Julia O'Malley

Make a sourdough loaf like an Alaskan with Beau Schooler’s recipe

Make sourdough like a real Alaskan with Beau Schooler’s sourdough bread.

Get your M.C. Escher on with a geometric rhubarb tart

This is a basic tart recipe that can be used to make any patterned tart.

These beet-pickled eggs got the beat

Here’s a favorite recipe that celebrates both Alaska’s sweet beets and the wide variety of eggs you can find in town, if you know where to look

The moment it occurred to me I had to quit my job at the Anchorage Daily News, I was sitting in my kitchen, chewing on a chicken breast dish I’d boiled to death in the crock pot. My wife was sitting across from me. She was eight months pregnant. We were staring at our phones, not talking. My son was watching cartoons on an iPad.