The Fiddlehead Cookbook: Recipes from Alaska's Most Celebrated Restaurant and Bakery

by Nancy DeCherney, John DeCherney, Deborah Marshall

The Fiddlehead Restaurant and Bakery has been a Juneau tradition since 1978, when its founder established a menu that celebrated Alaska's bounty of fresh, delicious ingredients and its jubilant spirit of adventure. In this lively and eclectic cookbook, the Fiddlehead Restaurant teams presents 150 of its most acclaimed, sought-after recipes. The colorful collection ranges from fresh Alaskan salmon and halibut to robust soups and sandwiches, light and healthy pasta dishes, grilled meats and stir fry, authentic sourdough breads, edible greens, wild berries, and extraordinarily delicious desserts--all prepared with creative flair and old-fashioned neighborliness that have made the Fiddlehead famous. Interspersed throughout are fascinating sidebars on such Alaskan passions as berry picking and glacier picnics, the fine art of smoking fish or preparing a while poaching salmon for holiday entertaining, and the springtime search for wild edibles like fiddlehead ferns, fireweed, beach asparagus, and morel mushrooms.

Brimming with Alaskan freshman and pride, The Fiddlehead Cookbook will delight everyone who longs to shares in this generous coastal cuisine.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not only is it filled with awesome recipes, there's just something special about reading a cookbook that mentions people you know and a town you love.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sadly, Alaska's most celebrated restaurant and bakery is no more, but it always was the first place I visited when I went home to visit my parents in Juneau. They had the best bread, and salads to die for, but the vegetarian French onion soup is the reason I bought this book. So good you just wanted to cry. We make it at least once year.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had chocolate mousse for the first time at this restaurant when I was in fourth grade. I'll never forget it. I've only made a handful of the recipes from this book--it's more of a trip-down-memory-lane book for me when I glance over the recipes.

[Sally · Rating 5 out of 5]

YUMMY! best cookies ever!!