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Chef’s Profile: Real Foods Market and Café
The omnivore’s solution.—by Jane Laird Redmond Heritage Farm in Redmond, Utah, was founded with the aim to supply the most healthful, nutrient-dense, natural and wholesome meat, da …
Chef Profile: Himalayan Kitchen
Nepalese homestyle cooking in the mountains of Utah.—by Jane Laird The remedy for one of those recent cold, dark and drizzly Saturdays was easy enough: to bask in the warming comfo …
Chef Profile: Lumi Bistro
Lumi Bistro in downtown SLC.—by Jane Laird In the original Parisian sense, a bistro is a small and usually chef-owned neighborhood restaurant serving rustic, casual food. Chalkboar …
Comings & Goings: September 2013
What’s new around town.—by Jane Laird Earth Goods General Store is now in Downtown SLC Earth Goods General Store has moved to 327 East Broadway (300 South) in Salt Lake City. After …
Tea Culture: The Emperor’s Tea
Meet some tea purists, M.C. (Michael) Rivetti and Jason Woodland —CEO/president and vice president respectively of The Emperor’s Tea. This Salt Lake-based company’s mission is to p …
Comings & Goings: February 2013
What’s new around town.by Jane Laird Wasatch Community Gardens welcomes new executive director Ashley Patterson is the new executive director of Wasatch Community Gardens. …
Chef Profile: Finca
Old World dining with a modern, casual flair.—by Jane Laird Your friends want to meet somewhere. Sit and relax. Enjoy craft cocktails and good wine. Order food whenever you want—pl …
Holiday Gift Guide
We canvassed the CATALYST community to get some experts’ best ideas for gifts that readers would appreciate giving and getting this season. They came up with interesting, artistic …
Trekking to Nepal via Downtown Salt Lake
The Kathmandu2 is an easy trek from the U and the Avenues.—by Jane Laird Awe and envy. That is what I feel when hearing about friends’ travels to Nepal. Wedged between India and Ch …
CATALYST Culinary Culture
Culture Reporter. Cross Pollinator. Change Agent—perfect terms to encapsulate 30 years of food reporting from a magazine that was deliberately christened “CATALYST.” It has been a …
Chef Profile: Café Supernatural
Ancient healing cuisine is fresh, quick and convenient at the new Café Supernatural. Utahns already admire entrepreneur chef Ian Brandt as originator of some of the area’s most suc …
Chef Profile: Squatters Pub Brewery
Brewing a more sustainable future. It turns out that it is not possible to profile the iconic, beloved, 22-year-old Squatters Pub Brewery in 800 words. What slice of experience can …
Chef Profile: Blue Star Juice and Espresso Bar
Good health, community engagement and bike repair converge on the Canyon Rim. I remember how welcoming the local London pubs felt on my first visit there years ago. Within the warm …
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"Smile, observe and learn so you can plan your own version of these rites of passage. Learn from the past just don’t get a PhD in it."--Dennis Hinkamp on the good and bad nostalgic tendencies.
Slightly Off Center: September 2018 | Catalyst Magazine
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Nostalgia at the shallow end Nostalgia is a public pool filled with warm memories at the shallow end, but in the deep end there be monsters disguised as beguiling Sirens. You may enter smiling but drown there if you are not careful. Take your ex-spouse, ex-dog or ex any-no-longer-living human being....