What S Cooking Alaska

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.

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.

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

Imagine having to procure fresh arugula or raspberries during an Alaskan cold snap. Climate and geography pose a serious challenge to the chef. This is the first cookbook to gather all Alaska's best chefs, and their secrets, together. Using ingredients ranging from diver scallops of Kodiak Island to the salmon of the Copper River, here are 120 recipes that will conjure the Alaskan experience at home.

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.

Tried and true recipes from Alaska's best seafood chefs. Alaska's pristine, icy cold waters are home to an abundance of wild salmon. Cooking Alaska's Wild Salmon is packed with delicious ways to prepare these nutrient-rich, flavorful fish, from old favorites such as Classic Salmon Loaf and Kedgeree to innovative new ideas like Smoked Salmon Cupcakes and Butternut Squash Soup with Salmon Croutons.