Monthly Food Boxes from Spice Kitchen
Spice Kitchen Incubator (751 W. 800 South, 385-229-4484, spicekitchenincubator.org) has been busy developing new ways for their chefs to flourish during the pandemic. One of their most exciting ideas is the monthly community food box, a pre-composed dinner that includes seasonal eats ready to enjoy at home. Most recently, Spice Kitchen featured their
feminista box to celebrate International Women s Day. Chef Merab Maciel of The Salseria included cheese enchiladas and chicken
pozole, while Chef Emma of La Pizca Andina included
pastelitos de carne, which are savory meat-filled pastries packaged with homemade salsa. Subscribe to the Spice Kitchen online newsletter for info about future community food boxes.
Having first visited Makers Landing in August 2020, when it was a construction site requiring great imagination to visualise the end result, it was heartening to return in February 2021 to witness the dreams come to life.
It is part of the cruise ship terminal – that part is still in the future – but the space has come to life pretty much as project manager West Wilkinson outlined it last year. There are on-site artisans baking and brewing, a sit-down restaurant, a huge bar and seating area (destined to become a market), pods selling cheeses and chicken wings, a demo kitchen and an incubator which is nurturing new food entrepreneurs.
Here are 21 black-owned restaurants, food trucks and bakeries to support in Utah
(Photo courtesy of Sheer Ambrosia Bakery) Owner Rita Magalde makes baklava at her Sheer Ambrosia Bakery. | Updated: Feb. 5, 2021, 3:11 p.m.
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While thousands are making a statement about injustice at marches, protests and vigils, many Utahns have found an additional way to fight racial inequity.
They are spending their dining dollars at restaurants, food trucks and bakeries owned by people of color.
“For a white person who is not comfortable going to a protest,” said Rita Magalde, owner of Sheer Ambrosia Bakery, “this is another way to support black Americans.”
| Updated: March 11, 2021, 3:03 p.m.
Marcus Jones said his Utah barbecue sauce and catering company launched in 2003, but it really began more than a century ago in Arkansas.
The Southern recipe originated with Jones’ great-grandfather, who passed it on to his grandmother Miss Essie. She passed it to her son, Manuel, who then launched the business with Jones a former University of Utah football player.
Miss Essie’s is one of dozens of Black-owned restaurants, food trucks, markets, caterers and producers in Utah.
A heightened push to back these businesses began last summer, when many consumers decided one way to fight racial inequity was to frequent Black-owned businesses. Since then, though, the focus has waned.