Utah Food Fest returns to the Natural History Museum of Utah

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Food Fest is again on the Natural History Museum of Utah this weekend.

The weekend-long pageant celebrates Utah’s meals tradition and historical past, and could have foodies and culinary specialists all gathered in the identical place. Utah Food Fest runs via Sunday from 10 a.m. to five p.m.

What to anticipate at Utah Food Fest

Attendees can style the scrumptious flavors from Caputo’s Market & Deli, Beehive Cheese Company, Cache Toffee, Salsa Del Diablo and La Casa de la Empanada SLC, together with many different distributors providing up tasty treats.

Expert-led workshops will happen all through the occasion the place friends can learn to “craft custom seasonings, dip a perfect caramel apple or whip up weeds into delicious meals,” based on the discharge.

Foraging and cooking with crops

Chef and foraging knowledgeable Megan Bartley is main a workshop on foraging and cooking your individual meals utilizing wild crops. She focuses her presentation on crops yow will discover alongside the Wasatch Front — the crops she mentions could be discovered available in your individual entrance yard.

She might be speaking about three crops:

• Dandelions
• Purslane
• Dwarf mallow

“You’ll look at weeds in your yard in a completely new light,” Bartley stated.

Bartley started foraging when she lived in southern Utah and was pleasantly stunned by what number of crops we see on a regular basis are literally edible.

Some of her work was developed to point out within the exhibit “Nature All Around Us” that’s now a touring exhibition across the nation.

“Sourcing food yourself is really rewarding,” Bartley stated. “Although you’re not planting the foods yourself and tending to them, it’s still a connection with the food itself and with the land from which you’re sourcing it. That is pretty remarkable.”

People who attend her workshop will obtain precise recipes that go together with the crops she talks about foraging within the presentation. She desires to instill confidence in attendees that they’ll forage and cook dinner their very own meals from the crops they forage.

“I think that people can really gain a lot from that connection with the land, that connection with their food, harvesting it yourself, taking the time to learn about the food itself, how nutritious it is, what pairs well with it, … developing fun recipes,” Bartley stated.

Festival data

If attendees buy a workshop, it additionally contains admission into the museum. Some workshops are filling up, so friends are inspired to prebook admission and workshops if there’s an occasion they would love to attend.

“Food has always been an incredible unifier, bringing people together even before Utah became a state, and it’s still a delicious way to gather together community,” stated Jason Cryan, the museum’s Sarah B. George govt director, per a launch. “Yet this festival is about more than contemporary flavors and guests will have the opportunity to learn about the region’s rich history of food cultivation dating back to first peoples.”

Utah Food Festival Partners embrace the next:

• AmsterDam Delicious
• Artigliano Group
• Bad Boy Burger Co.
• Beehive Cheese Company BLLC
• Cache Toffee
• Caffe Ibis Coffee Roasters
• Caputo’s Market & Deli
• Chunky Cookies, LLC
• Drift Chocolates
• Grandma Sandino’s
• The Farmhouse at Saccos LLC
• Frog Bench Farms
• Fry Me to the Moon
• Han’s Kombucha
• JulieAnn Caramels
• Kimmie’s Kandies
• La Casa de la Empanada SLC
• Must Be Nuts
• Raw Eddy’s Superfood Snacks
• Salsa Del Diablo
• The Salted Roots
• Tea Grotto
• Wasatch Organics/White Lake Farms Honey
• Zoque LLC