The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah Arts Festival News Feature

Pineapple drinks and new food vendors

When the Utah Arts Festival held its abbreviated event in 2021 — only three days last August — few people expected that one of the event’s biggest hits would be smoothies sipped from hollowed-out pineapples.

“I wasn’t sure how they would do, especially since they were putting their drinks in a real pineapple,” said Bob Raysor, who has coordinated the festival’s culinary arts for the last 20 years. “I didn’t think they could keep up with the volume. But I was amazed at how many pineapple drinks they sold.”

The smoothie stand, The Rolling Pineapple, is back for this year’s festival. It’s one of 18 food vendors, a mix of veteran purveyors and new entries.

(Jeff Swingman | Utah Arts Festival) The Rolling Pineapple smoothie vendor, seen here at the 2021 Utah Arts Festival last August, is scheduled to return for the 2022 festival, set for June 23-26, 2022, in Library Square and Washington Square in downtown Salt Lake City.