Alaska Bites

The Alaska Railroad expands it's menu for the summer to have more local foods.

The $5 Alaska Grown Challenge starts Thursday. The pitch is for Alaskans to spend $5 every week on Alaska grown products, which could dramatically impact the local economy.

This is a rough estimate for Emily Garrity's vegetable stir fry. Really, you can use any vegetables you want.

Senator Dan Sullivan's Alaska Seafood Newburg recipe.

To make pancit your wok should be smoking hot, sending off curls of steam. Next to it, have piles of carrots, celery, shredded cabbage, onions, snow peas and chicken, cut thinly and ready to dump into hot oil and garlic.

Lona Schroeder's favorite memory of her life in Dillingham was of her her mother, bent over steaming pots of food, salmon cooking beside her and big bowls of salmonberry and blueberry Akutaq on a long table waiting for friends to stop by for lunch. Her family is just one of many across Alaska preparing traditional foods for Thanksgiving across Alaska. Here's one of her recipes.

Every Wednesday and Saturday a cluster of tables line the inside of the Mall at Sears. You can buy potatoes, carrots, parsnips and pork, there are purple carrots, deep, rich, slightly sweet and fruity with that blue edge that hovers around the color of Barney the Dinosaur.

The idea was to fly to Homer, catch a water taxi to Tutka Bay Lodge from Anchorage, eat some local seafood, cook, and learn about food writing from one of the greats -- New York Times food editor and former chief restaurant critic Sam Sifton.

A recent economic report shows that the Alaskan craft beer industry has a half a billion dollar impact.

Two words: Halibut Sashimi. Rebecca Palsha teams up with Channel 2's Kari Bustamante on this week's Alaska Bites to show off some of Kari's culinary skills.

Alaska Bites heads to Moose's Tooth, but we're not there for the pizza.

"Hearth Artisan Pizza." Channel 2's Rebecca Palsha has the story in today's Alaska Bites.

Channel 2's Rebecca Palsha features Cafe Amsterdam in this week's Alaska Bites.

Over in Chugiak, there's a tiny restaurant that only seats about 20 people. Most people haven't heard of the Chugiak Cafe and the owners hope many haven't.

About two years ago, Tyla Castro says she was having a kind of mid-life crisis. As a result, she started praying and asking for guidance. The crisis turned into more than just a soup delivery service.

Is your Facebook feed full of "Tasty" videos? The Internet has an major appetite for food content, and BuzzFeed is winning that category with Tasty, which now has more than 50 million followers on Facebook.

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