Alaska Cooks

The salmon are making their way back to us, but are thus far playing uncharacteristically hard to get. Low spring-time temperatures and lots of cloudy days have left the streams cooler than normal. Even though the highs this week have been well into the seventies, the inshore waters are still cold enough to keep [...]

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First, is it fettuccine or fettucini? I can find it both ways. It’s allegedly spring in Alaska, though we awoke to a dusting of snow on Monday morning, 4 inches in some parts of town. Even by Alaska standards this was late in the season and considered by most to be grossly unfair. The blustery [...]

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We are equal-opportunity meat eaters and seafood falls into the “yes, please” category. We are fortunate to both live in Alaska where seafood is usually available for the plundering, and also to be serious about harvesting it with fly rods. Sadly though, it is that time of year when the preserved stocks left from last [...]

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