August 2020
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Neat Utah Places to Explore – If You Can Get In
As if Utah doesn’t have an endless supply of natural landscapes and historic sites to discover, the state is also packed with mysterious underground wonders just begging to be explored…
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Squaw Peak Road – My favorite Sunday drive in Utah
Squaw Peak Road is my favorite Sunday drive in Utah. The out-of-car outdoor recreational opportunities are too numerous to list, but include lots of native flora and fauna viewing, many…
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Red Acre Center – Community-Supported Agriculture Program Offers Fresh, Local Food
The nonprofit Red Acre Center for Food and Agriculture lobbies for legislation that boosts community-supported agriculture programs, or CSAs. The for-profit Red Acre Farm sells shares in the operation, and…
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Grafton – A Silver Screen Ghost Town
Covered in dust and aged by tragedy, there’s an old town situated outside of Zion National Park. Now a ghost town, Grafton was repeatedly abandoned by Mormon settlers because of…
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Onewheel World Championship Race Promises to be a Must See Event
Future Motion, maker of the popular Onewheel electric boards, today announced the details of its 2020 edition of Race for the Rail—an off-road Onewheel race that will take place at…
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Dog Days of Summer – New Menus & Dog-Friendly Dining at Hearth and Hill
For this week’s dining adventure the missus and I masked up and headed to Hearth and Hill restaurant in Park City to check out the new summer menu there.
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Carson Kitchen Opens and OCA Virtual Cooking Class
Salt Lake City is now home to Carson Kitchen, a restaurant specializing in comfort food classics and craft cocktails. Due to Covid-19, Ogden Contemporary Arts is not able to host…
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Creole Catfish Recipe
Here is a really simple method for cooking Creole style blackened catfish on the grill. One benefit of cooking the fish in a pan on the outdoor grill is that…
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Chanson Viré-Clessé: an Affordable White Burgundy from France
Domaine Chanson Viré-Clessé 2017 is a (relatively) affordable white Burgundy from France, named for two villages – Viré and Clessé – in the heart of the Mâcon appellation in the…
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Fringe Gambling in Utah- New Law Takes Another Swipe at a Persistent Pastime
Whether in the form of poker games in mining town saloons to less obvious games of chance such as church raffles, gambling has been a secret vice in Utah since…
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Spelunking in Utah – Exploring the Vast World Beneath – Cavers Take Their Sightseeing Underground
The Beehive State’s underground world, shaped by water, minerals and time, is filled with colorful formations like helictites — hollow twiglike deposits of calcite or aragonite — and the aptly-named…
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Hidden Utah
Utah is a massive place. In twelve years of writing Utah Stories, I can still say I’ve only seen a small fraction of this incredible state. Every year if I…
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The Comforts of Home – Global Comfort Food Recipes for the Home Cook
for this week, I’m sharing some of my favorite recipes from the Scheff’s Table column: comfort food dishes from around the world, from schnitzel and fried rice to chile verde…
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Goldener Hirsch Inn Reopens and SaltFire Beer Dinner at Franck’s
On August 12th the Goldener Hirsch Restaurant will open for the remainder of the 2020 summer season. On Monday, August 24th, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Franck’s restaurant will team up…
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Roosters Ogden Double IPA
Although described by the brewers as a “hop bomb,” I found the hops in Roosters Ogden Double IPA to be very well-integrated and not at all over the top. By…