Editor's Blog - Comments from the Kitchen Office

Last week it was chef-delivered delicacies in beautifully decorated restaurants, in one of the most alive cities in the world. This week it’s granola bars at my desk. I pick last week.

Our Christmas shoot gave me goose bumps. In, oh, so many ways. If you haven’t yet seen the latest “A Christmas Carol” movie, with Jim Carrey, go see it. Then compare the tables and see how we brought the food of “A Christmas Carol” to life!

We wanted to find something different in our final day in Las Vegas. We did. Boy, did we.

We each do what we do. In the case of each of our restaurants, across the board, they serve. Their natural bent is toward hospitality. On Day 6 of our Raves & Faves tour, we found three restaurants that demonstrate that hospitality in very different ways.

On Day 5 of our Raves & Faves restaurant tour of Las Vegas, we found people with really interesting “back stories.” They don’t come out easily—these are hospitable people who usually make it all about their customer, not about themselves.

Day 4 of our Las Vegas restaurant tour, and we’re beginning to count both calories and hours. Too many of the first, and not enough of the second. So many restaurants, and so little time. Too much to count.

Day 3 of our Las Vegas restaurant tour. We’re not yet sick of food. In fact, to see the crew gather with excitement around the plates of food as they were brought out to be photographed, you’d think we’d never seen food!

Day 2 of our Las Vegas restaurant tour – Raves & Faves. If you’ve been following us on Twitter you already know where we’ve been and what we’ve eaten. Allow me to recap the most recent hours.

This blog is not coming to you from the kitchen office. No, this time it’s coming to you from the 6th floor of a hotel room in Las Vegas. The room is strewn with menus, shooting schedules, release forms, camera battery packs, light kits and file folders.

Don’t tell my husband that he can get a chicken meal for $1. Especially not on a night when he is trying to do something nice for me. It all started back when Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) introduced its grilled chicken and gave it away for free.