tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44611512690506231602024-03-13T23:51:00.299-08:00 Sister CarriTales from Two Sisters Bakery and beyond!Carrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09573535290980530059noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4461151269050623160.post-74751795471451409122018-01-01T08:58:00.002-09:002018-01-01T08:58:58.126-09:002017 the year of the PIG!One of the best parts of 2017 for me was finally getting our whole pig program on line.<br />
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We are able to get Alaskan pork from Wyhe Family Farms in Sutton, Alaska thanks to Arctic Valley Harvest. It is a treat to work with such great people!<br />
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It took 5 of us 5 hours to break it down into cuts for dinner and trim for sausage. </div>
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Coppa Steaks are my favorite new cut!</div>
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We also seasoned and rolled the head. Cooked for 12 hours and sliced. </div>
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Came out super delicious. Perfect New Year's Special!</div>
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And Simeon rubbed it with lard and wrapped it to hang.</div>
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The bakery glowed like a beacon on our last day open this year. </div>
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We are so grateful to everyone who walks through that door!</div>
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Sharon and I met our friends Lotta and Titti from Sweden for a week of touring, talks and tables full of food and interesting people!</div>
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First stop <a href="https://www.thejanenyc.com/">The Jane Hotel</a> in NYC. Also hit The Spotted Pig (crazy place) and Blue Hill (so much beautiful food)</div>
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Joan Roca. Love him.</div>
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Our apartment was in the lower building on the right. great locale.</div>
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Gaudi LIVES!</div>
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Our new best friend Jessie Cool. She is so cool.</div>
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The light floods the kitchen this time of year as the arc of the sun dips below the edges of the porch roof spilling blinding gold on the sandwich board a few hours a day. It's our favorite season here, the summer crowds are gone, the weather is still nice and when the sun is out, you just can't beat these fall days.<br />
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We are taking advantage of the slower time and moving ahead with our new test kitchen up and running (transforming a former B&B room to house a cold storage closet, veggie and dish sinks and workstations with a view of the ocean;)<br />
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With football season upon us, the bakery slows waaaayyy down on Sundays. A good time to clean the greasetrap and defrost the freezers, because we do know how to have a GOOD TIME, lol! Who doesn't want to spend their weekends doing that? You can tell we are not football fans!<br />
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A couple of years back, my sous chef Morgan and I attended the <a href="http://www.madfeed.co/" target="_blank">MAD </a>food symposium in Copenhagen. Run by <a href="https://instagram.com/reneredzepinoma/?hl=en" target="_blank">Rene Redzepi</a> and his merry band from the restaurant <a href="http://noma.dk/" target="_blank">Noma</a>, it has become the seed of many great collaborations and ideas for some of the best chefs in the world and a way for a small town bakery owner like me to both see what is possible and reaffirm their mission. (I wrote a little piece about it on my friend Michael Ruhlman's <a href="http://ruhlman.com/2014/01/mad-with-beet-cured-rockfish-on-fig-rye/" target="_blank">blog</a>)<br />
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One of the speakers I was most excited to see was <a href="http://www.wildfermentation.com/" target="_blank">Sandor Katz</a>, (Esteemed author of Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation). To my delight at the closing dinner I found myself sitting next to him. It was so interesting hearing about his life in Tennessee and fun to tell him how many fans he has up here in Homer.<br />
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Luckily for us, he remembered our meeting when a chance to visit Alaska this summer came up, he got in touch.<br />
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It was with pure excitement that we were able to host him for two events, one was a workshop that included both hands on and lecture with many questions answered thoughtfully by Mr. Katz, the other was a fundraiser for the <a href="http://www.homerfarmersmarket.org/">Homer Farmers Market</a> (a big thanks to that organizing queen Robbie Mixon for bringing it all together) that included readings by local authors as well as a sweet presentation by Sandor.<br />
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The workshop was held at Twitter Creek Gardens, (made famous in this excellent <a href="http://www.eater.com/2014/10/15/6971503/homer-alaska">Eater.com</a> article by <a href="http://juliaomalley.media/">Julia O'Malley</a>).<br />
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So green tomato jam was on the list this week. A childhood favorite of mine that lives in the musty corners of my brain. I remember eating it and exclaiming, "this can't possibly be Green tomatoes! And I couldn't get enough. I resurrected the process as best I could with a two to one ratio of fruit to sugar by weight. Macerating them overnight in the sugar, I then cooked them with a little lemon peel and juice for about 3 hours until it was reduced and the tomatoes took on a candied quality. So different and delicious, my mind is reeling with the possibilities! </div>
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My bad for having not written in so long. It's not like there hasn't been anything to write about. Seriously, there has been way too much! Since I last sat down to write, we have been on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E266LA6/ref=atv_feed_catalog?tag=imdb-amazonvideo-20" target="_blank">TV</a> (thanks <a href="http://alieandgeorgia.com/" target="_blank">Alie and Georgia</a>!), had a baby (We love you Carla and Dan and baby Elli), Got married, not once (Congratulations to Jill and Luke!) but TWICE (Bri and Ryan, we are so happy for you!). We also had two production companies talk to us about reality shows, both were prefaced with, "we've always wanted to do a show in Alaska!" One was an extreme cakes show with Sharon creating elaborate fondant cakes and Niko delivering them by dog sled (only Sharon doesn't do fondant and Niko doesn't dog sled) and the other was going to be about plus size sisters making big fun in the 49th state, (right, except we are not exactly plus size and we are not exactly sisters, so yeah, but no).<br />
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Sharon and I both went to Paris, though sadly not together, and to top it off, Morgan and I met our heroes while going <a href="http://www.madfood.co/" target="_blank">MAD</a> in Copenhagen (check out the videos of some of the presentations we saw, so amazing! I still hope to write a post all about it). While all that was going on the bakery hummed it's busy, happy tune as we enjoyed one of the busiest retail summers we have ever had. It seems like we had our share of broken refrigerators and other curve balls, but all in all their were fewer tears, and for THAT we are ever grateful. And as we head into the dark of this winter season, we are also thankful for the smiles across the counter that warm us and we know the love from our customers will light our way through these coming days of darkness.<br />
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Our friends Rachael and Ben at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alaska-Stems/436046089796630?fref=ts" target="_blank">Alaska Stems</a> are bringing in the first blooms from their tulips, the cranes have arrived. So have the birders...the surest sign of spring is not just the snowy white swans frolicking on the shores of the almost thawed Beluga Lake, it is the out of town visitors sporting big cameras!</div>
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We also have new paintings up by Barbara Wyatt. She has a new gallery online at <a href="http://bwyattworks.wordpress.com/">bwyattworks.wordpress.com</a> her work is so beautiful and inspiring!</div>
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Another bright spot in this crazy season was a visit from the lovely <a href="http://alieandgeorgia.com/" target="_blank">Alie and Georgia</a> from <a href="http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/chefs/alie-ward-and-georgia-hardstark.html" target="_blank">The Cooking Channel</a> and their awesome film crew. With our regular bakery days in full swing it made for some intense moments with so many people in the kitchen, but they made it so fun! </div>
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<br />Carrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09573535290980530059noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4461151269050623160.post-65415380765701852162013-02-02T07:21:00.001-09:002013-02-02T08:00:37.341-09:00What comes around, goes around...Why we love our egg farmers, part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of our egg farmers sent me this sweet clip of her girls. we have been enjoying the fruits of their labor...and as you can see they have also been enjoying ours. Thanks, Deb!<br />
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The first month of 2013 was a bit sloppy and slippery, at least if you were trying to get around outside. We kept things warm and cozy inside, though! We enjoyed our busiest January ever even with all the bad weather and sketchy road conditions. Thanks to everyone who has helped us keep it all together and to the rest of you who keep coming back for more!</div>
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Just a reminder...(this means YOU, Marvin) the challah isn't usually ready until noon or one. We aren't making very much, so it's good to reserve early. (Tom K. perhaps a standing order to make sure you get yours?) </div>
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The soups have been flying off the stove on these chilly to the bone days. Latest favorite is a Coconut Chicken with Lime. Warms you from the inside out! </div>
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Sous Chef Morgan got the book 'The Art of Fermentation' for Christmas and her first batch of Kim Chee will be ready soon...Look for it on the dinner specials menu this month! </div>
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Call to make your reservations 235-2280</div>
Carrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09573535290980530059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4461151269050623160.post-61112842724600725962013-01-08T07:32:00.002-09:002013-01-08T07:32:50.558-09:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was a crazy holiday season here at the bakery! Lots of cookies, cakes and breads flying out the door amidst the snow and the rain and the WIND! Christmas eve eve alone brought 2 feet of snow, which unfortunately was washed away by New Years eve. We did our best to be here through all of that, but mailmen we are not and we ended up closing dinner a couple of nights due to bad roads and part of the crew being stuck in their driveways. Those folks that were able to get to work did a fine job loading the cases. What a warm wonderful sight to be greeted with on a dark and cold snowy day! </div>
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Welcoming adventure is what life is all about up here, and one of our crew is enabling just that. Evening server Stevie is assisting her boyfriend Lonnie Dupre as he makes his 3rd attempt at soloing Denali. He is hoping to fly to the mountain today, weather shamans permitting. You can help by supporting their <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oneworldendeavors/cold-love" target="_blank">kickstarter campaign</a> to help bring awareness of the effects of climate change on the arctic. Cold Love indeed...Good Luck, Lonnie!</div>
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The holidays are bearing down on us like a loud freight train, but, never fear, we are ready to climb aboard! We'll be packing lots of holiday cookies in our bags and eating hearty and delicious soup and sandwiches along the way...I think we'll also bring along a couple of these:</div>
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The first Yule Log rolled of the line last week where it was sliced and scarfed during the evening dinner service. Want one of your very own? Give us a call! (907)235-2280.</div>
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We are open throughout the holiday season, closing only Christmas Day. <a href="http://twosistersmenus.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dinners</a> will be Thursday through Saturday that week, too. Come down and celebrate with us!</div>
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Brianna Bryngelson's paintings are up and brightening our world...you must come and see them for yourself...they are the perfect tonic for the winter blues!</div>
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Counting your blessings is a talent. It's not something that comes naturally to us as humans. We are hardwired to anticipate the next danger, our ears pricked, hairs raised, waiting to slay the dragon. We let down our guard and that's when the bad things happen. It is an important part of our nature, this vigilance, but it must not be all consuming. It is equally important to be able to pull back and live the present, not the one as monitored by social media or the news, but the moment as we experience it in real time, in real life. I have a trick I've recently learned for when I get overwhelmed by all the noise from outside and my own inability to affect a positive change over things beyond my control: I stop and try to think how life would be without all the gadgets that make my knowledge of these affairs possible. And how without them I would be attending to the matters at hand. At my hand. Worrying about those people I can help, feeding people I can see. This Thanksgiving for me will be spent being grateful for the love and support of my family, the unwavering loyalty from my friends and the bounty that which the earth has bestowed upon us. Tomorrow, I will get back to slaying dragons, er, sandwiches. </div>
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This fall I had an amazing opportunity to attend a camp on butchery with all women. It may seem strange, as we're a bakery and all, but now that we are serving dinners it has become very important to source our proteins responsibly. The fish is easy here, relatively speaking. But the meat is another story. And once you get that meat, how do you cut it to extract maximum in both flavor and value? Who knew this could even be an issue?! After a year and a half of running the dinner service, I know it is indeed a concern and one I needed to learn more about. So, meat camp it was. Best of all, my daughter Maya elected to join me. She flew in from college and we met in Chicago, a perfect mother-daughter get a way, don't you think? </div>
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Enter Grrls Meat Camp: A celebration of women and the tradition of putting food by. Over the 3 days together we learned the importance of caring for our animals while they are alive and especially how to care for them after the slaughter. The best part of this process for me was the intent with which we all worked. Every person there was focused on the tasks at hand, and with dispatching a 250 lb pig, there are many, many tasks. But before we got to the camp and the pig, we met in downtown Chicago at <a href="http://www.rangepartners.com/meet_kari.html" target="_blank">Kari Underly's</a> meat studio 'Range'. Kari was one of the hosts of the weekend, her book, <a href="http://www.rangepartners.com/book_buzz.html" target="_blank">The Art of Beef Cutting</a> is the new bible of meat cutters everywhere. Kari is truly an icon for a new generation of women in the field of butchery. </div>
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We were also led by the energetic and eloquent Kate Hill, who's <a href="http://kitchen-at-camont.com/" target="_blank">Kitchen at Camont</a> in Gascony has lured many to the altar of fine cured meats. Kate is the fairy godmother of the group, having hosted the first meat camp at her cooking school in France. </div>
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I was excited to meet Cathy Barrow, better known as Mrs. Wheelbarrow who's entertaining and informative <a href="http://www.mrswheelbarrow.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> has helped to inspire a whole revolution in home preservation. She is currently working on her new book, which I expect will become the new bible for preservationists everywhere! </div>
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The soul of the group was <a href="http://elainetinnyo.com/" target="_blank">Elaine Tin Nyo</a> an artist from NYC who works with food and people and their ever changing relationship. She truly brought out the avant garde in our weekend!</div>
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At the camp on Friday, we reconvened with gals like Erika Nakamura of the duo <a href="http://lindyandgrundy.com/" target="_blank">Lindy and Grundy Meats</a> in LA. Their 'face bacon' had <a href="http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/bizarre-foods/travel-guides/l.a.-pop-up" target="_blank">Andrew Zimmern</a> swooning...one taste and we were right there with him! </div>
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Friday night we carried the pig into the walk-in...we were quite sure this place had never seen anything like this before!</div>
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Erika, Andrea Diebler (the talented butcher of <a href="http://www.cityprovisions.com/" target="_blank">City Provisions</a>), Melody Nye (pig whisperer at <a href="http://www.melofarms.com/" target="_blank">Melo Farms</a>) and Kate Yelvington, (roaming farmer girl currently working at <a href="http://www.cureorganicfarm.com/" target="_blank">Cure Organic Farms</a>), all pull out the muscle to get this old girl bedded down for the night. </div>
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We toasted to a beautiful sunset and tucked into a wonderfully prepared 'Camont' Cassoulet from Kate.</div>
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An 18 month old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duroc_(pig)" target="_blank">Duroc</a> lady pig awaited us. Luckily the weather turned cold and crisp, we were able to work outside, the deck almost acting like a stage. A stage for educating, sharing and creating as we all lent our enthusiasm for learning how to make the most of such a precious resource, respecting the life of the pig and the traditions that brought us there in the first place.</div>
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Erika led the initial separation process, giving solid info colored with many anecdotes from her work.</div>
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Maya jumped right in, I never thought it could be emotional watching my girl saw through a piece of meat. </div>
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Kari was a thorough and patient teacher, encouraging everyone to join in!<br />
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Hurricane Sandy reared her ugly head and took away 4 of our group early, (Maya included, boo!), as they needed to get home before the storm closed down the airports. So sausage day Sunday was particularly intense with fewer hands. We all dove in and had a grand time pairing flavors and sharing the details of this process. I learned so much! </div>
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It was an incredible weekend, the best part being the women, and as you can tell from the roster above it was a strong group! We were joined as well by Kathy Skutecky, who acted as our personal pastry chef (Thanks for the treats, Kathy!) and writes her <a href="http://stresscake.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Stresscake</a> posts with humor and heart. The knowledgeable Rachel Narins of the duo <a href="http://www.chickswithknives.com/" target="_blank">Chicks with Knives</a> in Santa Monica, Rachel Miller the creative sous chef at <a href="http://www.bondircambridge.com/" target="_blank">Bondir</a> in Cambridge, <a href="http://equals.youplusme.com/greetings-from-grrls-meat-camp/" target="_blank">Ally Kirkpatrick</a>, Mrs. Wheelbarrows's girl friday and an accomplished cook in her own right. And last but not least, the delightful Lily Baker who signed on last minute and gave her all to the weekend! </div>
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We were chronicled by <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_964833682"></span>Jennifer Marx<span id="goog_964833683"></span></a>, photographer to the meat stars. Nina Barrett did a <a href="http://www.wbez.org/series/fear-frying-culinary-nightmares/grrls-meat-camp-teaches-women-fine-art-and-craft-butchering?fb_ref=wbez" target="_blank">radio piece</a> for WBEZ in Chicago, which garnered such vitriolic comments, I hesitated to share it here. In the end, I decided it was an interesting study in human nature. It is an important conversation to have: should we eat meat? Vegetarianism isn't for everyone, If we do eat meat, shouldn't it be raised responsibly and prepared well? It is a full on movement who's time has come. To know that these women are leading the way is something we should all be grateful for. I can't wait until Meat Camp 2014 in LA!</div>
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Thanks to everyone at the camp for such a wonderful weekend, The folks at Camp Duncan were great. Gratitude goes out as well to molly's mom who provided much of the bedding for us out of towners and to Kari's partner Ruth for caring so well for the whole group. </div>
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The winds have been blowing mightily all month bringing with them torrential rains and flooding all over the peninsula. Seward, Talkeetna and the Kenai River Basin have all been declared emergency areas. Homer has been somewhat spared the high water, but we have had our share of the wind and rain. It's made it a little difficult to enjoy what we love most about fall, the colors and the crisp air have been replaced with gray days and not being able to get to your car without being drenched. Definitely makes us a little jealous of our friends who have closed up shop for the season and flown south. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Spit" target="_blank">Homer Spit</a>, while a thriving, bustling place in the summer, all but shuts down in the winter. One of our favorite places to enjoy the spit on those long days is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kHd3Le0nDI" target="_blank">Finn's Pizza</a>. Finn's makes one of the best neapolitan style wood fired pizza's in the state and perhaps even the west coast. Honestly, if you are lucky enough to be sitting in their solarium on a lovely summer evening you might say it was the best pizza in the world! The lovely, hardworking family that owns Finn's lives near the bakery in the summer in a yurt close to the beach. In the winter they head for jobs in the lower 48. Lucky for us they had a little of their fine Nyman Ranch chorizo left over...we were happy to take it off their hands. Yesterday, I used it to spice up a hearty sausage chili.</div>
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With the smokey flavors of the chorizo and richly spiced with cumin and coriander, this chili is the perfect antidote to the winds of September. We'll be serving it today (while it lasts!).</div>
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Being in the restaurant business almost my whole life I've always thought of Labor Day as an ironical joke. Quite a few of the people who really labor for a living are rarely off that day. In fact, for us, it's one of the busiest days of the year. Once again we are reminded that to be in this business is to be working when everyone else is playing.</div>
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Thankfully we have an awesome group of people who crank right through it all with smiles on their faces.</div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5033451381605119" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Foraging is in. Actually, as long as we have been eating, it’s always been in. We just never really called it that. Anytime we go to the store for a quart of soy milk or dial up for a pizza to go, we are foraging. Only now, in this world of the culinary hyper-aware, the word and all it implies has taken on a whole new meaning. Restaurants don’t just have procurement managers, they have FORAGERS. Some, like <a href="http://noma.dk/" target="_blank">Noma</a> in Denmark or <a href="http://www.faviken.com/eng/historia_EN.asp" target="_blank">Faviken</a> in Sweden take it to the extreme by actually foraging in the wild for what goes on the plates in their restaurants. There is no olive oil in their kitchens. The subject takes on a whole new tone with the heightened interest people have in the food they eat. The other a day at work I had my head deep into a sink full of dishes when I overheard a customer ask if the figs in the tarts were local. I unleashed my best sarcastic comment about the fact that if figs could grow here in southcentral Alaska, this area would have a lot more people in it. I then I realized she was asking if they had been purchased locally, if so, she was going to go get some. She was, in a word, foraging. I sheepishly turned back to my dirty sheet pans, snarking to myself over how people have trained me to be defensive about the provenance of the food I serve. In a busy professional kitchen, foraging is an almost constant concern. What, where, when, how much...the decisions are never ending. In civilian life we make the same choices on a small scale every day without even really being conscious of it. Scientists say that the foraging behavior of animals changes according to the environment in which the animal lives. The more food available, the pickier they become. People around here tell stories of fishing on the rivers and seeing the bears pull a fish from the water and just bite out the belly, throw it aside and go catch another. Strewn all around them are fish with just the middles gone. Of course, that is when the fish are plentiful. If they were scarce, that bear would be dissecting the fish, leaving very little behind. So it goes with our current state of food affairs. Never before has food been so plentiful and so cheap, we can afford to buy the best and let the rest go to waste while the poor inner city communities struggle to provide the raw materials for nutritious food that is cheaper to buy than a bucket of commercially fried chicken. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I thought about all this as I struck out on my first foraging adventure of the season which found me in my yard harvesting the pesky and very hardy Stinging Nettle. My boots, moist with early summer rain, sink into the soggy, spongy ground. The smell of wet earth and ocean breathe hope in the air that winter is indeed over. Unlike the rest of the US, winter in Alaska did not want to let up its icy grip. The spring here was chilly and because of that, things are just starting to green up. My husband says that he always comes home from that first halibut fishing trip of the spring to find a whole new landscape in bloom. This year that did not happen until the second or third trip. Finally, though, the nettles came in and I headed down to the bottom of the yard where the patch grows best and I cut away, harvesting the top few sets of leaves. Every once in a while the stingers find a chink in my armor, leaving me with little itchy welts on the part of my wrist where my gloves and jacket fail to overlap. I persevere and pretty soon the laundry basket is full.Inside to the waiting pot of boiling water to blanch the sting out them so they can be ground into pesto and put into jars for the winter pantry. When I wrote a <a href="http://ruhlman.com/2012/06/stinging-nettle-pesto-recipe/" target="_blank">short piece</a> to share about the pesto making process, my friend and editor Jenny suggested I leave out the part about foraging, her assumption being most people would just buy them at the farmers market. Oh, you are mistaken I told her...people want to know everything these days. Especially if it involves food and where it come from. Now, my nettle pesto has a noble intent, but it is in no way completely local. The parmesan comes from italy and the nuts are from california (seriously). The olive oil I used to think comes from italy could, in fact be from anywhere and probably isn’t even olive oil, according to an article I just read. Local foraging has its limitations in the land of the midnight sun. Which reminds me of a story that the native elders tell about a couple of warring eskimo tribes living long ago in our area. There is a small island off the coast called Grass Island. It is just what its name implies, an island of grass and rock. When one tribe was under siege from a neighboring power they set their women and children on the island to protect them. They had to survive by lowering themselves down to pick the mussels off the rocks at low tide and eating the wild plants that grew there. These days foraging here is a little less difficult, but with the pressures of locally driven dining we have had to dig deep to find those precious mussels on the rocks of the current supply chain in the form of locally grown tomatoes. This is not a problem unique to the wilds of Alaska. The wilds of NYC serve up just as much of a challenge to find a ripe tomato with pedigree, or a tomato at all that hasn’t been turned into ketchup for all those french fries. Like the eskimo women on the island, the people who live there are forced to eat what is available, their ‘rocks’ a rickety fire escape with a few vegetables in pots, their grass a meager rooftop garden. If only we thought as much about what they are eating as we do about what we are. Then the tides truly would turn. </span></b>Carrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09573535290980530059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4461151269050623160.post-86390543450594882112012-08-26T05:25:00.000-08:002012-08-26T08:37:26.355-08:00The summer of crazy....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"If you would like to order, the line forms in front of the case and goes out that way. If you want to pay, stand over here in this line. Thank You!" This was the mantra heard over and over this summer as we tried our best to manage the clammering hoards of hungry people that queued up hoping for a hot coffee, a hot ham danish and a the momentary attention of a hot barista. It has been, in a word, epic. You would think that we are standing back reveling in our successes, but mostly Sharon and I look at each other and think, surely there is somewhere else these people can go? When we give voice to those thoughts the reaction is generally, no...not if you want fast good food in a place that makes you want to pull up a seat and hang around a while. We've also been lucky to ride on the coattails of some good press Homer has gotten lately with TWO articles in the Washington Post, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/two-washington-post-reporters-head-to-alaska-to-find-romance/2012/06/26/gJQAW9Hh6V_story.html" target="_blank">this one</a> on finding a man in Alaska had us rolling on the floor with their mention of the bakery as a lesbian hangout and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/vacationing-in-alaska-with-toddlers-in-tow/2012/08/02/gJQAJOTUUX_story_1.html" target="_blank">this one</a> on traveling with kids and also <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/travel/ci_21276716/alaska-locals-play-kenai-peninsula-and-so-can" target="_blank">this great piece</a> by Doug Brown in the Denver Post. It made us realize there is a lot of love out there for what we do, which sort of helps when we get emails like the one we got the other day. It was from someone who told us that they had a lovely sticky bun but that their mocha was cold and though they were disappointed they would not sue (what?!). It's true what they say, when you put yourself out there you are opening up the path for good and for, well, Crazy! </div>
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