Every time produce is scanned at the checkout line at the supermarket, a vote is cast. Whether you know it or not, that newly bought and mass-produced selection represents your vote for the big chain’s lower prices over local farmer’s quality assurance. This, according to Laurie Slater, employee at Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm, is one…
Restaurants are starting to recognize a growing dining trend that might not be good for business. Folks sit down at the table and immediately pick up their cell phones. Many never put them down. “I don’t get it.” Said Raoul Villa, a manager at Flagstaff’s Dara Thai restaurant. “People are so taken by their phones, there’s…
Thirteen years ago, Gluten Free Creations Bakery opened in Phoenix as the very first entirely gluten-free bakery in Arizona. Now there are more than 10 bakeries—along with several restaurants and coffee shops—listed in the Arizona Gluten Free Registry that offer a similar environment for gluten-free consumers to eat at ease. Research shows that the industry…
Tucson holds a weekend-long celebration to remember its dead. Sedona has a small gathering in a shopping center for Día de los Muertos. And in Tubac for the first time they are celebrating at a town park, resurrecting a festival that has been largely absent for years. But no matter where they celebrate and how,…
Southern Arizona’s largest folklife festival is celebrating its 41st year this weekend. Tucson Meet Yourself festival runs Friday through Sunday throughout downtown Tucson, attracting more than 100,000 people from throughout the region. “There is so much to the event,” said the festival’s volunteer operations director Hilary Walker. “From Jamaican cuisine, to Greek Orthodox clubs, to…
