Two small-town Utah chefs — and unlikely wilderness activists — get third nomination for prestigious James Beard Award

For the third year, Jen Castle and Blake Spalding, co-owners of Hell’s Backbone Grill in Boulder, have been named semifinalists in the James Beard Foundation Awards, the nation’s most prestigious recognition program for professionals in the food and beverage industry.Castle and Spalding are among 20 semifinalists in the Best Chef: Southwest category, which includes chefs from Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.Their farm-to-table restaurant has been operating for