Food

Mar 07 2018
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Chris Dankmeyer displays a sample of seal oil from a series of experiments working to get seal oil approved for state-licensed facilities. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)

Mixing science with traditional knowledge, researchers hope to get seal oil on the menu

By | Aging, Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Food, Northwest

There’s a traditional foods movement happening in Alaska. Dieticians, administrators, and others are trying to get more wild foods like moose, berries, and beach greens into health care facilities and schools. But there’s one food that elders really, really want, and they aren’t allowed to have: seal oil.

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Mar 02 2018
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Cyrus Harris and Brittnay Anderson package meat at the Siglauq in Kotzebue. (Photo by Hillman/Alaska Public Media)

To feed elders, traditional foods take untraditional route

By | Aging, Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Food, Northwest

Most people in northwest Alaska grew up eating traditional foods, like caribou, seal, and different kinds of fish. But as they aged and moved into long-term care facilities, those foods were no longer regularly available to them because of federal food safety regulations. A team in Kotzebue is changing that.

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