Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Author: Jeremy Pugh
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1681060736

Where can you find a chunk of the Matterhorn enshrined at a Utah ski resort? What is the origin of Josepa, the Hawaiian ghost town in the desert? And why is Utah called the Beehive State? You hold in your hands the answers to these questions and more in this guide to the oddities, wonders, myths, and legends of Utah’s capital city. Secret Salt Lake City opens a window into the weird, the bizarre, and the obscure secrets of the city, some of which are hiding in plain sight. Founded by religious pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1847, its one-of-a-kind origin story makes Salt Lake City a rich backdrop for frontier grit, culture, and curious relics. Did you know that there is an alphabet hidden in your computer that was invented in Salt Lake City? What is the significance of the religious symbols on the Salt Lake Temple? And how did Sherlock Holmes solve a fictional mystery in London that originated in Utah? Lifetime resident and author Jeremy Pugh and Mary Brown Malouf unlock these mysteries and more to pull back the curtain on the secrets of Salt Lake City. This isn’t your traditional guidebook, and it will enrich your visit to the Crossroads of the West.

Salt Lake City Chef's Table

Salt Lake City Chef's Table
Author: Becky Rosenthal
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1493013335

Though the West was won years and years ago, the pioneer spirit lives on in Salt Lake City (SLC). The local food scene is ripe with opportunity and alive with food entrepreneurs filled with ideas that many thought would never take off in Salt Lake City?let alone fly. Salt Lake City may be known for a world-renowned choir and the Transcontinental Railroad’s Golden Spike, but it’s a modern, vibrant city that has held on to its pioneer spirit. And nowhere is that force stronger than in the local food scene, ripe with opportunity and ingenuity. The foodie community embraces collaboration and generosity, so local restaurants, bars, and suppliers—pardon the pun—feed on each other to reach greater heights. Entrepreneurs are serving everything from bone marrow to tumbleweed, while foraging for mushrooms and new ideas to elevate SLC and its culture. With 76 recipes for the home cook from the area's most celebrated eateries and showcasing over 200 full-color photos featuring mouth-watering dishes, famous chefs, and lots of local flavor, Salt Lake City Chef's Table is the ultimate gift and keepsake cookbook for both tourists and residents alike.

Salt Lake City, 1890-1930

Salt Lake City, 1890-1930
Author: Gary Topping
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738570747

Between 1890 and 1930, Salt Lake City experienced some of the most rapid and profound changes of any city in U.S. history. In its pioneer period, from the beginning of white settlement in 1847 to about 1890, the city struggled against outside pressures to maintain its identity as a self-sufficient Mormon utopian community, with its theocratic government, agricultural economy, and polygamous society. But by the turn of the 20th century, Mormonism had largely abandoned those features, and Salt Lake City was becoming like most other American cities as it embraced capitalism, the evolution of transportation and industry, ethnic and cultural diversity, women's rights, and modern entertainment.

Appropriate: A Provocation

Appropriate: A Provocation
Author: Paisley Rekdal
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1324003596

A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination. How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calcified—in our political climate. What follows is a penetrating exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter Ho Davies to Jeanine Cummins. Lucid, reflective, and astute, Appropriate presents a generous new framework for one of the most controversial subjects in contemporary literature.

The Avenues of Salt Lake City

The Avenues of Salt Lake City
Author: Karl T. Haglund
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1980
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780913738313

This book deals with both the history and architecture of the Avenues Historic District -- primarily a residential district -- of Salt Lake City.

A Pinch of Salt Lake

A Pinch of Salt Lake
Author: Junior League of Salt Lake City
Publisher: Junior League of Salt Lake
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1986
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780961697204

In print since 1986, A Pinch of Salt Lake is in as much demand as ever. The 430 triple-tested recipes, from gourmet fare to quick-and-easy meals, continue to tantalize and delight, as cooks make them time and time again. That's why this timeless cookbook is the perfect gift for everyone from new brides to seasoned cooks.

Historic Photos of Salt Lake City

Historic Photos of Salt Lake City
Author: Jeff Burbank
Publisher: Historic Photos
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781596523852

Founded by Mormon pioneers seeking a place to practice their religion, Salt Lake City became a center of regional commerce, fueled by mining and the completion of the Union Pacific and local railroads. It ultimately attracted residents from all parts of Europe, as well as Mexico, China, and Japan. Historic Photos of Salt Lake City captures the story of this unique community through still photography selected from the finest collections, a visual record of the city's history presented in striking black-and-white photographs. From the building of the magnificent Mormon Temple and Tabernacle to the establishment of America's first department store; from muddy streets to wide boulevards with park-like medians; from Greek grocery stores to Japanese-American baseball teams, Historic Photos of Salt Lake City tells a visual story of a unique American city.

Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City
Author: Dick Nourse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 9781881096580

As part of an online guide to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Salt Lake City Corporation provides information about the city. Some of the topics discussed include winter Olympics events, the weather, tourist attractions, restaurants, transportation, community development, educational institutions, housing, building and zoning, building permits, and housing and neighborhood development. The information is available in PDF format.