![]() ![]() This year, Fisher found ways to utilize their beer, taproom space and canning capabilities for good. Tim Dwyer, Co-owner of Fisher Brewing Company The 2021 Blue Plate Awards are sponsored by Spark Solutions. They were unearthed from a morass of scrawled notes, emails and random laptop files labeled “BLU PLAT.” And we dedicate them to her, our town’s biggest food fan, critic and champion, xoxomm. These are Mary’s awards, the last that she’ll preside over. DON’T EAT THAT, throw off the chains that bind you,” she’d say with her typical smirk. It was about living and, also, a living for the people who deserve recognition and love. Mary preached constantly that food is about more than a price point-it is fun, friends, conversation. A doting aunt who urged us to sit up straight and at least try the foie gras. She loved the classic Borscht Belt joke: “‘How’s the food?’ ‘Terrible but the portions are amazing!” She used it often as the punch line to what she saw wrong with the chain-heavy culinary experience in Utah. Cajoling, teasing the best from the back of the house and lecturing Utah diners on not just where to eat but how to eat and to dare their palates and pocketbooks on local food. She was critical on both sides of that divide. But she also knew the language of dining, being served and what a diner should expect. Mary spoke the language of the kitchen, the lingo of servers, the banter of the bar-the Esperanto of anyone who has ever waited on a table, slung a drink, cleaned a grease trap or prepped on the line. They’ve created culture, made acts of kindness and education and are paragons of service that goes beyond. Mary Brown Malouf, Salt Lake’s executive editor from 2007 to 2020, xoxommĪs Mary conceived, a Blue Plate is given to an establishment or an individual who has done more than put good food on the table. ![]() The 2021 Blue Plate Awards are the first-ever without our Mary bringing them across the finish line. In many ways, as Mary and I discussed before her passing, this year’s awards are given for merely surviving. It was especially hard on the hospitality sector. This past year, well, was “just awful,” as our dearly departed Executive Editor Mary Brown Malouf said often. Each Year, Salt Lake Magazine hosts the Blue Plate Awards, honoring the growers, food evangelists, grocers, servers, bakers, chefs, bartenders, restaurateurs-basically anyone who has a hand in the essential act of feeding us and does so with grace, style, creativity and care. ![]()
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