068 Dice Tomatoes: Brian Brown’s China Date Ranch Is Hands Down The Best Las Vegas Day Trip Forget adjectives, none of them do this place justice. China Date Ranch is one of those “you have to see it to believe it” destinations. Only 85 miles from Vegas and you’ll think you’re in Jordan or perhaps […]

067 Dice Tomatoes:  Chef Marc Parma Restaurant Discusses Fresh Pasta At Las Vegas Bet On The Farm Farmers Market Perhaps a challenger for the busiest owner-chef of a major Las Vegas restaurant, Parma, Chef Marc interviews on Dice Tomatoes Radio. His table at Bet On The Farm is packed with beautiful transparent containers of various […]

066 Dice Tomatoes: A Las Vegas Executive Pastry Chef’s Competitive Advantage It’s December 15, 2011, and week three of the newly launched Bet On The Farm farmers market at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, and we find Doug Taylor, market manager and Executive Pastry Chef for the Batali and Bastianich Las Vegas restaurants surveying  the […]

065 Dice Tomatoes:  Las Vegas Farmer’s Market Debuts At Springs Preserve It’s like riding a bicycle. After a nine month hiatus, Doug Taylor and his Bet On The Farm Farmers Market reopened at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve on Thursday, December 1, 2011, and everyone just picked up like it was yesterday and carried on. As a […]

064 Dice Tomatoes:  Chef Marc, Parma Restaurant Las Vegas, Wears Three Hats He’s known as one of the best Italian Chefs in Vegas.  His Parma Restaurant is packed with regulars and visitors who have made his name synonymous with mouth watering creations using only the best fresh-from-the-field ingredients and always using hand made fresh pasta. So he […]

063 Dice Tomatoes: California Family Farms Offers Las Vegas Chefs With The Best That California Has To Offer It was great to renew old acquaintances at the opening of the Bet On The Farm Farmers Market at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve. It was a cold, wet, Thursday morning, December 1, 2011, an amazing departure […]

062 Dice Tomatoes:  Joe Van Dyke Farms Brings Color, Freshness and Variety To Launch of Las Vegas Farmers Market at Springs Preserve So what do Don Anderson, Colorado River Roasters, Rosiland Gibson, Bloom’n Desert Herb Farm, and Priscilla Van Dyke have in common? Before entering the business world and becoming valued resources of fine food […]

039 Dice Tomatoes: La Vegas Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman Visits FEED Farmers Market and joins John Donovan on Dice Tomatoes Radio Show. It has been a smooth hand off, like the passing of a baton, as Carolyn Goodman has seamlessly continued in the ‘Goodman’ tradition of knowing how to work a room, or in this […]

061 Dice Tomatoes:  Meet Stephanie Tejada, Founder and Owner of Strawberry Creek Have you ever wandered around a store like Whole Foods, noticed a beautiful display of a vendor’s specialty product, and wondered how that particular product was selected for sale over countless others? During such a recent visit a display jumped out at me, a […]

060 Dice Tomaotes: Laura Beldsoe’s Beautiful and Productive Quail Hollow Farms in Moapa Valley, Nevada Last we saw Laura Bledsoe was at the annual seed exchange held last January at her beautiful Quail Hollow Farms in Moapa. It was great to see Laura attending this week’s FEED farmers market in downtown Las Vegas and we didn’t hesitate to […]