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 ...

Spruce tips can also be used as seasoning for savory dishes. Their unique flavor profile goes well with roasted vegetables or grilled tofu. By adding them towards the end of cooking, you can retain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gifting, attáldat, is a Sámi term meaning “our community.” Attáldat is giving and sharing to sustain the community. Last fall, my family was able to gift spruce tips to the Wrangell Cooperative ...

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 ...

Bundles of spruce tips — that winter perennial — are now plentiful at garden centers and supermarkets. Many of us plunge the evergreen branches into planters, then stick in a few red dogwood twigs, ...