Cuisine

Farm and Sea to Galley

Catching Crabs

August 6, 2018May 6, 2026 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018

After several futile attempts at catching crabs in our pot carried aboard Jupiter since Bellingham, with purchased fishing licenses for B.C. and Alaska, we finally reaped a generous haul of ... Read more

Kushtakas & Kedgeree

July 13, 2018May 6, 2026 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018

Thomas Bay is a place of dark secrets and myths. In this narrow, well marked entrance channel tide-rips and whirlpools greeted Jupiter with bergy bits and growlers riding the flows. ... Read more

Totem Carver’s Halibut

July 8, 2018May 6, 2026 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018

Seeking neither a famous totem pole carver nor a halibut recipe, we happened upon both in one gentle, languorous, soft-spoken man. Having taken a walk to Saxman Village to see ... Read more

The Queen of King Salmon

June 28, 2018May 6, 2026 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018

Meet Trish. We did. She is a remarkable woman who traded in her life in Illinois when Alaska called her name. She jumped aboard an offshore, power-troller fishing vessel in ... Read more

The Devil’s Egg Triangle

June 11, 2018May 6, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2018

Moving north beyond the 50th parallel we have reached The Broughtons, a maze of small islands and islets that roughly form a triangle, hard-edged by the Straits of Johnstone and ... Read more

Tides & Times, Fish & Wines

June 2, 2018May 6, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2018

Moving northwest through Desolation Sound compels every boat to pass through several challenging tidal rapids. These can be safely navigated only at slack tide. After wrestling with the maths and ... Read more

Deep Prawns

May 28, 2018May 6, 2026 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Spring 2018

Having ventured into one of the many abyssal fjords on the Sunshine Coast we moored at a rustic dock at Backeddy Resort & Marina with its fierce currents. A local fishing ... Read more