Taste of Place

Journeys Through Southeast Alaska’s Wild Foodshed

Baranof Fishing and the Alaska Fish House invite you on a journey. Put down your cell phones, pull your children away from their video games, and join us outdoors. We are on a mission to educate ourselves, our youth, and our community on all things edible in the forest, the ocean, and the beach.

Questions and concerns about our edible environment keep us up at night and occupied from dawn to dinnertime. Why don’t we eat dogfish in Alaska when it is choice in England for fish and chips? What is the best way to cook and clean sea cucumber and why are they a delicacy in Asia, but thought of as unappetizing by many Alaskans? Even with the best field guide in hand for foraging mushrooms, how certain do you have to be before you eat them? When looking at a marine chart, how do you decide where to drop a shrimp pot… and do people really use canned cat food for bait? Is kelp seriously the new kale? Are there rockfish still alive today that were living during the Civil War, and do all rockfish taste the same? Has anyone figured out how to cook arrowtooth flounder yet? Is catching a king salmon luck or artistry? And what is the best technique, anyway, for killing a fish once you’ve caught one? Do you really need to wait for a frost before harvesting lingonberries? What is the best way to catch, cook, and clean a Dungeness crab? What are the ins and outs to smoking salmon? Does anyone eat magister armhook squids?

Join us as we explore these and other questions. As we taste and learn about the hundreds of edible species in southeast Alaska, we hope you’ll visit BaranofFishing.com, follow us on social, and call or email us with questions on how to gather, catch, identify, process, cook, or preserve what’s available in Alaska—you’re welcome to join us on this journey.

Baranof Fishing Excursions melds unique, traditional Alaska dining with world-class fishing.

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