Cooking Alaskan

A classic collection of over 1,400 Alaskan recipes to delight those who love the North's traditional fare.

From Alaska from Scratch blogger Maya Wilson comes a beautifully scenic cookbook celebrating Alaska and its ocean-to-table, homemade food culture. When Maya Wilson and her three kids transplanted to Alaska in 2011, she didn’t know what to expect. But what she ended up finding was home—and she turned her love for the gorgeous landscapes and fresh cuisine into the now hugely popular blog Alaska from Scratch. Maya’s first book is filled with 75 delicious, family-friendly recipes that are based on the seasonality of Alaska. There’s an abundance of wild berries, so summer recipes are full of them, and to get through the cold winters, she includes hearty soups and pot pies. Her recipes—sheet pan balsamic chicken, coffee chocolate chip banana bread, and Kenai cheeseburgers—are created for busy families like hers. And of course, she incorporates plenty of the seafood Alaska is famous for: halibut poached in Thai curry, a salmon superfood salad, and local recipes like reindeer sausage and moose shepherd’s pie.

A classic collection of Alaskan recipes by the editors and friends of Alaska magazine.

No one knows the fine art of New Alaskan Cuisine like "Chef Al" Levinsohn. As a chef in some the finest restaurants in the state since 1984, as owner of two of those restaurants, and as the host of the regional cooking show "What’s Cookin’? With Chef Al", he has become the face of the region’s cuisine. Now for the first time, he collects his favorite Alaskan-based dishes in What’s Cookin’, Alaska?. With a special attention to regional ingredients, particularly seafood (King crab, salmon, halibut, and scallops), as well as eye for the gourmet Chef Al has created the ultimate resource to cooking Alaskan style. Among the dishes are: Kodiak Scallop Wontons, Alaskan Snapper Ceviche, Marinated Grilled Buffalo Skewers with Shitake Mushrooms, and Wildfire Smoked Salmon Hash.

Taste Alaska Like Never Before! Professional Chef Suzette Lord Weldon shares her special mouth-watering recipes of Alaskan favorites including farm-fresh salads, sensational seafoods, wild Alaskan salmon, ocean-fresh halibut, one-pot meals, main course meals, and desserts. Wine selections included as well as symbols designating recipes that are appropriate for camping in the Alaskan wilderness.

Husband and wife team Ole and LaDonna Gundersen are back with another great Alaskan cookbook. These yummy halibut dishes will have you hooked! From breakfast to dessert, the Gundersens have compiled some of their most popular recipes into this handy, attractive guide.

Out-of-this-world ingredients (consider the King crab and the salmon from the Copper River) combined with creative chefs makes for adventurous and sophisticated eating. This much-lauded cookbook profiles a dozen Alaska chefs who are developing and perfecting the tastes and flavors of the Last Frontier. Whether they are located in downtown hotel restaurants or remote lodges or far-flung towns, these chefs are finding wonderful local ingredients and either inventing new dishes or re-interpreting classics. The traditional Alaskan Seafood Chowder is a hearty and malleable recipe that takes advantage of the fact that Alaskan kitchens usually have a good supply on hand of various kinds of fin- and shellfish. Naturally, the book offers up a good half-dozen other fish recipes as well. The Wild Mushroom Tart reflects the bounty of the many forests&—and fortunately excellent foraged mushrooms are showing up at farmers markets in the lower-48. Alaska is famous for its long summer days that produce bumper crops and outsized vegetables. Cream of Alaskan Summer Squash and Fresh Sweet Basil Soup is a terrific solution to too many zucchinis (an issue for many home farmers). Roast Cornish Hen with King Prawn is a perfect and unexpected marriage of fish and fowl&—a combination that perhaps could only have been invented in Alaska. With over 120 recipes, this second edition of The New Alaska Cookbook reveals that the culinary world up north has continued to evolve in many new and delicious directions