A recent recipe for Salmon Rumaki calls for bacon to be marinated in “Smoked Salmon Vodka.” Reader Manju asks, “What is salmon-infused vodka? Did I miss an article somewhere?”
Smoked Salmon Vodka is a product developed by Alaska Distillery, a micro-distillery “located at the foothills of the Alaska Range” (a marketer’s ...
Kitchens of Alaska
Owners: Tom and Sally McLaughlin, Homestead Bed & Breakfast, Gustavus
Kitchen Design: Sally McLaughlin
Lighting Design: Tom McLaughlin
Builder: Seth Koch, Peak Construction, a general contractor who was based in Gustavus, moved to Steamboat Springs CO, and now does jobs in both Alaska and Colorado
Project: The new kitchen/dining ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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