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Chef/Owner @hellsbackbonegrill&Farm JBFA ‘17 ‘18 ’19 ‘20 ‘22 ‘23 semifinalist outstanding restaurant #metoo #antiracism #climate
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I love my sister. ❤️

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As 2025 comes to a close, I’m feeling a lot of gratitude. For the people who showed up, the ones who stayed,
and the ones who taught
me something along the way and moved on.
I’m grateful for the adventures of 2025.
As we step into 2026,
I’m wishing everyone a gentle,
thriving year — and I’m looking
forward to the new opportunities ahead.

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Join Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke Williams, Pam Houston, Craig Childs, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Amy Irvine, and Blake Spalding for a virtual evening of stories and tributes to the community we’ve shared at Torrey House Press.

This year, as Torrey House Press completes our 15th anniversary year as a company and celebrating our place as the Intermountain West’s leading nonprofit independent publishing house, we’re inviting these Utah and Colorado writers and desert defenders to come together to celebrate and advocate for story and community in redrock country and beyond.

Link in bio to RSVP! See you soon! ♥️💫✨

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We’re closed for the season, but we’re busy behind the scenes! Making and baking and mixing and fixing is what December’s got going on. If you’re at the Lodge, you can have some tamales for dinner, if you’re too far for a visit, we’ve got piñon brittle ready to ship by mail! We even have nibbles for the doggies. The Elves of Hell’s Backbone Grill send warm wishes your way. P.S. We’re hiring for 2026!

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We’re busy in the kitchen this week preparing to welcome friends old and new for our annual Harvest Feast of Gratitude!

Whether dicing these glorious gargantuan beets with @jenner11 or mixing up our famous piñon buttermints with @blake_spalding, every set of hands is busy chopping, stirring, and pouring love into every bite of food we make.

We look forward to welcoming you this week to celebrate community, gratitude, and healthy, delicious food with us! If you can’t be with us in person this time of year, check out our online shop to bring a little bit of @hellsbackbonegrill into your home for the holidays ❤️

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Pull up a seat — we’ve got so many delicious things cooking for this final stretch of the season!

Farm squash gnocchi, warm farm cabbage, farmy Caesar, and farm pumpkin bread budding… we promise you’ll leave with a belly full of homegrown goodness.

#farmtotable

📸: @marykmcintyre

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It’s that magical time of year when the leaves are spinning golden yellow through the breeze, the last flowers are still buzzing with bees, and a slight chill in the air has you wanting to cozy up to the fireplace at dusk and dawn!

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Aaron looked over the menu and joked, “I’ll order a hot toddy and a Path of Light.” I had no idea what he meant until I turned the menu over. 🧡

How fitting since our dinner was a treat gifted by a reader. @hellsbackbonegrill serves gorgeous farm-to-table food, alongside their delicious taste in books, in a remote pocket of canyon country. HBBG is more than fine desert dining, it’s a community center built upon a committed passion to care for the incredible landscape of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

As we slowly stuffed ourselves, it was hard not to think about hunger. I began writing Path of Light in 2019, alone, cold, and undernourished in Bears Ears. I learned to be satiated by stories, landscapes, and stillness when I did not have enough to eat.

Amid the evil SNAP cuts, I wonder why I did not consider seeking help? I think of so many Americans who do not have that option right now, and of those whose access to essential food is severed.

Tandem efforts to ban books, rewrite history, withhold healthcare subsidies, and rescind critical environmental laws also intend to starve us all. So yes, books should be included on a menu, to nourish our ability to learn, grow, question, resist, help each other, and advocate for the rights of nature, which includes humans.

Ultimately, committing to writing books about protecting public lands helped me learn to take better care of myself. With each bite and word that we choose, we strengthen ourselves. With the food and the stories we share, we can do so much more. 🤎

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Can you believe we’ve been making these Blue Ribbon Black-Powder Biscuits every single dinner service for 25 years?! We serve them warm and ready to melt our deliciously earthy whipped sage butter on top 🤤 @Jen won a blue ribbon at the Coconino County Fair for them in the late 90’s, a few years before we

There are some tried and true favorites like these that we can’t ever take off the menu! If you have a hankering for them at home or perhaps want to add them to your Thanksgiving table, you can buy the biscuit mix on our website or find the recipe in our first cookbook!

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Closing out the last week of a gorgeous October.

@hellsbackbonegrill @littlebonefoodtruck

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Autumn’s golden splendor adorns everything … including the dishes coming from our kitchen!

Our menu right now features the late harvest from our farm, which includes a bounty of glorious winter squash and cold hardy greens.

Tyler Warren is one of our new and talented chefs this season, and he has contributed several delightful fall dishes.

We’re in full swoon over his farmy kale caesar with red cabbage, daikon, green apple, and homemade focaccia croutons—and we’re equally wild about his gorgeous Blue Hubbard Squash Gnocchi in brown butter with dried apricots, swiss chard, and sautéed locally grown golden oyster mushrooms, topped with aged Parmigiano-Reggiano.

And among the many dreamy desserts we're currently offering up is our luscious Pumpkin Bread Pudding with white chocolate & almonds served warm with naughty whiskey sauce and just-whipped cream.

Is your mouth watering? Well, guess what: We still have limited availability for our end of November Gratitude Feast Abundance (aka Thanksgiving)!

You can check reservations on our website (link in bio) for seating times and more information.

We are so grateful for all this magnificent abundance, and it brings us great joy to share it with all of you. Come see us in November before we close for the winter months!

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My trip to the desert this weekend was sublime! I got to enjoy the open road on my own, meet some new friends, play my guys out, and take in the powerful serenity of our beat utah redrocks! Thank you to @entradainstitute Marci , Annie, both Susans, Maura, Eileen, Lauren, and the amazing other artists at this annual water color event! Spectacular! #fiddlepreacher #thefiddlepreacher #torreyutah #entradainstitute #redrocks #grateful

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