Good Morning Alaska (GMAK) is ABC Alaska’s newest production. Eventually GMAK will be a stand-alone show. For now, it’s aired during Good Morning America. (Just before the hour and half-hour, GMAK runs 5 minute segments of local content.)
Today’s show is the first in a series of cooking segments I’ll be ...
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 ...
Cilantro, once exotic, is now firmly part of the mainstream American diet. How do I know?
Costco in Anchorage, Alaska, at the far reach of America’s supply chain, is selling fresh cilantro, washed and trimmed, in large, 12-ounce bags for $2.99. Cilantro is also sold at every Anchorage grocery store.
Twelve ounces ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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