Authors: Amanda Rock
Downtown Farmers Market Opening Day @ Pioneer Park 06.08
Taking over Pioneer Park on Saturdays with extended hours from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m, the Downtown Farmers Market in Salt Lake has become a one-stop shop for local, organic produce and artisan food products. If you can’t find it here, you probably shouldn’t eat it. … read more
Middle Eastern Cooking @ Caputo’s 06.09
An intimate group of about ten people gathered in the deli of Caputo’s Market downtown on a Tuesday night, hungry and eager to learn. … read more
Beer Flows Through Salt Lake at the Utah Beer Festival...
On Saturday, August 17 from 3–8 p.m., over 100 local and national breweries gathered at Gallivan Plaza to share samples of beer for a great cause, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for the fourth annual Utah Beer Festival. … read more
On The Edge of The Bed
The beautiful Hotel Monaco in downtown Salt Lake City was the setting for On the Edge of the Bed, a “ tastefully sexy” seminar presented by The Healing Group, a women’s clinic located in Holladay. … read more
Salt Lake Welcomes the Winter Market
Last winter the Downtown Salt Lake City Farmers Market held pop-up markets as a solution to the winter funk. They were enjoyable monthly events held at various places downtown where you could stock up on local goodies and get your food truck fix, but the strong demand for a year-round market warranted a better solution: The Winter Farmers Market at the Rio Grande Depot. … read more
Meatless Mondays at the Salt Lake Culinary Center
Julia Child said, “People who love to eat are always the best people,” and I agree. We were proven correct at The Salt Lake Culinary Center’s Meatless Monday:Vegetarian Basics class. … read more
Sundance Film Review: This May Be The Last Time
Sharing the story of his grandfather’s disappearance in Sasakwa, Oklahoma in 1962, and other personal stories of his family, this film gives insight into a small community that supported each other through a difficult time, both physically and spiritually. … read more
Mastering Martinis: Shaken, Not Stirred
I saw the Mastering Martinis class listed on the website for the University of Utah’s Lifelong Learning Classes and knew I had to be there. You’re not supposed to drink the fist martini—they expected you to sample it and put it back in the shaker with varying degrees of vermouth. Baffling. If you put a drink in front of me, I’m going to drink it. With that hiccup behind me, the rest of the class went smoothly. … read more
Chocolate: The Exhibit @ The Natural History Museum of Utah
Chocolate: The Exhibit seizes you the moment you enter. The heady scent of chocolate leads you through incarnations of the cacao bean in this exhibit developed by the Field Museum in Chicago. … read more
Stick Your Whole Nose In It: A Kiler Grove Wine...
A rowdy group of retirees, my husband and I gathered in the winery. Tables were set in up the warehouse amid huge barrels of wine and machinery. Michael Knight, part owner and winemaker, meticulously explained the art of winemaking, or “voodoo” as he calls it. … read more
Beer and Ballet: A Fun Night with Ballet West and...
Beer and Ballet, a fundraiser for Ballet West, was a magnificent event. Guests enjoyed an elegant gala (with beer!) and a preview of “The Rite of Spring.” Epic Brewing co-hosted the evening, providing bottles of a few of their most popular brews. Mingling in the lobby of the beautiful Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, delectable bites were served by The Annex, Epic’s gastro-pub located in Sugarhouse, in addition to Epic Brewing’s ales and lagers. I happily used my three drink tickets (and one of my husband’s) on the Spiral Jetty IPA. Food and beer lines moved quickly and service was friendly. … read more
Animal Inside Out: A Body Worlds Exhibit
The Leonardo’s newest exhibit, Animal Inside Out, is a menagerie of creatures preserved through the art of plastination, where the fat and water in a body is replaced by plastic. The result is startlingly, beautiful and eerie. … read more
