In Alaska many of us spend all spring and summer harvesting foods so we can enjoy good food and nutrition all winter. We enjoy salmon, halibut, deer, moose, shrimp, and crab. The usual. Food is a ...

Across Southeast Alaska, a regional ingredient is moving out of the kitchens of seasonal foragers and onto restaurants' menus, in the form of everything from cocktails and pasta to ice cream and ...

I don’t have much experience with other kinds of conifers, but I’m going to go ahead and assume that, like most of what’s available to us here in Southeast Alaska, the spruce tips from our local Sitka ...

Each spring in Southeast Alaska, the Sitka spruce tip harvest happens suddenly and only lasts about a week. With the flavor's growing popularity and short harvest season, Alaska businesses have come ...

Chef Beau Schooler got his first batch of this season's Sitka spruce tips earlier this week for his Juneau restaurants. Schooler said the tips are easy to work with and versatile. That lends them to a ...

One of the more unusual spirits for sale anywhere is made by an innovative distillery in Tamworth, N.H. Tamworth Distilling was founded by Steven Grasse, a marketer who, in 1999, came up with the ...