In a city known for hospitality, it's imperative to create the best atmospheres for dining, and that includes picking the best tunes. That's why a professor and sommelier are teaming up at UNLV to teach an elective course: "The Aesthetics of Music and Wine."

If your rice routinely turns out sticky, gluey, or oddly clumped, the problem may not be your pot, your ratio, or your stove—it may be what you didn’t do before cooking. Rinsing rice is one of the most debated steps in the kitchen (and hotly debated on social media), but experts say this simple rinse can make a noticeable difference in texture and, in some cases, nutrition and food safety. So what actually happens when rice meets water?

The first fusion restaurants born in the ’70s sometimes served up more confusion than anything else. Remember Watergate Salad, that ghoulishly green conglomeration with ingredients like instant pistachio pudding, pineapple and a lingering sense of shame? But my, how things have changed.