With a Measure of Grace recounts with sensitivity and wit the tale of a women-owned, Buddhist- based restaurant becoming a community anchor in a small Mormon town. Within the book's 176 beautiful, color-photographed pages, former backcountry caterers and professional river chefs Blake Spalding and Jen Castle share their struggles and successes as the coowners of Hell's Backbone Grill. Spalding and Castle began with the goal to meld their ideas of place-based, seasonally appropriate cuisine, right livelihood, environmental ethics and social and community responsibility into a restaurant they would operate with compassion, generosity, loving kindness and grace. They were unaware at the time that given the unusual circumstances of their venture, this plan would be the restaurant's only chance of survival. Located in the heart of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Boulder, Utah, was the last town in the nation to receive year-round mail by automobile. Today it has no stoplight, cell phone service, ATM, grocery store or medical facilities. But it has Zagat-rated Hell's Backbone Grill, which despite all odds, has won the acclaim of national and international media. Sixtyfive favorite recipes accompany charming anecdotes, old-fashioned rural wisdom and introductions to captivating local characters, making With a Measure of Grace a warm and earthy, unforgettable read.

With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Blake Spalding

Jennifer Castle

Lavinia Spalding

Cooking Education & Reference

Provecho Press

This Immeasurable Place: Food and Farming from the Edge of Wilderness is the long-awaited second cookbook from James-Beard nominated Hell's Backbone Grill and Farm in Boulder, Utah. This Immeasurable Place continues the inspiring story of how two women-chef-co-owners Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle-started their award-winning, Buddhist-based, farm-to-table restaurant in a tiny, traditionally Mormon town on the edge of the magnificent Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Filled with seventy new recipes; gorgeous images by world-famous photographer Ace Kvale; and stories of the restaurant, organic farm, and town, This Immeasurable Place is much more than a cookbook. It's a food-justice primer, a guide to eating consciously, and a meditation on connecting community to land and table.

This Immeasurable Place: Food and Farming from the Edge of Wilderness

HBG Press

Blaire

Blaire Cooks Up A Plan

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants meets 13 Little Blue Envelopes in this new young adult novel about a tight-knit, daring, and eclectic group of friends who dedicate every summer to completing their #SummerSistersBucketList together – that is until one of their own passes away.\nEvery year since they can remember, Daniella, her cousin Carly, and their friends Penny and Lainie (the #SummerSisters) have spent their summers together at the Jersey Shore in the town of Ocean Park Heights, creating and completing a summer bucket list. With Carly as the mastermind, the list ranges from the silly to the practically impossible, and it’s the highlight of the summer for these four best friends.\nBut this summer, everything is going to be different, because last winter, Carly—their leader, their glue, their everything—passed away.\nAs the remaining #SummerSisters try to wrap their heads around their best friend’s death, life seems determined to throw more curveballs at them, threatening to split them up for good. Daniella is accepted at a prestigious music academy in New York City, Lainie learns her family is moving out of Ocean Park Heights, and Penny is distracted by a new job and a new boyfriend.\nThen Daniella uncovers a treasure like no other—a bucket list for this summer tucked away in Carly’s signature seashell purse. And just like that, the #SummerSisters have an opportunity to unite and fulfill Carly’s last adventure for them all. But will the list be enough to hold them together for one final summer?

When We Had Summer

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Disney/Hyperion

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