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Sam finally moved back home to Fairbanks after finishing her rookie Iditarod. Lately she’s been sitting in a recliner. A fully unemployed bum, she is. But that’s just fine. This is the first time she’s been unemployed as a “dog handler” since 2019 — that’s six years of scooping dog poop for other people. Now…
Uncle Sven’s Armpit sourdough recipe
Here follows a rough guide on how to create, cultivate, and utilize your own personal, historically authentic sourdough starter as taught to me by my mother, as taught to her by her mother, and so on. Author’s Note: As far as I’m aware, there are no official pronouns for yeast yet so “they” and “it”…
The Origin of the Lost Sourdough
There is a painting of my great uncle Sven in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North. In this painting, Sven’s about to die in a blizzard and nobody knows it’s him but us. It was a rare day off from work that Sam and I were wandering around the UAF museum. A…