The next time you reach for a salt shaker, think about how much more interesting food could be with something other than plain old table salt. There’s smoked salt,salts with various herbs and spices, and even salt with activated charcoal.
We’ve had a relatively mild June so far — if a little uncharacteristically gloomy — but we don’t need summer’s official beginning last weekend to remind us that plenty of sizzling days are yet to come, and with them the need for refreshment. So it’s fitting that readers have a local source for an old favorite — Wyler’s Sugar-Free Lemonade Drink Mix, being sought by Julie and Don McCuiston.
When Review-Journal staffers gave our suggestions for the valley’s best neighborhood restaurants, we asked readers to submit their own favorites. Here are some of them:
After years of cutting his chef’s teeth in his father’s Louisiana-style restaurants, Scott Ghormley hankered for one of his own.
Anna’s Garden, 5740 Spring Mountain Road, received 27 demerits June 11. Violations included raw eggs stored over ready-to-eat foods. GRADE: C
LOS ANGELES — Home sales in the Western United States posted a 9 percent annual increase in May as homebuyers jumped on low interest rates and falling prices, according to two reports released Tuesday.
Consolidated Resorts, owners of the time share Tahiti Village Resort on Las Vegas Boulevard South, is filing for bankruptcy protection, the company confirmed late Tuesday.
Unemployment will continue to climb and more credit problems are likely to arise for the remainder of the year, but some improvement in Southern Nevada’s economy is seen for 2010, a local economist said Tuesday.
Recent financial moves by MGM Mirage have left the company’s auditor feeling pretty good about the gaming giant’s financial future.
Lady Luck decided it was time to end the patriarchy at the Las Vegas Municipal Court.
After the six judges tied 3-3 in a vote for the new chief judge, after the first draw of the cards today ended in another tie (a two of hearts versus a two of clubs), the next draw made Judge Betsy Kolkoski the new chief judge. Her Queen of spades beat Judge Cedric Kerns’ six of clubs.
When South Carolina Gov. and potential GOP Presidential nominee Mark Sanford disappeared last week, his aides claimed he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.
District Judge James Bixler awarded an $8.9 million judgment today to a Las Vegas woman who was injured in a 2005 accident.
A pro poker player who co-wrote a book analyzing poker situations in complicated mathematical terms applied his own science to win his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
It’s not easy putting your best game face on when your political party is coming apart like a cheap suit, but three GOP stalwarts tried their best Wedesday morning on “KNPR’s State of Nevada.”
The Nevada Public Utilities Commission agreed this morning to a power-rate increase that will boost the average residential consumer’s bill by 6.9 percent, or an average of $10.29 a month over a year.