Buffet: All You Can Eat Las Vegas

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Natasha Schull
USA, documentary, 2006
28 mins. (MiniDV)
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Thanksgiving weekend, Las Vegas: a camera journeys through Sin City’s all-you-can-eat buffets and finds a kaleidoscope of characters behind the food — from tireless chefs preparing gargantuan bowls of ambrosia, to servers who bus endless plates, to local farmers who buy up buffet leftovers in bulk to feed their eager pigs, to hungry diners in search of a culinary jackpot and a portion of the American dream. 'The buffet is the happiest and saddest place,” says Pierre, a Haitian meat carver at the New Frontier’s buffet. Buffet: All You Can Eat Las Vegas brings the happiness and the sadness of the buffet to light, taking the audience on a wild gastronomic voyage behind the scenes of an all-American binge ritual.