Booza is a frozen dairy dessert made from milk, sugar, sahlab, and mastic, processed through pounding and stretching rather than churning. Sahlab is a flour ground from the dried tubers of wild orchids; mastic is a resin harvested from trees native primarily to the Greek island of Chios. Together they produce a texture that has […]

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Akutaq is a traditional Alaska Native food made from whipped animal fat — historically seal oil, reindeer fat, or bear fat — beaten by hand until light and airy, then folded with berries, sometimes dried fish or meat, and occasionally snow. The name comes from the Yup’ik word meaning “something mixed.” It is most commonly […]

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