Eating Alaska

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Production Company
New Day Films
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Length (in minutes)
56min
Year
2009
Description

"Eating Alaska" asks, and tries to answer, questions about our food choices when confronted with the nexus of contemporary consumer culture, even in a place as wild, remote, and steeped in traditional cultures and foodways as Alaska.

From the movie's website:

What happens to a vegetarian who moves to Alaska and marries a commercial fisherman and deer hunter?

Join her on a wry search for a sustainable, healthy and ethical meal. Women try to teach her to hunt, teens gather traditional foods, vegans give cooking lessons, she fishes for wild salmon, scrutinizes food labels with kids and finds toxic chemicals getting into wild foods. With humor and compassion, the documentary "Eating Alaska" shows natives and non-natives trying to balance buying industrial processed foods with growing their own and living off the land in the 21st century. Made by a former urban vegetarian now living on an island in Alaska, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to where we live and what we put into our mouths. (http://www.eatingalaska.com)