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Erin Anais Heist slices into her spruce tip rhubarb cake on Thursday, June 6, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Eating Wild: Rhubarb and Spruce-tip Cake

It’s decadent, elegant and simple.

  • Jun 12, 2019
  • By Erin Anais Heist For the Juneau Empire
  • food
Erin Anais Heist slices into her spruce tip rhubarb cake on Thursday, June 6, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Eating Wild: Portuguese Fisherman’s Stew, Southeast Alaska style

Eating Wild: Portuguese Fisherman’s Stew, Southeast Alaska style

The perfect food for a cold wintery night.

Eating Wild: Portuguese Fisherman’s Stew, Southeast Alaska style
A measuring cup full of bog cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccos) is seen in the kitchen of Erin Anais Heist on Oct. 14, 2018. (Erin Anais Heist | For the Juneau Empire)

Eating Wild: Cranberry-apple bread

It’s just sweet enough — not too sweet.

A measuring cup full of bog cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccos) is seen in the kitchen of Erin Anais Heist on Oct. 14, 2018. (Erin Anais Heist | For the Juneau Empire)
A sweet potato and salmon quiche ready for the oven on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Eating Wild: Salmon quiche with sweet potato crust

I’m always looking for new ways to use salmon.

A sweet potato and salmon quiche ready for the oven on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Eating Wild: Spicy Baked Beans with Highbush Cranberry

Eating Wild: Spicy Baked Beans with Highbush Cranberry

It’s a commonly held belief that taste and smell are the senses most closely tied to memory. The smell of highbush cranberries is unmistakable —… Continue reading

Eating Wild: Spicy Baked Beans with Highbush Cranberry
Eating Wild: Blistered Beach Asparagus & Dungeness Crab Salad

Eating Wild: Blistered Beach Asparagus & Dungeness Crab Salad

Beach asparagus is truly the best pickle you’ll ever have.

Eating Wild: Blistered Beach Asparagus & Dungeness Crab Salad
Eating Wild: Lovage & Sorghum Salad

Eating Wild: Lovage & Sorghum Salad

Fresh, clean, with a little bite and celery undertones, this easy and delicious salad highlights the flavor of wild lovage. Lovage, a member of the… Continue reading

Eating Wild: Lovage & Sorghum Salad
Erin Anais Heist prepares candied chum salmon at her home kitchen on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Eating Wild: Candied salmon without a smoker

Like most Alaskans, I’m a salmon fiend. I love everything about salmon: hooking them, fighting them, whacking them, filetting them, cooking them and most of… Continue reading

  • Jul 2, 2018
  • By ERIN ANAIS HEIST
Erin Anais Heist prepares candied chum salmon at her home kitchen on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Erin Anais Heist prepares candied chum salmon at her home kitchen on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Eating Wild: Candied salmon without a smoker

Like most Alaskans, I’m a salmon fiend.

  • Jul 3, 2018
  • By ERIN ANAIS HEIST Juneau Empire
  • Local News
Erin Anais Heist prepares candied chum salmon at her home kitchen on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Eating Wild: Beach Greens Quick Kimchi

Eating Wild: Beach Greens Quick Kimchi

I grew up here in Southeast Alaska with a childhood full of blueberries, huckleberries, high-bush cranberries, salmon berries, spruce-tip jelly, sea lettuce and beautiful wild… Continue reading

  • Jun 18, 2018
  • By ERIN ANAIS HEIST
Eating Wild: Beach Greens Quick Kimchi
Eating Wild: Beach Greens Quick Kimchi

Eating Wild: Beach Greens Quick Kimchi

The indigenous communities of Alaska have been living with these plants and this land for millenia.

  • Jun 19, 2018
  • By Erin Anais Heist Juneau Empire
  • Local News
Eating Wild: Beach Greens Quick Kimchi
Erin Anais Heist, author of a new cooking column called “Eating Wild” for the Juneau Empire, studies the flavors in her galette made with with rhubarb, spruce tip and ricotta cheese in her home kitchen on Monday, May 21, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Eating Wild: Spruce-tip, rhubarb and ricotta galette

With great power comes great responsibility, and I’m cautioning you now, do not bake this galette unless you have a plan for how it will… Continue reading

  • May 28, 2018
  • By ERIN ANAIS HEIST
Erin Anais Heist, author of a new cooking column called “Eating Wild” for the Juneau Empire, studies the flavors in her galette made with with rhubarb, spruce tip and ricotta cheese in her home kitchen on Monday, May 21, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Erin Anais Heist | For the Juneau Empire Fiddleheads with garlic breadcrumbs and sausage.

Eating Wild: Fiddleheads with garlic breadcrumbs

Fiddleheads are the gateway for many novice foragers. Easy to recognize, easy to pick, and oh so charming with their dainty curly-cues. In texture, fiddleheads… Continue reading

  • May 22, 2018
  • By ERIN ANAIS HEIST
Erin Anais Heist | For the Juneau Empire Fiddleheads with garlic breadcrumbs and sausage.
Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, mayor of the Inupiaq village of Nuiqsut, at the area where a road to the Willow project will be built in the North Slope of Alaska, March 23, 2023. The Interior Department said it will not permit construction of a 211-mile road through the park, which a mining company wanted for access to copper deposits. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Biden shields millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness from drilling and mining

The Biden administration expanded federal protections across millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness on Friday, blocking oil, gas and mining operations in some of the… Continue reading

Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, mayor of the Inupiaq village of Nuiqsut, at the area where a road to the Willow project will be built in the North Slope of Alaska, March 23, 2023. The Interior Department said it will not permit construction of a 211-mile road through the park, which a mining company wanted for access to copper deposits. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
A glacier in northern British Columbia. Glacier retreat is opening up new streams and lakes that represent future habitats for species such as salmon. (Photo by Jonathan Moore)

My Turn: Climate change melting glaciers and creating new salmon habitat — but being staked for gold mining

New scientific analysis shows impacts on Taku, Stikine and Unuk rivers.

A glacier in northern British Columbia. Glacier retreat is opening up new streams and lakes that represent future habitats for species such as salmon. (Photo by Jonathan Moore)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife research building on Wednesday morning after CCFR crews worked to extinguish an internal fire Tuesday night inside the building’s furnace unit. (Jonson Kuhn / Juneau Empire)

Small structure fire at Fish Wildlife building

CCFR reports minimum damage and no injuries.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife research building on Wednesday morning after CCFR crews worked to extinguish an internal fire Tuesday night inside the building’s furnace unit. (Jonson Kuhn / Juneau Empire)
People enjoy the Ipanema beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov.13, 2022. The world's population is projected to hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday, Nov. 15, according to a United Nations projection. (AP Photo / Bruna Prado)

World Population hits 8 billion, creating many challenges

The U.N.’s Day of 8 Billion milestone Tuesday is more symbolic than precise.

  • Nov 15, 2022
  • By Dan Ikopyi and Chinedu Asadu Associated Press
  • Nation-World
People enjoy the Ipanema beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov.13, 2022. The world's population is projected to hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday, Nov. 15, according to a United Nations projection. (AP Photo / Bruna Prado)
This aerial photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service shows a tundra fire burning near the community of St. Mary's, Alaska, on June 10, 2022. Alaska's remarkable wildfire season includes over 530 blazes that have burned an area more than three times the size of Rhode Island, with nearly all the impacts, including dangerous breathing conditions from smoke, attributed to fires started by lightning. (Ryan McPherson / Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service)

Alaska experiencing wildfires it’s never seen before

Already more than 530 wildfires have burned an area the size of Connecticut.

This aerial photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service shows a tundra fire burning near the community of St. Mary's, Alaska, on June 10, 2022. Alaska's remarkable wildfire season includes over 530 blazes that have burned an area more than three times the size of Rhode Island, with nearly all the impacts, including dangerous breathing conditions from smoke, attributed to fires started by lightning. (Ryan McPherson / Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service)
A Forest Service fire crew gets brief during an operation. Fire crews from Alaska are frequently deployed to the Lower 48 to help combat wildfires that are growing larger and closer to urban areas in many cases. (Courtesy photo / Parker Anders)

Into the fire: Alaska’s wildlands firefighters eye coming dry season

Alaska’s wildlands firefighters lend a hand where needed nationwide.

A Forest Service fire crew gets brief during an operation. Fire crews from Alaska are frequently deployed to the Lower 48 to help combat wildfires that are growing larger and closer to urban areas in many cases. (Courtesy photo / Parker Anders)
Glacial retreat will create thousands of miles of new salmon habitat by 2100 — which means, scientists say, that managers need to be thinking proactively about how to manage that land. Pictured is a king salmon on a Southeast Alaska shore. (Mary Catharine Martin / SalmonState)
Glacial retreat will create thousands of miles of new salmon habitat by 2100 — which means, scientists say, that managers need to be thinking proactively about how to manage that land. Pictured is a king salmon on a Southeast Alaska shore. (Mary Catharine Martin / SalmonState)