Don’t miss the holiday pop-up being hosted at @artspace_utah on the 10th!! Come by to try delicious food from SPICE entrepreneurs or shop for some amazing holiday gifts from the artisan vendors. We hope to see you there!!

The Discover Food Festival, presented by the IRC in Salt Lake City and Charcuterie Artisans, will offer community members the opportunity to engage with and support local refugee and new American culinary businesses, featuring a variety of global cuisines. The festival aims to bring together over 1,000 community members to celebrate global food traditions and taste the rich culinary diversity available in Utah. Enjoy food from around the globe, live entertainment, and entrepreneur food demonstrations! Entrepreneurs at the event participate in the IRC's Spice Kitchen Incubator program, an initiative focused on serving culinary entrepreneurs working to start, sustain or scale their small business in Utah!

Located in the Artspace Greenery in Salt Lake City’s Granary District, Spice on 9th is a 1,200 square foot community-led space run by culinary entrepreneurs participating in Spice Kitchen Incubator programming as well as other small business owners receiving services from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City to hone their food business skills and offer their products in a shared market. Spice on 9th opens August 25, 2023.

When: Thursday, May 11, 2023 from 6-7:30pm

Where: Spice on 9th, 422 W 900 S, Salt Lake City

This event is open to the public and free of charge.

The annual New American Dream Lab is a friendly business pitch competition in support of New Americans’ entrepreneurial businesses. Participants share presentations about the small business they hope to grow. Presentations will be ranked by a panel of judges. Participants receive cash awards and other support based on their rankings during the event. Audience members will also have the opportunity to rank presentations.

A Spice Tasting Event with Prime Corn

This year Prime Corn will be extending the menu to ethically raised meat options and would like to know your thoughts to the new foods. Come and try a variety of new dishes, including Chicharron en Salsa, Panuchos, Picadillo, Fruit pudding, Aguas Frescas, and more.

Join us to get a first look at Prime Corn's new foods and provide valuable feedback on presentation, taste, smell, cost, etc. Feedback will be collected via electronic forms so please bring a cell phone or tablet to the tasting event with you.

Discover Food Festival

Date: September 17, 2022
Time: 11 AM to 7 PM
Location: “Little City” 349 West 700 South, Salt Lake City, UT (Map)

You are invited to join the festivities at the Discover Food Festival, presented by Creminelli Fine Meats and the International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City! Gather together to celebrate global food traditions and taste the rich culinary diversity available in the Beehive State.

The event will support entrepreneurs participating in the IRC's Spice Kitchen Incubator program that works to assist refugee and new American culinary businesses to start, scale and sustain their efforts in Utah.

Join our Giving Tuesday Fundraising Campaign

Giving Tuesday is a day for people to reflect on their year and support their communities by donating to various causes and nonprofits. One week from today is Giving Tuesday and we are kick-starting our campaign!

Spice Kitchen Incubator's goal is to empower current and future entrepreneurs through food business ownership and advocacy. Your support further assists refugee, immigrant, and low-income individuals to develop successful and financially viable food businesses, preserve their culinary traditions, and share their talents with the Salt Lake community.

Our hope is to raise $3,000 during this week - just think, if 60 people gave just $25 we'd be halfway to this goal!

Valentine's Day Dessert Box

This Valentine's Day treat yourself or someone you love with this tantalizing box of confections!

Featuring:
• Serendipity Desserts – Vanilla Pudding Cinnamon Rolls
• Ashikat Kitchen – Magic Cake
• Delicius – Polvorosas (Cookies)
• Honey Teahive – Fruit Tarts
• Prin-Ya Custards – Red Velvet Vegan Custard

We are excited to partner with Salt Lake County for this year’s Welcoming Week celebrations!

On Friday, September 18th, Spice Kitchen Incubator will be offering a virtual cooking class.

Ashikat Kitchen is a catering business that cooks traditional Middle Eastern cuisine.

This cooking class will walk attendees through one of Saadiyah's favorite dishes, tepsi bathejan, a layered Iraqi casserole with eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes, onion, and exciting spices.

Culinary refugee and immigrant empowerment organizations across the US and Canada are coming together to honor World Refugee Day 2020 with an online cooking event featuring refugee cooks and their stories! Join us for live and recorded refugee led cooking demonstrations, and a panel discussion moderated by celebrity chef Marc Murphy, on behalf of The Culinary Diplomacy Project.

Recipes from the event are available here.

Join Spice Kitchen Incubator in the 2019 Food Entrepreneur Round Table conference. This is an opportunity to meet with and learn from food industry experts on topics relating to business start-up and scale-up.

Lunch and workshop materials are provided.

Location:
Utah Cultural Celebration Center
1355 West 3100 South, West Valley City, UT 84119

Date/Time Information:
February 23, 2019
9:30am - 4:30pm

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City cordially invites you to join us at our 4th annual Breaking Bread, a fundraising dinner welcoming refugees and New Americans to the Beehive State. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, enjoy an evening focused on the family table, where new beginnings are celebrated, where friendships arise from shared experiences, and where food bridges all barriers. Break bread as a community and welcome our new American friends to this place we all call home.

Funds raised from Breaking Bread will support the work of the International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City.

Come join us for the Discover Food Festival, on Friday June 7th from 5-8pm! This special event is a fundraiser for our friends at the International Rescue Committee’s Spice Kitchen Incubator and Hosted by Creminelli + Traeger Grills + Harmons Grocery.

The Spice Kitchen Incubator is on a mission to help refugees and new Americans start food businesses here in Salt Lake City. Join us in supporting them as they build a new communal kitchen. 100% of donations and ticket sales will help fund their new facility.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City cordially invites you to join us at our 3rd annual Breaking Bread, an evening focused on the family table—where food bridges all barriers, friendships arise from shared experiences, and where refugee families join us at the table. In the tradition of Thanksgiving, guests will share a meal with an international flair provided by Spice Kitchen Incubator entrepreneur chefs, take family portraits, and enjoy interactive activities focused on the family table. Break bread as a community and welcome our new American friends to this place we all call home.

Funds raised from Breaking Bread will support the work of the International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City.

(Thanks to wonderful community support this event is sold-out.)

Join Spice Kitchen Incubator in partnership with the Salt Lake Film Society for a free screening of Soufra. Post-film panel discussion with Spice Kitchen Incubator organized by the International Rescue Committee - SLC.

Soufra follows the unlikely and wildly inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a generational refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon. The film follows Mariam as she sets out against all odds to change her fate by launching a successful catering company, “Soufra,” and then expand it into a food truck business with a diverse team of fellow refugee woman who now share this camp as their home.

When:
Thursday, October 11, 2018
7:00 PM
FREE

Where:
The City Library
210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City

Chef Abudu of Kafe Mamai & Chefs Bina & Sita of Sikkim Momo

September 14-23 is Welcoming Week in Salt Lake, a time to celebrate the values that unite us all as neighbors, parents, and colleagues, and make Salt lake County more welcoming to newcomers and everyone who calls our community home.

Welcoming Salt Lake raises awareness of the economic and cultural contributions immigrants bring to the Salt Lake community.

Please note there are two chefs for Spice To Go this week.

World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 4, 2000 as an annual commemoration to celebrate the strength and resilience of the refugee communities throughout the world, recognize the struggles faced by displaced populations, and raise awareness about refugee issues.

World Refugee Day will be celebrated at:
Fairmont Park in Sugarhouse
1040 East Sugarmont Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City is excited to invite our supporters to our Open House on Wednesday, June 13th, from 5pm to 7pm. Tour our updated spaces with an IRC volunteer and meet IRC staff who serve refugees and new Americans on a daily basis in Salt Lake City!

Additional details are available by clicking through.

Join us at Journey to the Wasatch, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City's annual fundraising party celebrating the journey hundreds of brave refugees undergo every year to make their home in Utah. Alongside fellow humanitarians, enjoy a spirited symbolic live auction, activities to #StandWithRefugees, and a variety of small bites catered by entrepreneurs from Spice Kitchen Incubator.

All proceeds raised stay local to help the IRC continue to serve refugees and their families in our community.

Spice Kitchen Incubator presents a Food Entrepreneur Round Table, Feb 17, 2018 at the Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City, Utah. Join Spice Kitchen community experts as they share their knowledge on best practices for small food businesses.

The Round Table will focus on operating and scaling up food businesses. Lunch will include a panel discussion on lessons learned through owning a food business. The session will end with an opportunity to ask questions and interact with food industry experts.