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The Whale and the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing, and Community in Alaska

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The Whale and the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing, and Community in Alaska - O'Malley, Julia, and Severson, Kim (Foreword by)
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From fish and fiddleheads to salmonberries and Spam, Alaskan cuisine spans the two extremes of locally abundant wild foods and shelf-stable ingredients produced thousands of miles away. As immigration shapes Anchorage into one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the country, Alaska's changing food culture continues to reflect the tension between self-reliance and longing for distant places or faraway homes. Alaska Native communities express their cultural resilience in gathering, processing, and sharing wild food; ...

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The Whale and the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing, and Community in Alaska 2019, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295746142

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