“I love experiencing the a-ha moment when students realize how fun cooking can be,” says Diane Sheya who, with her husband Rich, own the Salt Lake Culinary Center. With 20+ years of teaching experience, Sheya has a passion for teaching people to cook. “There are so many people who do not enjoy cooking because they simply do not know how.” When I noticed the Vietnamese Wok … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
Keeping It Real in Urban Farming
Tyler Montague did not grow up on a farm. He didn’t even realize the importance of good food until his college days. But something about growing food and agriculture got his attention, so much so that four years ago he began his business, Keep It Real Vegetables. Tyler is now a successful, full-time urban farmer who sells his organic produce to many of the high-end local … [Read more...]
Utah Farms by the Numbers
Bown Dairy: Industrial Utah Farm
Utah’s Highway 89 meanders between small towns offering a window to the past look at how ranching and rural living were before high speed travel. A time when “locavore” wasn’t a buzzword but a necessity. Country residents had to be self-reliant. Homesteading meant that each farmer produce a wide variety of products that their household required, and used money only for what … [Read more...]
Redmond Heritage Farms
Grass-fed Dairy Farm Redmond is one of those places you wouldn’t know existed unless you eschew I-15 and travel south on Highway 89. Compared to the interstate, this two-lane thoroughfare feels like an old country road. This area has a ranching tradition dating back more than 100 years, a tradition maintained by places like the Burns Cowboy Shop in Salina, arguably the … [Read more...]
Petersen Family Farm
Farming in today’s world is as challenging as Utah’s weather Once an area far away in the Salt Lake Valley distance, Riverton is now full-scale suburbia complete with a busy highway. Surrounded by many homes and neighbors, The Petersen Family Farm has had to adapt to farming in today’s world on land that has been in the family for five generations. The farm has been modified … [Read more...]
Summer Fun in Utah by Alexandra, age 9 and Maya, age 6
Coming up with things to do in summertime Utah can be hard to do. Utah Stories has turned to two experts to help you out. Alexandra - Age 9 It is fun to: 1. Play tennis and soccer outside in the summer. 2. Play football, swim, tumble and play kickball in the summer. 3. Go to Lagoon and ride Wicked and Colossus over and over. 4. Go camping with my family. 5. … [Read more...]
Ruth’s Diner opens Ruth’s Creekside
Ruth chain-smoked cigarettes, drank beer and hard liquor, and lived to be 94-years-old. She passed away in 1989, but Ruth would be proud to know that her namesake is now the home of Salt Lake City’s first private liquor/grocery store. Well, sort of. “It’s not exactly a private liquor store,” says Ruth’s Diner owner Erik Nelson. “We buy and sell the liquor and beer at the … [Read more...]
Queenadilla
Barely Controlled Chaos is Their Secret to Success Queenadilla’s front man Chase McKnight picked up guitar only three years ago. A lot of practice and natural talent, combined with dumb luck, have led to unexpected success. He got his first electric guitar only a month before jamming with his second cousin, guitarist Nick Mayberry. They then brought on drummer Stacey … [Read more...]
Sugar House Prison Farm
At the base of the Sugar House Monument sits a bronze statue of a woman, said to represent the fertility of the Salt Lake Valley. Local lore says the figure denotes agriculture, while the male figure on the other side signifies industry. Both enterprises were successful in pioneer-era Sugar House, and surprisingly, most evident at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary. Brigham … [Read more...]