I’ve been living and working in Provo on and off for the last dozen years or so, and though I’d never dare to claim I know everything about this area, I used to think I at least had a semi-decent handle on the culinary side of things, especially working for the entertainment section of the ...

Creamy, a plethora of options, great service, fun — these are the words and phrases that immediately came to mind when I was thinking of ways to describe my experience on a recent evening visit to Bruster’s Real Ice Cream.The walk-up window ice cream shop opened just last month in Provo ...

I wish I could count the stacks upon stacks of Maruchan brand ramen I ate while serving my mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Seattle.Seattle has a very high cost of living and when we missionaries only got $160 each month for food, that meant a lot of ramen.I tried ...

If it can be made with croissant dough, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Biancas.La.Petite.French.Bakery/" target="_blank">Bianca’s La Petite French Bakery</a> in downtown Provo has probably mastered it.I was impressed with both the quantity and quality of the ...

There’s a popular saying, “When one door closes another one opens.” It probably wouldn’t be popular if it wasn’t true.We found the saying to be fitting last week as rain canceled practice plans for one of the youth baseball teams I coach. With a two-hour window suddenly opened up in ...

When the warm weather hits, it quickly begins to seem like the days get longer in more ways than one, with each day packed from dusk to dawn with things to do, regardless of what’s been scheduled.As if to prove that side-note hypothesis, last weekend somehow managed to be unbelievably busy, ...