Blog of the Week: North to Alaska, A Season at Stonewall Place
Writers: Kari and Pierre are from St. Paul, Minnesota where until recently Pierre worked as a mechanical engineer and Kari spent summers working on organic farms and winters deicing planes at the Minneapolis airport. Last September, Kari ...
Happy Nowruz! Happy Persian New Year!
Nowruz, which translates as “New Day” or “New Light”, is the name given New Year’s Day in the Persian (Iranian) calendar. Nowruz has been celebrated for over 3000 years across the region that once made up the Persian Empire.
Before the Greeks, Romans, and Ottoman Turks ...
Chef Joël Chenet recently forayed from his Kodiak kitchen to trawl the halls of Alaska’s Capitol Building in Juneau. Chenet is on a mission to convince legislative leaders that Alaskans need the Environmental Protection Agency to take an active role in responding to the proposed Pebble mine.
“Yes, local decision making ...
Blog of the Week:
Turmeric & Saffron
Writer:
Azita
Where:
New York via Iran
What:
Six months after her mother died, Azita started blogging as a tribute to her mother’s culinary capabilities and knowledge of Persian cooking. Through writing the blog, Azita has become a passionate and enthusiastic cook. She no longer thinks just about ...
Kitchens of Alaska
Owners: Ray Brudie and Kathleen “Teeny” Metcalfe, South Anchorage
Designer/Builder: Ray Brudie, licensed general contractor (works mostly on residential remodels; specializes in bathrooms and kitchens).
Project: 230 square foot kitchen addition. The original Brudie-Metcalfe 1200 square foot ranch house had a tiny kitchen the size of a short hallway. The ...
Commercial fishing drew me and my friends to pre-pipeline Alaska in the early 1970s. We grew up on Puget Sound, and left without looking back. In those years, we worked in canneries, hoping for lots of overtime, or on boats for a percentage of the catch, hoping our captains would ...
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