Pickled Salmon
Pickling is a traditional way Alaskans preserve their seasonal harvest and enjoy summer’s abundance in colder months. In False Pass—the village near our family’s homestead—villagers salted silver salm...
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Two Recipes by the Salmon Sisters
We’re pleased to present two recipes excerpted from The Salmon Sisters’ new cookbook here. You’ll want to add this stunning book to your library. Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton grew up on a homestead on the eastern edge of the Aleutians, working on the family fishing boat, foraging wild plants, and gardening, experiences they share generously here with readers. Dishes in The Salmon Sisters include recipes to be enjoyed by home cooks everywhere: Spicy Seafood Cioppino, Wild Salmon Poke, Creamy Crab and Artichoke Dip, Crispy Beer-Battered Halibut, and more. The book also includes stories and photographs of the sisters’ unique upbringing and lifestyle in wild Alaska.
—The Editors
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