With holiday events canceled, Utah caterers offer treats to go, holiday foods and delicious themed meals
Caterers are being creative and trying to adapt, but also hope for more government support.
By Julie Hirschi
| Dec. 13, 2020, 3:10 p.m.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Emery Lortsher holds a box of locally grown mushrooms for a Japanese dish, at The Blended Table, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020.
The December calendars of caterers and event planners are usually filled with weddings, celebrations and work and family holiday gatherings. But with the coronavirus pandemic this year, those calendars are empty.
Since Maxine Turner started her company, Cuisine Unlimited, in 1980, she’s seen the industry in Utah skyrocket especially after the 2002 Winter Olympics and also shrink slightly, after the recession in 2008. Still, nothing prepared her for this year.
Growing Rocks is an art exhibition at the
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art that envelops viewers in between time, catching them pondering their initial thoughts about nature and the very concept of time itself. Artist Brad Evan Taylor does not dabble in small, delicate sculptures, but rather ceramic masses that exist on a human scale, displaying the relation of these masses to the artist’s own body. Another interesting detail is that Taylor’s body is listed as one of the prominent tools in this exhibit’s construction. An important question that Taylor poses to us is, ”What does it take to give an object a sense of deep time, or even lack of linear time?” This question is made apparent by