Park City Ski Shot: Home Edition Kudos to the Park City Rotary Club, which managed to pull off a virtual fundraiser for the 5th Annual Park City Ski Shot event (Home Edition), which was held on Saturday, Oct 24th from the comfort of participants’ own homes. The Ski Shot - normally held on Park City’s Main Street - raised more than $20,000 to benefit the Rotary’s grant programs … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2020
Blue Sky Ranch Horse Thief Cocktail
During a recent visit and stay at Blue Sky Ranch in Wanship, my wife and I enjoyed cocktails prior to dinner in the bar adjacent to Yuta restaurant. I’ll be writing about that fabulous dinner soon in Utah Bites, so stay tuned. Anyway, we were chatting in the bar with Katie Zamarra, the wife of Yuta Executive Chef Galen Zamarra, who recommended that I try a cocktail called … [Read more...]
How to Make Spaetzle from Scratch
When I lived in New York City, my favorite "big splurge" restaurant was Lutece, the lauded townhouse-turned-restaurant of celebrated chef and owner Andre Soltner. --- Soltner was born in the Alsace region of France, a place where the tiny dumplings called spaetzle is a common side dish at meals. It’s also quite popular in Germany and is terrific alongside … [Read more...]
The Urban/Rural Divide in America and the West
It comes as no big surprise that once again what all of the pollsters and “experts” have been saying for the past few weeks is completely wrong. I have been gripping a lot about how much disdain I’m feeling for my peers in main-stream media because they are the reason why our country is becoming so divided. It seems today (if you watch the news) everyone … [Read more...]
Bollypop – A New Musical Fusion
I stood up from the fancy gold colored couch and smoothed out the wrinkles on my magenta gown. “Lub Dub, Lub Dub, Lub Dub.” My heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to explode. As I walked up on stage, my hands turned cold, my throat ran as dry as a desert ditch, and a trickle of sweat ran down my cheek. I had worked hours a day, days a week, and weeks a month … [Read more...]
Doing Well By Doing Good — A Visit to Bill White Farms
Driving into Park City on State Highway 224, you pass a collection of buildings and other structures that blend beautifully into the mountainside, and at night is lit up with a gorgeous array of thousands of colored Christmas lights. It’s pretty spectacular. But then, pretty much everything restaurateur Bill White builds is pretty spectacular, from his flagship Main Street … [Read more...]
LOCAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB EMPLOYEE NAMED 2020 MAYTAG DEPENDABLE LEADER
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake’s Dar Dixon Honored for Helping Young People Achieve Great Futures; Receives $20,000 Financial Grant for the Organization to Enhance Youth Development Programming Darlene “Dar” Dixon, Area Director for the Boys & Girls Club in Tooele, received a 2020 Maytag Dependable Leader Award for her tremendous commitment to helping youth … [Read more...]
Bacon – The New Temp Agency That’s Not a Temp Agency
Rashaad Nunnally is a musician, producer, engineer, and businessman. He calls himself an “one-stop renaissance man.” He is also a family man with bills to pay. To supplement his income he was working part-time for Salt Lake Community College commuting from Eagle Mountain. That is when a friend told him about Bacon, a company whose specialty is to find and help supply … [Read more...]