Recipes, cookbooks & chefs from Alaska
Enjoy great seafood with help from these culinary experts
Alaska is home to a bounty of great seafood options - salmon, cod, sablefish, halibut, rockfish, crab - and not surprisingly some amazing culinary ventures including chefs, cookbooks, and recipes. Hungry yet? You will be after reading below.
The Salmon Sisters - Homer
The Salmon Sisters, Emma and Claire, from Homer embrace the Alaska lifestyle having grown up in a fishing family. They’ve created several cookbooks and will ship seafood they’ve caught straight to your door! Learn more on their website.
Living by the sea has inspired the way our family works, eats and lives. Our first cookbook The Salmon Sisters: Fishing, Feasting and Living in Alaska is a collection of our family's favorite recipes and stories from growing up on our Aleutian homestead, learning to cook on the boat, living close to the land and embracing a simple yet meaningful life. Our second cookbook, The Salmon Sisters: Harvest & Heritage is a guide to eating well through the seasons, with recipes and traditions celebrating the Alaskan spirit.
Ladonna Rose - Ketchikan
A California girl found love with a fisherman from Alaska. And now they and their cat fish on their small boat out of Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska. Ladonna has a plethora of cookbooks including:
My Tiny Alaskan Oven (recipes from cooking on the boat!)
Salmon, Desserts, and Friends
And cookbooks specializing in shrimp, crab, halibut, and salmon
Check out her creamy crab corn chowder recipe on Instagram and many more recipes on her website.
Beau Schooler - Juneau
Beau Schooler is chef and owner of In Bocca Al Lupo, a popular Italian restaurant in Juneau that was recognized by the New York Times on their 2023 Best Restaurants List. [If you find yourself in Juneau, obviously reservations are recommended!] The slogan on the In Bocca Al Lupo’s home page reads:
Telling a story of Alaskan cuisine through the lens of an Italian restaurant
Executive Chef Beau Schooler has been nominated for a James Beard award six times, four of them at Lupo. He was a finalist in 2023. Beau was nominated in 2025 by the James Beard Foundation as Best Chef: Northwest & Pacific.
Lionel Udippa - Juneau
Chef and founder of the Juneau restaurant Salt and Red Spruce, Lionel Udippa was featured in National Geographic Travel.
Juneau’s privileged position on the Gastineau Channel — where temperate forests reach seafood-rich glacial waters — has birthed a city of foragers, fishermen and hunters. And with the return of Cordon Bleu-trained chefs such as Lionel Uddipa, Juneau is taking Alaskan cuisine to new heights, where sustainably sourced salmon, wild game and foraged fare all take centre stage. We talk to Lionel to learn more about farm-to-fork cooking in the region and how new eateries are combining Alaskan traditions with sustainable practices.
Chef Udippa also won the Great American Seafood Cook-Off in 2017.
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute - recipes
Finally, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has a ton of great recipes and other resources to better understand Alaska seafood, including nutritional value, fishing practices, and more. Check out their recipe page to get started, including the Alaska Sablefish with Miso and Sesame Greens below.
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