steamy Saturday in early August, the parking lot behind St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church smelled, improbably enough, of butter.

Shanks available at meat market

The tendency for more and more meat to arrive in stores pre-packaged has reduced the availability of many old-fashioned specialty cuts, but readers did find beef shanks locally for Lois Growney. Julie Kisosondi e-mailed that she gets them at Larry’s Great Western Meats, 420 S. Valley View Blvd., and Jan Bartholomew that she found them at Food 4 Less at 2225 Las Vegas Blvd. North. …

Soft drinks with real sugar tough to find

A lot of people are looking for products that don’t contain high-fructose corn syrup, and finding them difficult to locate. In response to Anna Carlton, who’s looking for soft drinks with regular sugar, Dean B. Pomerantz and C. John Stark suggested she check Mexican markets. I’ve noticed that not all soft drinks sold in Mexican markets are made without the corn syrup, but Pomerantz recommended looking for small bottles of Coke and Pepsi in six-packs. “You can tell which ones they are because they have a nutrition/ingredient sticker on the bottles,” Stark noted.

What’s For Lunch?

Look at it from your kids’ perspective.

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