Cooking In Alaska

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

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

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.

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.

Throughout Alaska, an abundant variety of delicious and nutritious natural foods are enjoyed. For many years the Indians, Eskimos, and early settlers have eaten well. Through their influence, there is a simplicity in food preparation that influences all of Alaska's cuisine. The authors have provided readers with a cookbook that will touch every season in Alaska and introduce them to the flavor of Alaska through its geography, history, and native culture. This definitive cookbook of Alaskan foods has over 400 recipes that are beautifully offered along with native folklore, photography, and exquisite illustrations of the Alaskan people and their land.

Introducing Alaska’s answer to the Pioneer Woman: Two sisters share their remarkable life story as fisherwomen of the Aleutian Islands—plus 50 sustainable seafood recipes that honor the beauty of wild foods. Share in the remarkable and wild lives of Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton, the Salmon Sisters, who grew up on a homestead in the Aleutians where the family ran a commercial fishing boat in the Alaskan sea. Their book reveals through stories, recipes, and photography this outward-bound lifestyle of natural bounty, the honest work on a boat's deck, and the wholesome food that comes from local waters and land. Here are creative and simple ways to enjoy wild salmon, halibut, and spot prawns, as well as simple crafts and ideas for exploring the natural world. The sisters are committed to sustaining and celebrating the seafaring community in Alaska, and their business of selling products related to and from the ocean donates a can of wild-caught fish to local food banks for each item purchased. “To flip through the pages of Emma Teal Laukities’s and Claire Neaton’s new cookbook . . . is to be whisked away on an adventure in the country’s northernmost state.” —Martha Stewart