Review: This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions (U of U Press)
By August 3, 2021
Thanks to Dr. A. Griffin for this review!
On Pioneer Day this year, I sat in Florida, some 2,000 miles from my beloved Salt Lake City, feeling homesick. Nobody in Sarasota would even know what it meant if I wished them a happy 24th, let alone want to listen to me wax poetic about the cheese fries and dipping sauce at the Training Table (RIP) or hear out my opinions about what should or should not go in funeral potatoes. (Green onions, not regular onions. I will die on this hill.) Fortunately, I had an excellent companion for this bout of homesickness: This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions, edited by Carol A. Edison, Eric A. Eliason, and Lynne S. McNeill, a sprawling volume that is particularly interested in parsing the fine-grained details of Utah’s cuisine. Readers can ponder the foodways of indigenous people, Greek immigrants, Mormon settlers, Salt Lake City’s Nikkei Senior Center luncheons, and many other groups.
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