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Ryan Olbrysh
Steve Wynn can’t just eat. He eats, and he opines.
Published Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 | 2 a.m.
Updated Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 | 12:20 p.m.
Steve Wynn is eating. He’s not merely eating, of course. Because Steve Wynn can’t just eat. He eats, and he opines. He eats, and he lectures. He eats, and while he eats he devours information about what he is eating. He digests this information, allowing it to course through his bloodstream until it permeates his brain. Then he shares this invaluable dietary intelligence, imparting his knowledge so persuasively you begin to believe if you don’t eat as Steve Wynn eats, you might well die before your time.
“The notion that you need animal food as protein is one of the great conspiracies of (expletive) by the government,” he says, clinking a spoon hard against a china bowl steaming with steel-cut oatmeal. “Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It’s ridiculous. It’s liquid cholesterol.”
Wynn is speaking casually, freely, during breakfast at his villa at Wynn Las Vegas. His dogs, Tari and Damo, play fetch—retrieving and delivering a moist, well-gnawed rubber ball to the dining table. Outside the residence’s tall, sliding glass doors is the Wynn Country Club—an entirely appropriate postcard of lush green turf—and above loom the famous Picasso paintings “Nature Morte aux Tulipes” and “Le Reve,” for which Wynn nearly named this hotel and which he also famously blemished with an errant jab of an elbow five years ago.
The man who swapped his own “Wynn” for “Le Reve” as the name of the lavish Strip resort dips a spoon into a small cup of walnuts pulverized into a thick paste. Then, deliberately, he pours maple syrup into his oatmeal. Doesn’t spill a drop.
Yes, Steve Wynn is living a vegan diet. And he thinks you should, too.
Steve Wynn and Andrea Hissom on the Andre Agassi Grand Slam red carpet at the Wynn on Oct. 9, 2010.
“What happened to Gulu?”
There is the great “why” to address in Wynn’s latest lifestyle change. He’s 68 and turns the calendar again on January 27 as he edges inevitably toward 70, so there is a sense that he prefers to remain vigorous and youthful as a septuagenarian. He certainly looks closer to 50 than 70, his hair a lighter shade of brown and his skin smooth and radiant. But aging is inevitable for everyone, even billionaire resort magnates. Wynn sees it in his longtime friends, colleagues, mentors, anyone he’s known or conducted business with over the decades. He recalls seeing Kirk Kerkorian at last month’s Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children and notes how his onetime doubles partner at Las Vegas Country Club has slowed with age.
“He’s not the Kerkorian who boxed and jogged, that I know,” Wynn says.
Wynn was in his mid-20s when he and Kerkorian swatted tennis balls, and he surely yearns to remain vibrant, if only to keep pace with his striking girlfriend, Andrea Hissom, who is 20 years his junior and terrifically fit. (Hissom has lost five pounds eating as a vegan, and it is unfathomable to figure out just whence that weight was shed.)
Wynn says he feels great, and his appearance bears that out. He doesn’t weigh himself, but he’s lean and glad to note his 32-inch waist. “Or it’s 33, depending on who makes the jeans.” His cholesterol, for years managed with the help of the prescription medication Lipitor, is at 140, down from 180 before he changed his diet.
“Another thing the government says is it should be under 200,” Wynn says. “You can go into cardiac arrest under 200. One-fifty is the number.”
Aside from his chronic eye condition retinitis pigmentosa, which significantly limits his peripheral and nighttime vision, Wynn is in good health.
But Steve Wynn, giving up meat, always and forever? Boy-howdy. This is a man whose hotel boasts a high-end steakhouse bearing his initials, a man so immersed in the culture of red-meat-eatin’ Old West culture that in his younger days he competed in steer wrestling competitions on the ranch of Ralph Lamb. Recently, he booked country music hero Garth Brooks into Encore Theatre, luring thousands of Brooks’ fans to Wynn’s Strip resorts.
And members of the international Brooks Brigade like their steaks thick and juicy, bleeding even.
Wynn’s vegan epiphany took hold on June 22, specifically. By the morning of June 23, Wynn and Hissom were Vegans for life. In a wedding-gown-white pantsuit, Hissom also sits in on the conversation, providing pertinent patchwork in the form of facts and elaboration.
The Wynn-Hissom life change unfolded as the couple was in St. Tropez, visiting heiress and socialite Carol Asher and her boyfriend, Bombay-born multimillionaire Gulu Lalvani, founder and chairman of Binatone, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of digital cordless phones. The foursome was to dine together when Asher showed up with a man Wynn did not readily recognize.
“I said, ‘Hey, she’s got a younger guy,’ ” Wynn recalls. “That’s not Gulu. This guy is 50 years old.” When asked how old Lalvani is, Hissom replies, “Let’s just say 70.”
“But he comes closer,” Wynn continues, “and it is Gulu, and Andrea says, ‘What happened to Gulu? Has he had work done or what?’ He’s lost 30 pounds, his eyes are all clear, he’s got a spring in his step and he’s lost 20 years. I thought, he’s been to a doctor.”
When the foursome sat down, Wynn asked, “Gulu? What is it, my man?” But Lalvani just laughed. Wynn pressed, “Well, who did you go to?”
“Nobody,” Lalvani responded. “I have a present for you.”
Lalvani reached into his pocked and pulled out the DVD Eating, the most recent installment of the dietary educational series directed by, and starring, medical researcher Mike Anderson, pioneer of the “rave” diet program.
“Promise me you’ll look at it,” Lalvani said to Wynn, who responded, “Okay, Gulu, okay.”
The DVD was not an instant hit.
“We started watching it, and after the first five minutes, I’m saying, ‘What is this about? A diet?’” Wynn says, laughing. “Then we watched the second five minutes, same thing … but a half-hour into it, I’m saying, ‘Jesus, I didn’t know that.’ Ninety minutes later, I shut off the TV. The next morning (claps hands) it was over. I never had another meat.”
The video extols the virtues of a vegan diet, or “rave” diet, which is a vegan diet (no animal-produced products or foodstuffs whatsoever) with a higher concentration of raw foods and a more stringent limit on processed fats and sugar. Wynn has essentially adopted a rigid vegan diet and is very nearly a true rave dieter, but does occasionally allow for a little olive oil in his food.
It helps, of course, that Wynn is a very wealthy man who employs some the best chefs in the world to prepare his meals.
“To be perfectly candid about this, it was very easy for us to do this because I called the chef on board the yacht in the morning and I said, ‘Katie, this is what we’re doing now.’ She said, ‘No problem, Mr. Wynn.’ She got a cookbook out and we were eating great, instantaneously. We had a walk-in cooler in the bottom of the boat that was full of steaks that I had bought for the trip. That went for naught. We gave it to our guests.”
And it wasn’t enough for Wynn to keep this pronounced lifestyle change to himself. He wanted the change to be immediate and far-reaching. Every Wynn employee was given a copy of the Eating DVD. “I’ve had 10,000 made, and I’ll make more,” he says. Wynn also called Andrew Pascal, president of Wynn Las Vegas, and said, “I think it would be great if we gave everybody a choice in the staff dining room.” Pascal raised his boss, saying, “What if we gave everybody a choice, period?”
So it is that today that all of Wynn’s restaurants offer vegan-friendly menus.
“Now, I’m not going to say there’s no more animal-based food in the staff dining room. I’m not closing SW (steakhouse) … you can still go to SW and order a New York or a porterhouse,” Wynn says. “What I am saying is that wherever you go in this hotel, there’s a vegan menu, in every single restaurant.”
At Le Staff Café (the fancy name of Wynn’s employee dining room, which Wynn brags is as nice as the coffee shop at Caesars Palace), you’ll find such offerings as zucchini lasagna and vegetable and tofu stir fry with brown rice. Even the Buffet at Wynn Las Vegas is vegan-friendly, with wok-seared tofu with black bean sauce and four-bean and brown rice enchiladas amid the options.
In all, 18 restaurants (in addition to the buffet and employee dining room) at Wynn and Encore are on board. At SW, you can order a melon duo, tofu salad and grilled royal trumpet mushrooms with polenta. At Sinatra, try the black lentil salad, couscous with poached veggies, pineapple carpaccio with pistachios and coconut ice cream. Tableau offers creamy corn soup, roasted beet salad, napoleon of savory tofu and almond or soy milk latte.
“And if you go to Wing Lei and order, just tell them you want Steve’s food. Our chef (Xian Ming Yu), has mastered summer rolls and various other dishes,” Wynn says, clearly energized about these summer rolls. “He is the king for having mastered this. All the chefs got very competitive, including Alex Stratta, and it’s all great. But Andrea and I are eating at (Wing Lei) three out of seven nights a week.”
As if on cue, Wynn gives his now-empty oatmeal bowl a final swipe with the spoon. “Clink!”
Steve Wynn on the Andre Agassi Grand Slam red carpet at the Wynn on Oct. 9, 2010.
“Who had four operations on L-4 and L-5 last year?”
Though he says he was ultimately inspired by the apparent Fountain of Youth tapped by his buddy Gulu Lalvani, who “has beautiful gray hair” and “looks like he’s in GQ,” Wynn did experience a powerful, life-changing health crisis last winter.
Physically active for his entire life (he even worked as a ski instructor in Sun Valley, Idaho, in his late 20s and early 30s), Wynn has suffered chronic knee pain and weathered a series of surgeries on those joints. He has also experienced degenerative damage to his spine.
The back pain in particular also played into his decision to alter what he puts into his body, be it food, liquids or prescription medication.
“Listen. Who had four operations on L-4 and L-5 last year?” Wynn asks. Before he can answer himself, Hissom calls out, “You!”
“And I can’t understand why!” Wynn continues. “It turns out that one of the things that goes along with an animal-based diet is disc disease. … I had a very difficult winter. I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so they had to open me up five times in four months. … It was in the bottom of my back, the same incision. They should have put a zipper on it.”
Four of those surgeries were conducted between December 18 and February 8. “I was getting a lot of pain, so I was prescribed (an adhesive) patch of Fentanyl, and then right after the surgery they gave me Dilaudid. Now, those are very heavy-duty painkillers.”
As Wynn notes, the physician who prescribed Fentanyl did not know he had been prescribed Dilaudid. “I thought you could take both,” Wynn says, disclosing a dangerously inaccurate assumption.
Las Vegas entertainment observers know of Dilaudid as a contributing factor in the death of Wynn’s friend and Encore headliner Danny Gans in May 2009. (Elvis Presley, too, was known to use the drug.) Fentanyl is highly addictive and particularly dangerous because the patient often doesn’t feel its numbing affects.
“I was addicted, but I didn’t know I was addicted because I didn’t feel high,” Wynn says. “So when Eddie Nathan, who is a local doctor, who I grew up with, took out my stitches, that night at 7 o’clock I went upstairs in the bedroom and said, ‘Great!’ and ripped the patch off and threw it in the toilet.
“I shouldn’t have done that.”
No, it was a bad idea, as Wynn had acted without consulting a physician. In an hour, he had buckled under the effects of severe chemical withdrawal.
“I was in hell,” he says. “It’s impossible to describe the feeling, but when you take a heroin junkie, and it’s either cold turkey or the alternative, you understand why they commit crimes.”
To combat his agonizing sweats and trembling, Wynn embarked on a routine of climbing into the shower, then returning to bed.
“You know that movie, Man With the Golden Arm? That’s what it was like,” Wynn says, referring to the 1955 film featuring Frank Sinatra’s famous heroin withdrawal scene. “The only way I could survive was to tell Andrea she should not stay with me, to go downstairs to the other bedroom and not touch me—but she wouldn’t do it. But I would get up every 45 minutes and go in and stand for 15 minutes under the hot shower, and that calmed me down and stopped the crazed, tumultuous feeling I had inside. Then I would be able to go sit in the bed or lay upright for 45 minutes, and then it would come back again.”
Wynn finally contacted a pain doctor, and told him he still had a Fentanyl patch in his possession. The doctor told him to cut the patch in half and put it on his shoulder, explaining with great urgency, “What you’re experiencing has just started. In the next 30 hours, this is going to get real serious.”
Wynn laughs.
“Real serious? Are you kidding me? I’m ready to kill myself!”
It took Wynn three weeks and a physician’s assistance to get off the pain medication, and he is still detectably affected by the experience.
“I said to my surgeon, ‘If I ever have another operation, I don’t care what technique you use, I am never, ever going to take a pain pill again as long as I live.’”
Viva Las Vegan
There’s no question that when Steve Wynn makes such an abrupt lifestyle change, one that resonates through his entire resort empire, the world takes notice.
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams are Wynn frequenters, and the two hosted a Twitterati event at Blush nightclub just last month.
“They’re friends with Andrew (Pascal), they’re about the same age as him, and they were having lunch together,” Wynn says, referring to a meal the group shared over the summer. Pascal excused himself to go try some new menu items, explaining, “Oh, well, Steve’s coming home tomorrow and he went vegan, and so did a bunch of others.” Among the “bunch” was Pascal, who tried the vegan diet for about a month.
Pascal also told Stone and Williams about the change in the menu in the employee dining room and the plans to add vegan items to every restaurant’s menu.
“So Evan says, ‘Steve Wynn went vegan? That’s big news!’” Wynn recounts, smiling. “And Andy says, ‘Why is that?’ And Evan says, “Because in the vegan movement, if there is a high-profile person who goes vegan, that’s big, big news.’ ”
The next day, Pascal met up with Stone.
The dietary world had changed.
Evan had tweeted about Wynn’s new diet and his resort’s vegan menus. The news, Wynn says, “was all over Twitter.” All over, indeed.
“My phone was blowing up,” Wynn Vice President of PR and Advertising Jenn Dunne says. “Every newsletter, publication and magazine that has anything to do with vegetarian or vegan wants to know about this.”
After an hour, breakfast is over. As Wynn walks to the villa’s entrance, he says, “I think it’s a good idea to talk about this, don’t you? I think I can help a lot of people.”
He’s spreading the word, is Steve Wynn, champion of the Strip and now of the meatless and dairy-free diet. For him, it’s a cakewalk—a vegan-friendly cakewalk, naturally.
Coincidentally, five days before Steve Wynn adopted his vegan diet, John Katsilometes also embraced the dietary lifestyle. From June 22 to September 23 (with a few relapses), he ate a strictly vegan diet. Read about his experiences, and his chat with Wynn about the process, in The Kats Report.
Steve Wynn.
Living caricature.
And the reason for this article is wha-at?
Steve your late ....I started that 25 years ago.... I am almost 70 yrs old but I dont know that....I dont eat red meat... no pork... mostly pasta and lots of veggies and fruit....look what a new romance has done for you..."younger then spring time are you".....
Does Wynn remember he has his own steak house?
i dont know if i could ever develop a sense of loving rabbit food, as i hang out with the wrong crowd. cabbage,rutabagas,celery,broccoli,yams,eggplant,endives and spinach are not the first things to come to mind when i sit at the dinner table. steve has the advantage of going downstairs and having that filet mignon, medium rare, every once in a while to make sure that the staff are on the ball.
And then Steve undoes the gold sash on his gaudy crushed red velvet robe and lifts the hem, then leans forward on a cylindrical orange throw pillow so that you can plant your lips even more firmly on his backside.
Steve: it's NOT the (expletive) Government that tells you to eat meat and prepared foods, it's the meat and prepared foods industry, the ones that DON'T WANT government regulation because it's bad for their profits. Right?
This is what the "China Study" research says (Dr. T. Colin Campbell). A Plant based, whole foods diet doesn't make the cattle industry money, so they created TV advertisements that do. The Government isn't God in America, God is the TV.
Good going Steve! You did it Super. You are worth what you earned. Now tell the World.
The only "Vegetable" in this story is Mr. Katz. I am not going to dwell in the past; (Can you say Edgar Renteria?) My back injury was in-operable; The fraud of course is "A Friendly". The end-game is being orchestrated by someone inside the Govt. who has other plans for MY MONEY AND YOURS TOO! Yes I had beans for breakfast but ain't a f@#$%$#@ vegan yet!
Who changed the phone # Kruschev?
I saved a guy's life back when I was in the Navy and this is how you get repaid for it? Being bar-b-qued by a bunch of dolts who wouldn't know an F-4 from Stargate phantom? No aint gonna shut up till they pay me or put me in the ground.
Same old tired dog-and-pony show. Take your stick and your carrot and stick em where the sun-don't-shine.............
This is an extremely interesting article.
Giving up or greatly reducing the eating of meat would also over time get rid of the disgusting factory farms, which cruelly enslave animals from birth to abattoir, giving them absolutely no quality of life.
This article also gives a bit of insight into how super-achievers focus on an idea and, almost compulsively, take it to a new level. That is the essence of old-fashioned American ingenuity.
I am going to have my wife read the article and see if she will agree to changing our diet.
Sorry, Vegan Diet in Vegas doesn't ring with intensity. Aged Filet, drinks, lose slots, night life and maybe a greasy breakfast late at night. Now that's MY Vegas.
I thought there was something strange about Steve the last couple times I've seen him.. the high powered pain killers during this period would explain it perfectly.
Oh so Steve Wynn is blaming socialist governments for meat-eating! The guy has lost the plot. Steve, humans have been eating meat before there were any governments.
BTW Steve, when are you going to complain about socialism in the Peoples Republic of China? Or are you too afraid?
Maybe because a steak is so expensive at one of his restaurants!
but is he a Las Vegan? Don't forget where you made you name and money Mr Wynn next time you bag on Las Vegas
the po' boy diet, by airweare,
breakfast: oats ($.07) and berries($.25), raisins($.09), banana($.22) and milk($.15) or yogurt($.24). Splurge = fifty cents.
lunch: beans($.10), rice(.05) or potato salad ($.15) apple($.15) nuts($.20). $.50 -.60
snack: fruit, nuts,
dinner: capanada w/ eggplant, onion, garlic, red pepper, sun-dried tomatoes, capers, currants and olives in olive oil. Make ahead, chill and allow to rewarm to room temp for best flavor integration. Good for a couple of weeks ($.75 a serving but who's counting? Mmmm)
Grilled salmon slathered in curry powder, lemon pepper and MAYO. Don't worry, cholesterolians, the mayo cooks off, steams the salmon with curry and lemon, and keeps it from sticking to the grill. It won't end up in your veins;it's air-born eggy-fluff. Inch thick steaks, ten minutes on a hot fire - each side gets the heat for 2 minutes, then cover to smoke heavily for 3; then over once for the 2 and 3, heat, smoke routine. ($8.75)
For ten bucks and chump change a day, you can:
live better than Steve Wynn,
have more fun with splurge and save than Ken Lay,
fish and grill like Andre Agassi,
dine and dash like Oprah Winfrey
and have more fun than kings and queens in history books.
And do it all by yourself with help from the air
BTW, animal consumption in this country produces 5 tons per person per year of animal waste.
Remember Oprah holding a sack of seventy pounds of fat?
It comes down to 27 pounds a day for every American. A gram of fresh poop every 7 seconds for our burgers, wings, etc. per person. Five backpacks of poop every day. Every American.
And nary a methane digester farm to be seen.In our first-world country.
In India, over 3 million methane digesters convert the free by-product of ruminating bovine into usable energy forms - gas to cook and make electricity. In a third world country. LOL
"Don't worry, cholesterolians, the mayo cooks off"
Highly questionable. Where does the mayo cook off to, the walls and ceiling?
Guess the "Cattlemen's Convention" "The Lamb Chop Advisory Board" and the "Burger Marketing Board" will not be booking their conventions at the Wynn Properties.
Can a Vegan be a ditto-head????
That's why the Wynn Buffet sucks so bad, he wants us to be vegans. Now it all makes sense.
I case you haven't been there, don't waste your money. There are better buffets on the strip for half the price.
Wynn is a modern day Howard Hughes...more than a little eccentric.
We know Mr Wynn is a vegan... the question is... Is he still a Las Vegan?
WHO CARES!!!!!!
Kudos to you if that is the diet you prefer...
Me? I'll take my Meat (Steak is my preference) and Potatoes anytime :)
So a guy who made a Jillion+++ $$$ off of the excess, greed and degenerate behavior of the masses, now wants to tell those same sheeple how to live and eat?
Give me a break. I don't need Steve Wynn preaching veganism any more to me than I need the San Francisco Board of Supervisors banning Happy Meals.
I could never be a Vegan. I love my BBQ (beef and pork) too much. And on days like today there is nothing as good as chili made from the leftovers. (Yes, you CAN have leftover BBQ if you cook enough in the first place just for the chili later.) Pulled pork makes great enchiladas, as well.
Careful Steve, remember what happened to Oprah? I know you are powerful but American Dairy Association and American Cattleman's association have lots to bucks too!
It is a shame that a man I have admired for many years has turned out to be such an idoit.
I care about what Mr. Wynn eat... I don't think so. We either eat what we can or what we can afford.
Vegetarianism is not for everyone. I tried it a few years ago and did not feel well. Everyone's metabolism is different.
Let's see, Mr. Wynn has more money than God, a hot looking babe and now a new healthy diet, there must be something to that Golden Rule (He who has the gold rules!!). I choose to believe that it was an act of generosity and altruism to give the vegan diet DVD to his employees. Having said that, if I were cynical----- should a significant number of his employees choose to eat healthier, not necessarily vegan, wouldn't that result in fewer health insurance claims for Wynn Resorts and thus lower group health premiums, increasing the bottom line, and isn't Steve a large (the largest?) shareholder in Wynn Resorts, so wouldn't he end up being a beneficiary of the healthier eating habits of his employees?? Seriously, more power to Steve Wynn, I wish him the best.
I'm pleased to see that Steve Wynn is publicizing the benefits of going "vegan". My wife and I switched recently on advice of a physician and after reading "The China Study" by Colin Campbell. Read it and you will become a believer. The doctor pretty much proves that a vegetarian diet results in a healthier life -- and he is not even trying to sell anything!
Former President Clinton apparently has also switched to help control his heart problems and as a side benefit he lost 24 pounds.
The problem we're finding here in Las Vegas is that there are very few vegetarian/vegan restaurants. I'd love to eat at Wing Lei a couple of times a week but doubt that my wallet is thick enough.
Maybe this publicity will encourage some mid-price restaurants to offer vegetarian menus.
AS I said previously the Vegetarian Diet is not for everyone. For example: George Harrison and Linda McCartney were Vegetarians for many years and died prematurely. I could cite many more examples.
Who the hell is Steve Wynn? Is he one of those Cadillac dealers in Vegas? Run a pawn shop? Sell real estate? Oh, wait, he's one of those modern day mobsters that runs a gambling outfit, right? What respectable lines of work...........
I don't give a rat's a@@ what Steve Wynn eats. He got into drugs? So what's new, so did his brother. Blame it on the food you eat. LOL At least I know never to go his buffet, boy, would I ever be pissed off to spend that kind of money and have them tell me, NO Meat!
Holy sh%t, I am never going to take such heavy-duty painkillers like Fentanyl or Dilaudid. These drugs look more like killers than like painkillers to me.
Way to go, Mr. Wynn, ...we will definitely live better, if we give some respect to Planet Earth and start eating veggies, instead of killing cows or chickens, who lived a horrible life, for some steaming meat on our plates.
It's good to have a healthy diet. But, sorry to disappoint you Steve, but you're still going to get old(er) and DIE!!! And, all of the money in the world can't stop that from happening.
veganism isn't just dietary. it means no animal products whatsoever (like wearing leather or having leather interior in your car) or using products that are animal tested. most people that claim to be vegan aren't and have no idea what it really means and are just trying to be preachy and trendy. how many people claim to be a vegan or vegetarian because they eat fish or chicken "but not red meat"?
Does Steve wear vinyl shoes?
Bam you are right on.
C'mon, stop talking bs here, guys, ...mmhhhh, let's see: 'painkillers like Fentanyl or Dilaudid' simultaneously prescribed, so
why does not anybody finally yell: "Stop, 'nuff said, enuff is enuff!"
and ask the guys from IT at Johnson&Johnson for that MerlinNT application to be made available not only for analysis/reporting of side effects caused by risperidone et al., but also for prescriptive painkillers, prescribed simultaneously.
Collecting those patients' data cannot be too hard, since many many people do use these prescriptive drugs from time to time and give feedback to their doctors.
Nobody wants a guy like Steve Wynn to be the next victim of simultaneously prescribed painkillers. What do you say, guys? Come on, let's do IT! We'd like to know which combinations of painkillers could lead to sudden death of human beings.
http://www.jnj.com/connect/
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/johnso...
I'd bet mfa they still got that analysing application, cannot be too hard to fix it for painkillers. C'mon.
Come on, who's from Yuma (AZ)? Who's in the software business? Nick, what'd you say? I'd say, let's do IT!
Of course, he's tired and irritable all the time. That's why he fired Andrew....
So, Kats, how did Mister Wynn like your report?
I'm sure he's pleased about the detailed retelling of his addiction to painkillers and subsequent withdrawal.
He probably thought your story would be strctly about his diet.
It's very exciting when powerful people like President Bill Clinton and now hotel mogul Steve Wynn decide to become vegans, especially when they're doing it for health reasons. Hopefully they will inspire untold numbers of people to go vegan to improve their own health.
There is also a step beyond vegan, and that is what is known as raw vegan or raw foodie. Raw food is not rabbit food. It's an inventive and highly nutritious fine dining cuisine that chefs have been developing and refining for about two decades. When you eat this way, your health improves and you lose excess weight, look younger than you are, and feel great. Scientific studies confirm that foods that are baked, fried, grilled and roasted cause aging and chronic disease in the people who eat them because the heating process creates harmful chemicals called acrylamides.
I'm excited that an e-book I wrote featuring 50 delicious raw vegan recipes is now available in Kindle format (very convenient for traveling) as well as in a PDF version with color photos.
Judy Pokras
author
The Little e-Book of Raw Vegan Holiday Recipes