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February 19, 2025

Dottie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

By Matt

by Marcus Pace Tasting Room General Manager Photo credit Logan Walker Grandma Dottie had a way of bringing people together with her delicious cooking. It wasn’t just her culinary skills that made her special; it was the love and care she put into every dish she made. Whether she was whipping up a batch of […]

November 12, 2024

Banana Cream Pie

By Matt

by Mary Olsen Event Team Back of House Lots of people I work with at Culinary Crafts have known all their lives that they wanted to be chefs, but I am not one of those people. I didn’t grow up learning to cook at my mother’s elbow. I haven’t gone to culinary school. The joy […]

October 18, 2023

Chris’s Chili

By Matt

by Chris Brady Event Manager and True Raider Fan A while back, I was in a fantasy football league with some buddies I met online. It was a friendly group full of banter and smack talk, and, of course, with money on the line we also got super competitive. One year, one of our founding […]

October 17, 2023

Cacao-Bittered and Milk-Washed Antrim

By Matt

Last month, on our Bacchus bartending webpage, we shared a recipe for Milk-Washed Apple Cider. There, we promised to share the recipe for a milk-washed antrim cocktail that we made for a fabulous event using the same milk-washing technique. To make good on our promise, here is that recipe. Enjoy! Cacao-Bittered & Milk-Washed Antrim (makes […]

October 11, 2023

Championship Chili

By Matt

by Gary James Bar Logistics Manager   When my family was young, we rented a home in the Sugar House area in Salt Lake City. The neighborhood was old, and the homes either belonged to elderly couples or were being…

August 29, 2023

Shiitake Happens

By Matt

by Kaleb Crafts Co-President and Challenge Accepter   When I was fourteen, my family took a trip to Japan, a country near and dear to my father’s heart. For a high school-aged boy, it was a life-changing experience… sometimes in…

July 11, 2023

Guinness-Battered Onion Rings

By Matt

by Joey Howard Prep Chef My stepfather believed in a lot of things, but paying taxes was not one of them. He was retired from the Army, and he had his checks sent to PO boxes far away from our house so the government couldn’t track him down. We moved from state to state, running […]

July 5, 2023

Harvest Peach and Kale Salad

By Matt

by Lindsey Christiansen Field Kitchen Manager I started working at Culinary Crafts in 2002, the same year that we catered the Winter Olympics. Back then, it was very popular to garnish platters with loads of kale. We had kale under the vegetables, kale under the poached salmon, kale under everything! It was a very classy […]

June 27, 2023

How to Brew a Perfect Cup of Coffee

By Matt

by Ryan Crafts  COO and Coffee Zealot One cold early morning sometime in the fall of 1997, my high school buddy Justin (who had a car) asked if I wanted to skip out on early morning seminary and go get…

June 14, 2023

Where to Eat at Utah’s National Parks

By Matt

After a day spent exploring the hoodoos and petroglyphs of Bryce Canyon, hiking to Delicate Arch, or wading knee-deep in Zion’s Narrows, what could be better than sitting down to a fantastic meal? If you are among the millions of…

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