In colonial days, election days were very much celebrated. Celebration included speeches, parades, and festive food. Of course, celebration is synonym of good food. One of the most characteristic foods was a cake full of raisins and candied citrus peel, very much in the British tradition of fruit cakes.
It started like this: I was 18 years old, on the beginning of a new life, in a new home, and too young to buy alcohol legally. The problem was, I really liked wine. I had been drinking it socially for years, but on someone else’s dime.
Unless you are in Las Vegas, where you can eat anything from anywhere in the world, Nevada serves typical American fare mostly. This is the kind of food you will find in small towns, those with only one diner in a hundred miles radius.
