A Measure of Grace

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by Blake Spalding and Jen Castle, Photographs by Eric Swanson

With a Measure of Grace recounts with sensitivity and wit the tale of a women-owned, Buddhist-based restaurant becoming a community anchor in a small Mormon town. Within the book’s 160 beautiful, color-photographed pages, former backcountry caterers and professional river chefs Blake Spalding and Jen Castle share their struggles and successes as co-owners of Hell’s Backbone Grill.

Spalding and Castle began with a goal to meld their ideas of regional, seasonally appropriate, slow cuisine, right livelihood, environmental ethics, and social responsibility into a restaurant they would operate with compassion, generosity, loving kindness, and grace. They were unaware at the time that given the unusual circumstances of their venture, this plan would be the restaurant’s only chance of survival.
Hardcover, 160 pp., 68 recipes.

"One of the zestiest, most innovative and most toleran restaurants in the West…. Hell's Backbone Grill is an anomaly, an unexpected but happy melding of cultures, cuisines, and religions."
- O, The Oprah Magazine

"Well OK, this book has nothing to do with horses. Buy it. It's wonderful!"
- Dave