Find all your favorite Alaska food people in the “Eaterland” cookbook
I wrote and curated the Alaska section of this cookbook, which includes great recipes and thoughts on how Alaskans eat from some of my favorite food people.
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For NYT: Villages Destroyed and a Hunger for Home
I wrote about an unprecedented, statewide effort in Alaska to help people displaced by a typhoon continue to eat Indigenous foods and how maintaining a traditional diet preserves an ancient language and culture.
On Milk Street Radio: Me talking moose and cake mix
I got to talk about Alaska’s food culture on Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street podcast!
For NYT: For Alaskan Evacuees, Home Is Gone, With No Return in Sight
I had the opportunity to write about evacuees from the typhoon in western Alaska as they arrived in Anchorage.
For ADN: Raising the idea of salmon farms in Alaska, Gov. Dunleavy swims against a tide of skeptics
I wrote for Anchorage Daily News about our governor’s unlikely curiosity about farming salmon and the pushback from Alaskans across the board.
For ADN: As climate change upends subsistence, Alaska tribes and villages turn to gardens
I wrote for the Anchorage Daily News about how federal funds helped fuel tribal agriculture’s growth, and how now they’re now in question.
For NYT: At the Alaska Summit, an Unlikely Local Dish Gets a Cameo
In the wake of the Trump/Putin summit on Ukraine, someone found a menu for their planned luncheon on a hotel printer. One dish had Alaskans scratching their heads: halibut Olympia.
For NYT: Coverage of the Putin/Trump summit
I got the chance to work for the New York Times over the week leading up to the Putin/Trump summit on Ukraine. Here are the stories we produced.
For Conde Nast Traveler: Baked Alaska
I got to write about the history of baked Alaska for a Conde Nast Traveler.