Alaska Cooks

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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We’d sworn off pasta for awhile trying to get back into our bikinis for the summer season, but the stuff is like crack. Once you go back, it’s hard to get clean again. And who wants to, really? I passed a car on the highway this week with a bumper sticker that read “I Heart [...]

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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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My dad’s parents were a large part of my life growing up in North Carolina. I remember them at holidays big and small, birthdays, tractor driving, Easter egg hunts, shooting, fishing trips. My mother’s parents did not live long enough for me to know them. My folks moved across the country to California [...]

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One of the things that I like best about having a blog based about food is the sense of needing to keep experimenting and trying new things in order to keep it interesting. I’ve been branching out bit lately from my standard grilled beast and salad. This past week was kind of a wash as [...]

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