Freshly picked spruce tips season perfectly cooked halibut.

Spruce tips are easy to find here in Alaska when temperatures are just starting to get warmer and the forest is waking up. Their bright fresh flavor is citrusy with a touch of pine that complements fish beautifully in this Spruce Butter Halibut. Ingredients for Spruce Butter Halibut Handful of fresh spruce tips (approximately one…

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Freshly picked spruce tips sit in a bucket.

And lo, the winter is past! Summer in Alaska is just stunning. The weather is perfect. The days are long. Well, non stop daylight actually. And after a two week long springtime that consists of snow melting into boatloads of mud everything is finally GREEN! I am literally drawn outside into the forest by some…

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Mooseakas Serbian restaurant in Denali offers exceptional food right outside the park

One of the great things about living in the United States is that decades of immigrants from around the world have brought a wide array of international cuisine. Alaska is no exception. From an abundance of Thai cuisine to exquisite Philippine restaurants, Alaska boasts an incredibly diverse culinary scene. In fact, nestled in a cluster…

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As we have completed our quarantine in the quiet cabin of Salcha, Alaska we decided to head first to Fairbanks– a rugged city that serves as the gateway to the great interior of Alaska. Along the way we stopped in North Pole, Alaska. This touristy and quirky town is (obviously) not really the North Pole,…

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