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Episode 173 Bathtub Hummus

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We had the pleasure for episode 173 to sit down with restaurateur and activist, Moudi Sbeity. Moudi is the owner of Laziz Kitchen in downtown Salt Lake City.

Moudi has taken a different restaurant approach with Laziz. Blending a mix of East meets West, offering a place where bread can be broken, and creating a safe space in the community for SLC LGBTQ+ population. Moudi has found a way to run a restaurant on empathy. Moudi told us that growing up his grandmother had 2 restaurants in Beirut and every day his memories consisted of his mother or grandmother cooking for him. With these memories in hand, Moudi has created a menu and space that represents these memories. When you visit Laziz you may be expecting Lebanese food, however Moudi has infused French, Italian, and Mediterranean cuisine to create his menu. It also changes based on the seasons *winter/spring and summer/fall.*

Moudi started his dream, not really in a bathtub, by creating their famous hummus. If you haven’t had a chance to try it, it is recommended by all of us. He took 7 years of adjusting the flavor and perfecting the creaminess. You can find it, and their other super delicious sauces, at the Saturday Downtown Farmers market as well as at a handful of local grocers. On a celebratory note, November 2019 will be three years that Laziz has been part of the SLC/UT restaurant community.

Laziz Illustration by Rookland

Laziz is growing. Offering a new drag show once a month to give local performers of all art types showcase their talents, and in the future they want expand the restaurant to have a lounge.

We personally would like to help Moudi find an artist to paint the pride flag and a representation of the queer community on the side of their building because their pride flag has been desecrated three times, as of this recap. If you know an artist that would be willing to donate the time, please let us know!

You can follow Laziz on their website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for beautiful pictures of their food, upcoming menu updates, and events!

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Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.

Episode 169 Behold… It’s Folk Hogan

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We’ve had Nick Passey join us on past shows. Our show has opened for two years with a little piece of music from Folk Hogan (Bootleggers Dance), alas… it was time that we had more members of the band join us! The band of mighty souls!!

Nick is gritty as the guitarist. Moses is marvelous on the mandolin. Canyon is astounding on the accordion. Kameron breaks out the beats on the banjo. Jared batters the bass. And Curtis, even though he is dead to us at the moment… he detonates the drums!!! And they all sat down with us for episode 169.

Photo: Jessica Richardson

We talk with the band, except Curtis, about the origins of Folk Hogan. The tender beginnings and line up changes. We learned about the official Folk Hogan game called beerball! Behold is their first album release in 4 years and it’s solid! You can download on your favorite streaming service or better yet, buy in from their website. Folk Hogan will be touring Europe during the month of September and you can always catch them for local shows and events around Utah and sometimes out of state. There was a lot of silly non-sense talk from Planned Parenthood to Utah high school mascots on this episode, which truly make for a great laugh. The band members are super smart and super witty! We look forward to having them back.

  • Nick Passey and Moses McKinley
    Photo: Jessica Richardson
  • Canyon Elliott
    Photo: Jessica Richardson
  • Moses Mckinley
    Photo: Jessica Richardson
  • Nick Passey and Kameron Anton
    Photo:Jessica Richardson
  • Nick Passey And Canyon Elliott
    Photo: Jessica Richardson

Very important PSA… if you are giving Folk Hogan alcohol at a show, please don’t give them Fireball!!

Follow Folk Hogan on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates on upcoming shows. And buy their album, Behold!!

We will ALWAYS love your “likes” BUT don’t forget to click that little SHARE button (or retweet) *sharing IS indeed caring* You can find us and subscribe on Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, or Itunes, and Google Play and TuneIN. Leave us a review and Follow us on the Twitter @tnupodcast, Instagram @Tnupodcast, or on Facebook The New Utah Podcast

Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.

Utah’s One Thing: Derek Kitchen, Utah Senator District 2

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Since we started our show in 2016, we have been asking our guests at the end of every New Utah interview, “What is the one thing that you would tell someone visiting Utah they had to do before leaving?”

Episode 126 we had the honor of sitting down with Derek Kitchen, Senator for District 2. Derek had a great list of things that he would tell someone visiting Utah that they must do before leaving! Derek’s first item would be to visit Utah’s cultural arts. He said to visit the Granary Row district mural program. Derek said you have to visit Utah’s Brewery’s (the link is just a handful of breweries that exist in Utah) and partake in some of Utah’s own cocktails. Also, head over to Temple Square and visit Space Jesus… aka the Christus statue of Jesus in the visitor center. But we most definitely prefer Space Jesus.

Photo: http://cosmologicsmagazine.com/author/lhw135/

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Music By Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.