Alaska Cooks

Early in January, the other Jared over at the Carnivore Project started the Adopt-a-Meat program, and this was supposed to be a part of that. Life got in the way and this post is past it’s due date. Sorry, other Jared. I owe you one.
It’s the time of year when those [...]

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We climb out of the truck, sore and stiff from the 4 hour drive from Anchorage. It’s after midnight and there are no clouds to obscure the sky. Sometimes the Milky Way is a suggestion, a smudge of lighter sky. Out here it’s a gash of light across the night. There is no moon and [...]

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Even after sending lots of salmon and halibut south for the family to fight over, my freezer is still overflowing with tasty reminders of the summer sun and days on the water. It is never as good this time of year as it was when we caught, but the memories of the time catching it [...]

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The peak of fall is gone, the freezer is full of salmon. The tundra on the mountains has gone gold and red, and there’s the smell of gentle decay in the woods. It’s the very end of fall for us, and snow is in the air already. In a land with such sharp and [...]

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It’s berry season here and I’ve not picked one that hasn’t gone either directly into my mouth or directly into the next meal: so much for preparing for the long winter. We spent Labor Day near Copper Center, Alaska, which is fairly far north of Anchorage, and it is fully fall there already. [...]

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