Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska
- Author: Dolly Garza
- Pub. no.: SG-ED-46
- Year: 2005
- No. pages: 57
- Price: $10.00 US
- ISBN: 1-56612-086-1
Description
For millennia, Alaska Natives have subsisted on the wild edibles—plants, animals, and seaweeds—found in abundance along Alaska's shores. In this book, Dr. Dolly Garza, a Haida-Tlingit Indian, tells how to locate, identify, and prepare several species of seaweeds and one beach plant as tasty snacks and for the dinner table.
A University of Alaska Fairbanks professor of fisheries based in Ketchikan, Dolly was raised in Southeast Alaska where her family harvested seaweeds as a diet staple, a practice they continue today. Dolly enjoys sharing her traditional Native knowledge through presentations to local residents, youth groups, and Elderhostel visitors. Now in this book she shares with you her firsthand knowledge about the pleasures of harvesting, preparing, and eating some of the most common and delectable wild edibles found along the Gulf of Alaska coast.
Recipes for seaweed seasonings, snacks, main and side dishes are included.
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Awards
- Selected as a 2006 Notable Government Document by the Library Journal. Notable Government Documents "illustrate government publishing at its very best." (Library Journal, May 15, 2007, pp. 52–58.)
- Winner of a 2006 Award of Excellence for softcover books over 50 pages, National Association of Government Communicators.
- Winner of a 2006 Bronze Award for 1–3 color popular publications, Association for Communication Excellence.
