The nonprofit that has sponsored the popular Taste of the Wasatch annual food and wine celebration for many years intends to shut its doors in the wake of news reports about it forgoing a $50,000 promised donation to Utahns Against Hunger from last year’s event.
“We have to shut down now because we can’t recover from that,” Karen Zabriskie, 3 Squares Inc. executive director, told The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday. “There’s no way we’re going to be able to get funding going forward.
“Board members have resigned," she said, noting that board Chairman Zane Holmquist, a vice president and corporate chef at Stein Eriksen Lodge, stepped down Friday.