Sisters Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton learned to fillet a fish before they fit into their , harvesting听salmon aboard their family鈥檚 commercial boat in Alaska鈥檚 remote Aleutian Islands. Now they鈥檙e champions of the region鈥檚 fishing industry and have become the state鈥檚 most beloved influencer duo. They campaign for responsible fisheries management and fight听to preserve Alaska鈥檚 working听waterfront culture. In 2012, they launched a successful brand that sells sustainably caught fish as well as a trendy clothing line. As their business听grew, however, the sisters听started noticing that many of their customers weren鈥檛 very confident cooking听seafood. 鈥淲e realized that once we get fish into people鈥檚 hands, a lot of folks are still uneasy about preparing听seafood, largely because they don鈥檛 want to mess up such a beautiful product,鈥� says Neaton.听

The siblings鈥� latest endeavor aims to address this problem: a cookbook called . It鈥檚 a collection of 50 recipes听from their childhood dinner table. The dishes are curated by their mother and use ingredients abundant in most Alaskan communities鈥攕traight-from-the-sea fish, vegetables from personal gardens, and wild plants and berries鈥攂ut easy to purchase anywhere. 鈥淥nce people get used to cooking seafood at home, they realize how simple and easy it can be,鈥� says Laukitis.听鈥淚t鈥檚 really difficult to mess it up听as long as you don鈥檛 overcook it. Right now, with people working and spending more time at home, so many folks have expressed their excitement to learn about cooking fish.鈥�

The average American has a relatively small appetite for seafood, consuming just 14.9 pounds of it in 2018 compared to 55.4 pounds of beef and 90.1 pounds of poultry, according to the USDA. While market research shows that听, it has also found that many of us don鈥檛 feel equipped to identify ethically sourced听products, nor do we know how to prepare them properly. Sockeye salmon fillets seem easy to overcook and char beyond saving, steaming an enormous Dungeness听crab is quite a task for dinner, and who even knows what a geoduck is, let alone how to cook it听(for the record, it鈥檚 a species of large, odd-looking clam, and it鈥檚 pronounced 鈥済ooey duck.鈥�) Further, the market research found that when consumers听do make an attempt, they听pick the cheapest seafood option so it isn鈥檛 a waste when they mess it up.

The Salmon Sisters鈥� cookbook aims to be an entry point for anyone looking to add more seafood to their diet and support the nation鈥檚 small-scale fishermen in the process. They start from square one: how to source it. Laukitis and Neaton听recommend keeping an eye out for wild-caught American fish in your grocery store and听looking for labels from either the 听辞谤 听to听ensure it was sustainably caught. Local Catch鈥檚听 is a great way to purchase directly from fishermen in your area. And don鈥檛 be afraid of frozen or tinned fish if you live far from a coast, or, say, are in quarantine for the foreseeable future. 鈥淲e love tinned smoked salmon, sardines, tuna, oysters and octopus,鈥� says Laukitis. 鈥淚t is shelf-stable, which means you can take it on adventures, camping trips, bring it to work with you, and it doesn鈥檛 need to be refrigerated until it鈥檚 opened.鈥�

Neaton adds: 鈥淪ure, there鈥檚 nothing like fresh fish straight from the fishing boat, but frozen fish is processed and frozen quickly after it is harvested to maintain quality and freshness. It also keeps in your freezer for up to nine months, so you can enjoy it at your own pace and have a healthy reserve of protein on hand.鈥� You can order Alaskan seafood directly from the Salmon Sisters without leaving your house: they have frozen sockeye salmon, cod, and halibut , as well as a few听.

Once you have the ingredients, pick up their new cookbook, which provides context on how U.S. commercial fisheries operate and then explains how to fillet a whole fish properly. Afterward, the book lays out dozens of delicious recipes from easy (a wild-salmon poke bowl) to expert (a massive pot of spicy听cioppino鈥攁n Italian-American fisherman鈥檚 stew). Below are two recipes excerpted from the book that were family staples for the sisters growing up.

Coconut Curry Fish Soup

This Thai-inspired coconut curry soup is comforting like a chowder but also light and alive with fresh lime juice, ginger, and cilantro. We love making it on the boat because the ingredients are simple and readily available, yet the flavor is fresh and tangy. Red curry paste (we used store-bought) brings the broth to life with its red chilies, coriander, lemongrass, garlic, and shallots. This soup is tasty made with salmon, halibut, rockfish, or shrimp鈥攐r throw in a combination! You can double the recipe for a big pot that will last you all week,听adding fresh garnishes to each bowl you enjoy. When we鈥檙e fishing in Prince William Sound during the summer, we like to add fresh spot prawns that we鈥檝e caught and serve the soup over steaming white rice for an even heartier meal.听

Makes six听to eight听servings.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons coconut oil
• Half a yellow onion, diced
• 3 to 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup red curry paste
• 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
• 2 (14-ounce) cans coconut milk
• 2 1/2 cups fish, vegetable, or chicken stock
• 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (from about 2 limes)
• 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh ginger
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 cups thinly sliced carrots
• 1 1/2 cups chopped green beans
• 2 cups cubed wild skinless salmon, halibut, rockfish, or whole shelled shrimp
• 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish
• 2 limes, sliced, for garnish

Instructions

Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onion and saut茅 until translucent. Add the garlic and saut茅 until lightly browned. Add the curry paste and cook for one minute, stirring constantly. Add the brown sugar and cook for one minute. Stir in the coconut milk, stock, lime juice, ginger, and soy sauce.听

Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes. Add the carrots and cook for five minutes. Add the green beans and cook for five听more minutes听辞谤 until the vegetables are crisp-tender. Add the fish and cook for two minutes. Garnish the soup with cilantro and slices of lime.

Superfood Salmon Cakes

Our friend Jan has worked for many years as a commercial-fisheries manager for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, which is partly to say: she knows fish and she knows how to cook them. Jan鈥檚 salmon cakes often fuel the women who play on her ice-hockey team before tournaments听and herself on long open-ocean swims, but yours might be the perfect protein-packed weeknight meal. These salmon cakes are our favorite way to give leftover salmon a second life听辞谤 to use the canned salmon in our pantry cupboards. Serve with the spicy dipping sauce for maximum enjoyment.听

Makes four to six听servings.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil听
• 1 medium yellow onion, diced听
• 2 (15-ounce) cans wild pink or red salmon, or 4 cups cooked salmon, bones removed
• 1 1/2听cups Italian bread crumbs, plus more for dredging
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt听
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 3 large eggs, beaten
• 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• Vegetable oil, for frying

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• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon Tiger Sauce or other favorite hot sauce听

Instructions

Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Saut茅 the onion until translucent, then transfer to a small plate and set aside to cool. Wipe out the pan to reuse.

In a large bowl, mix together the salmon, bread crumbs, parsley, salt, pepper, and cooled onion. In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, and Worcestershire. Add the dressing to the salmon mixture. Form the mixture into one-third-cup balls and then flatten into burger-shaped patties. Dredge in bread crumbs.

In the large frying pan, heat the vegetable oil. Carefully lower the salmon cakes into the hot oil, frying them until golden brown, about three minutes per side.

Meanwhile, make the spicy dipping sauce by mixing together the mayonnaise and Tiger Sauce in a small bowl. Serve with the salmon cakes.

(c)2020 by Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton. Excerpted from Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska by permission of Sasquatch Books.听

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John Plant might be the most popular YouTuber听who has never spoken a word on camera. In the four years since the 36-year-old Australian started his channel, , he鈥檚 attracted 9.8 million subscribers and racked up over 775 million views on his 48 videos. What does he do听to capture such a large audience? In each video, he goes out into the bush near his home in far north Queensland, with nothing but his now signature pair of blue shorts, and silently creates handmade听shelters and tools using only what鈥檚 available to him in nature. That鈥檚 it. 鈥淧rimitive technology is a hobby, where you go into the wild bare-handed and make things from scratch without using any modern tools or materials,鈥� Plant says. 鈥淭hat includes making the tools you need to make things. You can, in theory, with enough time, make anything that exists in modern times.鈥�

In the channel鈥檚 , Plant builds a primitive wattle-and-daub hut, complete with a bed, fireplace, and chimney. But before viewers听see听the final structure, they watch Plant craft a stone hand ax听to chop wood, burn the wood to create a fire, gather material to fire clay pots, use the pots to carry water from a nearby stream, pour the water into dirt to make mud, and finally use the mud to insulate and support the walls of the听shelter. In other videos, he shows his audience听how to , how to , and how to听master .

Plant graduated from James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, and then worked stints in soil testing, at a pottery shop, and at a powder-coating factory before leaving the nine-to-five听world to mow lawns and spend more of his time in the bush. In 2015, he launched his YouTube channel and soon gained a large enough following that he could focus on building primitive dwellings full-time.

He was more surprised than anyone that so many people wanted to watch him painstakingly construct听things in nature. But his videos give viewers a pause from modern life. Amid all the noise of social media, there鈥檚 a shirtless man in rural Australia spending his days scouring the forest for the perfect clay deposit or a proper tree for a thatched roof. And it鈥檚 refreshing to watch someone work听in silence, without听nudging viewers听to subscribe to his channel or sneaking in mentions of corporate sponsors.听His quiet demeanor听is a source of regular quips in the comments. 鈥淚 just realized the reason he doesn鈥檛 speak is because he hasn鈥檛 invented language yet,鈥� wrote one viewer听on a recent video titled simply听鈥�.鈥�

After getting constant questions from viewers who wanted to听build from-scratch shelters in their own backyards, Plant decided to put all of his Stone Age knowledge into a guide. ($20, Clarkson Potter), out October 29, aims to be a wilderness resource for experienced craftsmen and newcomers听alike. It comprises听step-by-step instructions on a variety of ancient practices, from starter projects听like听digging sticks and hand axes听to complex structures听like updraft kilns and pyramidal huts. Ahead of the book鈥檚 release, we spoke with Plant about how he came to have听this hobby, his wildly popular YouTube channel, and his next project in the woods.

On How He Got Started: 鈥淚 first got into primitive technology when I was 11. It wasn鈥檛 strict bushcrafting听but rather what kids do naturally. Back then听it was building paths, bases, hideouts, and traps with other kids my own age. What got me into this hobby is a lack of computer games and material possessions. My parents could afford expensive toys for me but didn鈥檛 want to spoil me鈥攂etter for children to be active anyway.鈥�

鈥淚 used modern tools like machetes and ropes to make things. Then I suddenly decided that that was cheating and made a self-imposed rule of not using any modern tools or materials to make things in the bush. I can vaguely remember my first project,听at age 11,听was a simple hut with a low rock wall and a dome roof made of sticks, covered with sheets of bark and leaves. It鈥檚 not still around鈥攊t was below the water level of the creek in the wet season. But it was fun to build this first hut. It was a small home away from home.鈥�

On Why He Started Sharing His Work Online: 鈥淚 made videos to show friends and family, and they started saying I should put it on YouTube. The first video (鈥溾€�) shows the progression of a hut over nine months, with many components to it. I just kept editing new things into it to show people I met. Before that I only took photos of my projects for my own interest.鈥�

On His Reading List: 鈥淲hen taking on a project, you must research it thoroughly鈥攈ow much material was used, dimensions, weights, etc. Then you try to create the thing, see how it goes, and then try something else if it doesn鈥檛 work. Trial and error plays a big part after the research phase is done. I鈥檝e read听the , by John Wiseman,听for shelters and bow making and ,听by J.E. Rehder, for furnaces and pyrotechnology. But mainly internet research.鈥�

On the Most Difficult Skills to Learn: 鈥淔ire making and metallurgy. In learning fire making with the hand drill鈥攕pinning a stick in the socket of another stick鈥攎any blisters were had. I was 18 by the time I got my first fire. It would have been earlier if I had a teacher to learn from or today鈥檚 internet听at least. With smelting iron, I had to learn many different skills and made up some by myself.鈥�

On Staying the Night in One of His Shelters: 鈥淚鈥檝e stayed in听. It had underfloor heating, which I tested at night in winter. I put palm fronds on the sleeping platform, and it stayed warm all night. It rained a bit, but the roof kept the rain off, and I had a fire and bed made from wood and moss, quite comfortable. I ate yams and sweet potatoes from the garden in front of the hut. It lasted three years before termites ate the wooden roof and the tiles came down. The walls dissolved in the rain after that.鈥�

On How Popular His Channel Became: 鈥淚 was surprised when my videos started to pick up in popularity, to be honest. There was already a well-established bushcrafting community on YouTube, and I didn鈥檛 think I鈥檇 be anywhere near as popular as the outdoor and camping channels that used modern tools and materials. I thought that, at best, there would be a niche audience who was interested in making things completely from scratch in the wild. I think听there鈥檚 a lesson here for people reading this: if you have an unusual hobby that you鈥檙e interested in, but think others may not be, then put it out there for a larger audience to see. Chances are, if you鈥檙e interested in it, there will be at least a few thousand people in the world who are also.鈥�

On Being Silent in His Videos: 鈥淭hat was originally by laziness rather than by design. I showed my first video to two different friends initially, and both said the video needed narration or no one would watch it. I had edited the video already and couldn鈥檛 be bothered to narrate it. Though some people complained about the lack of narration, most preferred it to other channels that talked excessively. To compromise, I added subtitles that people could turn on in their YouTube settings for more in-depth, real-time explanation.鈥�

On How Engrossing the Work Is: 鈥淲hen I鈥檓 immersed in a task, I don鈥檛 think about anything else outside of it. That鈥檚 a good way to be. Sometimes I wonder what ancient people did, and how my work would compare to theirs, and what they鈥檇 think if they saw the way I do things. Most things they鈥檇 think I did听worse for sure, but some things better also.鈥�

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