Topic: Eat
Spice Kitchen Incubator
Refugees are encouraged to follow their dreams of starting their own food businesses with the help provided by Spice Kitchen Incubator. SPICE, an acronym for supporting the pursuit …
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Plant Sex Ed
What you should know before deciding to save your plant’s seeds for replanting Becoming more self reliant and resilient was one of the main reasons I began gardening almost 20 year …
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A Utahn invented Peru’s national drink: The Pisco Sour
Local history. “In Morris’ Bar I ordered a pisco sour. It tasted like a pleasant soft drink and I ordered another, to which the bartender objected, informing me that one was usuall …
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Bee Fest 2018 Call for Exhibitors, Volunteers, Sponsors
If you have any ideas, or a desire to lend a helping hand, please fill in this form HERE. As we approach CATALYST’s first time presenting Bee Festival 2018, on June 16 at the Wasat …
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The Ark of Taste
Food connects us—to feelings, memories, seasons Over 100 years ago, the citizens of Charleston, South Carolina noted the beginning of summer with the appearance of street-side vend …
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Learning to Love Real Food
A teacher finds that embracing new experiences may lead to a shift in perception I’m always thinking about food—what to cook and eat, what restaurant to try. At the small private c …
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Briefly Noted: Handy App to Reduce Food Waste, Feed More People
Growing, processing, packaging and transporting food requires a lot of energy and results in more pollution than we might imagine. In America, we waste 40% of the food that is grow …
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Briefly Noted: An Amaranth Love Affair
Amaranth is high in protein: Eat them for muscles like Mr. Clean! When a dear friend gave Sue Click a few Love-Lies-Bleeding plants seven years ago, Sue was thrilled that she final …
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Briefly Noted: Winter Market at Rio Grande
You may be surprised at what edibles grow in Northern Utah in the winter. Salt Lake City’s Winder Market offers grass-fed, organic locally raised meats. There are eggs like you’ve …
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SLC’s Newest Jazz Club, Avant Groove opens up on Pierpont
This is the place (to build a jazz club) David Arrellano It’s natural for cities like New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago to have incredible jazz clubs. The owner …
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Amour Café
Made of music, mothering, and magic. Amour Spreads technically began in 2010 on John and Casee Francis’ second wedding anniversary hike in Idaho. They had asked for a sign from the …
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The Inner Ecologist: Love Your Microbiome
Eat fermented (cultured) foods! When you hear the word “fermentation,” what comes to mind? For most people, it’s wine. Or beer, or spirits. What—you don’t do alcohol? It’s still po …
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Counting Miles, Not Calories
Awareness improves dietary carbon footprint. Three years ago, as a new intern at CATALYST Magazine, one of my first assignments was to track my “food mileage” for a day. Tracking f …
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First SLUG Mag On Tap Supports Local Craft Brewers
Over 20 breweries from around the state came to pour pints in the heart of Gateway Saturday, July 1. The fundraiser for the Utah Brewers Guild, hosted by our friends at SLUG Magazi …
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Judge Shelby strikes down “Ag-Gag” laws to protect first amendment rights.
On Friday, July 7th, Federal Judge Robert Shelby deemed Utah’s agricultural industry protection law known as an “ag-gag” law to be a violation of free speech in his 31 page ruling. …
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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....