How Alaska Eats: How to buy fresh salmon and rule the sourdough pancake universe (and other food news)

News, tips and tricks for anybody who eats in Alaska. [View this page at adn.com]( How to find fresh salmon and win at sourdough pancakes this weekend By Julia O'Malley Three kinds of sourdough pancakes, from left to right: white flour, gluten free/teff flour, buckwheat. (Julia O'Malley/ADN) Alaskans know how to eat. Find another place where people are better at DIY food (hunting it, fishing it, picking it; schlepping it on airplanes, ATVs, snowmachines, kayaks, in backpacks; butchering it, cleaning it, smoking it, freezing it, preserving it, and cooking it at home). You can't. To eat at our tables is to understand our culture. This newsletter is a place for recipes, news and insider tips for people who eat in Alaska. [Send](mailto:jomalley@adn.com) your feedback, Alaska food ideas and questions! Newsletter 2: Be the sourdough pancake king If you're from here, then a sweet, tangy bite of [sourdough pancakes]( can probably rocket you back in time to summer mornings when you were a kid, maybe waking up in the cool air at a cabin on a lake someplace. You can almost hear the propane stove click and the percolator rattle, can't you? And that glass Aunt Jemima syrup bottle, remember? Sourdough might be the most Alaska food ever. Its DIY yeasts are born of our particular air, its sponges were carried in the packs of early adventurers and relied on by the resourceful cooks in pioneer kitchens. There's a whole culty thing about secret recipes and ancient starters. But guess what? You can make pancakes this weekend and they can be awesome without any of that. [Get this How Alaska Eats newsletter delivered to your inbox every Friday: [Sign up here]( I spent a week, with the help of friends, touching up a vintage sourdough recipe and we have come up with [a fairly bulletproof classic recipe (including a '40s-era starter-making hack) plus a bonus recipe that's DEEELICIOUS, low on gluten]( and inspired by the African flatbread injera (BTW: did you know we [have an Ethiopian restaurant]( now?). Not feeling pancakes? Let's talk salmon. The bad salmon fishing news is piling up (most recently from [Kenai]( and the [Mat-Su]( but our market columnist wrote this week on how you can [slake your salmon thirst, buying straight from the fishermen](. Meanwhile, Maya Wilson [is serving up coconut iced tea down on the Kenai]( and she thinks you should, too. And in vintage burger joint news, another titan of the longtime local restaurant scene, [Richard Sanchis, proprietor of Arctic Roadrunner, has died](. Let's all take a quiet moment to appreciate the decades of kind messages on his restaurant signs. And then, with cash in our pockets, go eat an Attu burger in his honor? [Find more recipes and food news in the ADN [Food and Drink]( section] And, finally, if you are like me and want to torture yourself with glorious photos of salmon, you could follow Dillingham food blogger [Susie Brito on Instagram](. Please [send me](mailto:jomalley@adn.com) your Alaska food questions and ideas or [help me test recipes]( Happy pancake-making. Thanks for reading and eating. [ALASKANA RECIPE: SOURDOUGH PANCAKES]( Read last week's newsletter, about important [#GinResearch]( with a recipe for [the historic Alaska cocktail](. Julia O'Malley is an editor at the Anchorage Daily News and a freelance food writer, working on a book with the Anchorage Museum about how Alaska eats. Copyright © 2018 Anchorage Daily News, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website to receive email updates. "How Alaska Eats" is our new newsletter focussed on the recipes and food options that make Alaska unique. If do not want to receive this email please choose 'unsubscribe'. Our mailing address is: Anchorage Daily News 300 W. 31st Ave.Anchorage, AK 99503 [Add us to your address book](//adn.us1.list-manage.com/vcard?u=186a3ffe5c9fcb68d09408dc5&id=04888e7980) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.