SALT LAKE CITY — Dee Benson’s long career in the food business has its roots in her youth, when she’d shop for her grandparents in the teeming markets in her native Thailand.
She learned how to gauge the freshness of produce and meat and observed how the cooks prepared food. “There you see how people cook things, and you learn,” she said.
Varied positions in the food business followed in Saudi Arabia and the United States, culminating with her role as owner/operator of Salt Lake City’s My Thai Asian Cuisine. The moment comes when it’s time to hang up the apron, however, and Benson retired last month…