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 ...
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 ...
Beans: A History by Ken Albala (Berg 2007) may be the most interesting single-subject volume of food history I’ve seen; it reads as easily as a novel. Beans are Albala’s plucky hero, ever striving to overcome the cultural elite’s prejudice against what it deemed low-class trash food.
From ...
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