Benjamin Bombard

Producer, RadioWest

A Salt Lake native, Benjamin Bombard served numerous internships in the KUER newsroom before becoming a producer of RadioWest. He aspired to the position for years, and in his sometimes wayward pursuit of it he has worked as a print and radio journalist in Utah, Wyoming and California, a horse wrangler in East Canyon, a golf course “bag rat” in Massachusetts, a dishwasher, a bookseller, a librarian, a children’s museum guide, a barista, a linecook and a male nanny or “manny.” He has also dished up gelato to Mafiosos in Providence, R.I., and worked as a volunteer for a health NGO in Mali, West Africa, where he declined an offer to act as a blood-diamond mule. He spends most of his free time cooking and baking in the kitchen and running up and down mountains along the Wasatch Front with his two dogs.

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4:56pm

Fri June 22, 2012
June 25, 2012 | Culture

Truck Food

Credit Lou Weinert

Monday, guest host Benjamin Bombard is joined by food writer and cultural historian John T. Edge for a look at the burgeoning food truck scene in the U.S. It's a cuisine Edge calls "the culinary equivalent of the Great American Novel." Chefs are creating adventurous foods on city streets where diners can get a great meal without a dress code or exorbitant prices. John T. Edge is coming to Utah as a guest of Weller Book Works and he'll take us on a tour of America's best restaurants on wheels.

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