Posts tagged “fishing”

Chuck Hughes in Anchorage, Alaska: Food from Fourth Avenue

Chuck Hughes, Kait Reiley, and the PopCycle, photo courtesy of The Cooking Channel

On Tuesday, November 20, Anchorage’s Fourth Avenue stars in Chuck’s Eat the Street on The Cooking Channel. Here’s a behind the scenes look at why the show came to Alaska and what Chuck Hughes, the show’s host, thinks about Anchorage.

Chuck Hughes

Canadian Chef Chuck Hughes has two highly regarded restaurants in ...

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How to Dipnet for Salmon on the Kenai River

Dipnetting on Alaska's Kenai River

In Alaska, fishing for salmon is both sport and necessity. When word gets out that salmon are running, people hightail it to the nearest fish hotspot as fast as their Subarus and pickup trucks can carry them. Traffic backs up for miles and the small towns near the Kenai River ...

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Review of The Fishes & Dishes Cookbook

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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