Sharon Samuels took her first cooking job at a summer camp when she was just sixteen. Since then she has cooked on a tour boat in the Inside Passage, at a remote camp in Antarctica, on her farm in Oregon, and has taught cooking classes in Japan and Alaska. She has taken every opportunity to sample and experiment with food around the world. This is her first book. She lives with her husband in Girdwood, Alaska, where they enjoy harvesting the local bounty.