Two of my favorite cuisines are Thai and Chinese, so I hit the jackpot when I scored an interview with Chef Jet Tila at his swanky Asian-fusion bistro, Wazuzu at Encore in Las Vegas! Clearly, the new Encore and Wynn resorts are the Beverly Hills of Las Vegas. And you won't find a Keno … [Read more...]
Viva Wazuzu Video
I hit the jackpot when I scored an interview with Chef Jet Tila at Wazuzu, his delicious Asian-fusion bistro at Encore in Las Vegas... MAKE CHEF JET'S NOODLES AT HOME! The Drunken Noodles are my favorite! Fresh rice noodles with Thai basil, sweet soy sauce, chilies and onions... and a little … [Read more...]
Good & Gooder Part Deux: Food & Wine Classic in Aspen
Leave a comment. When you visit the Rocky Mountains, there are hopes of spotting wildlife. When you visit the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, there are dreams of spotting celebrity chefs. And by a stroke of Irish luck, Betty's wildest Chef Spotting hopes and dreams came true at this year's … [Read more...]
Good & Gooder: Food & Wine Classic in Aspen 2009 Video
Apparently schlepping the Ouija Board to Aspen was a good idea because Betty scores a celebrity-chef-interview Trifecta with Chef Michael Chiarello, Chef Ming Tsai, and Top Chef Stephanie Izard! If you want to know the answers to questions like, "who's a better cook, you or your mother?" or "do … [Read more...]
Good & Gooder: The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen!
Leave a comment. After an amazing culinary adventure at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Betty's back to the comforts of home in Los Angeles. And by comforts she means intolerable traffic, the sound of leaf blowers, and of course, her Snuggie. While Betty edits video footage captured at the … [Read more...]
WARNING: iFoods.tv Interview (video)
Leave a comment. ** WARNING: PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED! TV-PG(L) ** Niall Harbison of iFoods.tv interviews Betty in his first Video Diary Interview! What an honor! So what's the WARNING for? Well, Niall drops an F-Bomb at the 3:44 mark. Niall is Irish, and if you don't know already … [Read more...]
Betty Presents: An Interview with Marisa McClellan
After all of the awful news of hurricanes, train wrecks, lipstick-wearing pigs and $1,000,000,000,000 Wall Street bailouts, Betty finally hit the saturation point! What's an average Betty to do in times like these? Well, how 'bout hang up the wig and hang out with Marisa McClellan, editor of … [Read more...]
What happens in Vegas…
...Stays in Vegas? Well, sometimes. Not if you're around a bunch of New Media types at The New Media Expo; in that case, your exploits and adventures not only make it home... they make it on the Internet! Thanks, iPhone. One of the Expo highlights for Betty was having the pleasure of … [Read more...]
Breaking Average Betty News: New Media Trifecta!
Average Betty made the KTTV Fox-11 10 o'clock news on Wednesday, October 17th! The lovely Gina Silva and her camera man, Robert, spent the afternoon at Betty Headquarters to get a behind-the-scenes scoop. The story was a tie-in with Fox's Hell's Kitchen starring Gordon Ramsay. Special thanks to … [Read more...]