For ADN: Anchorage’s bagels are better than ever. You just have to know where to find them.
A half-dozen small bagel operations have sprung up in what was once a “bagel desert.”
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Talking salmon on KCRW’s GOOD FOOD
I got an opportunity to talk about king salmon with KCRW’s Evan Kleiman on the show GOOD FOOD this week. Listen here!
Talking king salmon on Oregon Public Broadcasting
Listen here for an interview I did on OPB about the implications of the decline of king salmon.
For NYT (A-1!): Starving Orcas and the Fate of Alaska’s Disappearing King Salmon
With the fish numbers at historic lows, scientists, chefs and others are asking whether we should be eating them anymore, and what it means for the future of all wild salmon.
Seven Super-(Sorta)-Secret Sandwiches To Eat This Summer in Anchorage
The “sandwich parliament” has passed a few resolutions.
For Grist: Billions of snow crabs are missing. A remote Alaskan village depends on the harvest to survive.
When climate change upends the relationship between people and animals, making it harder to stay in small rural places, who keeps track of all that happened there?
For NYT: What a freezer means in Rural Alaska
For New York Times Food a story about the vital role chest freezers play in the economics and culture of Alaska Native villages, and how they are being threatened as increasingly violent storms take out the electricity.
For Eater: Alaska’s last Dairy Man bets everything on local milk
There’s nothing easy about running a dairy in remote Alaska. That might be why the state only has one left.
For Eater: A guide to eating in Juneau
Here’s a guide to where to eat in Juneau.
The Eater Guide to Alaska
I had a great time helping to edit and contributing to the 2022 Eater Guide to Alaska. Take a look.