Alaska Cooks

original photo by Steve Nigl
The City Diner opened up in February to long lines and high expectations. You can’t have missed the place, with it’s smart neon, glass block, and chrome exterior. It stands out like shiny beacon in an otherwise typical Anchorage drab intersection, promising serious comfort food, vegetarians and dieters be [...]

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The talented, well-traveled, and widely read Christine from My Plate or Yours tagged me for the 5 things meme that’s been making the rounds lately, and it’s taken me more than a few days to come up with anything even remotely interesting to write about myself. Interesting is relative, so my mother may [...]

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For one to say that the partner does not like mayonnaise is a bit of an understatement. Similar to my feelings about republicans, the partner believes that mayo is an abomination, a filthy pestilence, and very possibly the source of true evil in the world. I do not exaggerate. Upon hearing this [...]

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So you’d think that with a food production system that regularly fails and kills people might actually need some more oversight? Not so much.
The FDA is conducting half of the food safety inspections it did three years ago
Safety tests for U.S.-produced food are down nearly 75 percent in same period
The FDA has [...]

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Are we even allowed to talk about eating surf an turf these days? Too 70’s? Something a bit retro about it, and maybe not in the groovy way that Target uses to make buying detergent more exciting. It isn’t hard to put together (I won’t even say ‘make’), the ingredients aren’t hard to [...]

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