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.... your shoe, airline seat, aisle floor, arm rest or toilet seat overflight? Remember that old song? According to the Moscow Times, the Russian airline Pobeda has had it with sticky chewing gum. It claims to be spending thousands of rubles to clean up squashed wads from the passenger sections of their airplanes.

Therefore, the subsidiary airline of Aeroflot has banned Spearmint and all other forms of gum from its flights. Russian airport security is already super tight when passengers go through the line. So, just imagine what the guards will do if you show up as a suspicious chewer.

Las Vegas NV: Dinner at Gordon Ramsay Steak PDF Print E-mail


Guest Senior Correspondent Jack L., Chicago IL: The restaurant is inside the elegant Paris resort on the Las Vegas Strip. There are two levels, with a large, sweeping staircase leading to the upper dining room. There’s also a bar, surrounding lounge and private dining rooms.

My appetizer was the bouche colcannon, an Irish traditional dish, with red wine braised cabbage croquettes. Next was beets, roasted with house-made ricotta cheese, lettuce, oyster mushrooms under a champagne vinaigrette, plus pumpernickel bread. The second course was asparagus soup with dungeness crab and some cheese custard. Alongside were pickled white asparagus and smoked caviar.

The third course was a house specialty, Beef Wellington. This was done perfectly, both the beef and the pastry, served with glazed root vegetables and a potato puree.

Dessert was coconut panna cotta and mango passion sorbet. This was served with berry consume, mint and fruit. After-dinner wines included Perrier-Jouet brut champagne, Spanish Rias Baixas, German Veltliner, Napa cab and a Piedmontese Moscato with dessert.

 
 
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