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Each summer, a young girl and her family travel to remote Egegik, Alaska, where they join a salmon fishing crew.

A hot day and hanging over your stove were never meant to be. When fresh produce beckons but you haven't much energy to respond, these recipes help you settle into a more relaxed kind of cooking designed to keep you and your kitchen cool. Untether yourself from the oven with make...

"Reg is a bear whose name rhymes with EGG. Reg wakes up one fine summer morning with his head full of possibilities: swimming, berry picking, fishing for minnows. Then his big sister Co-co tells him that today she’s going to teach him to catch a salmon. Reg’s heart beats louder, ...

All summer long Simon has been desperate to catch a salmon. Then one day an eagle drops a salmon into a clam hole right before his eyes, and Simon must decide whether to take it home or let it go.

"Gina Homolka, founder of the longstanding go-to healthy eating blog Skinnytaste, is an expert at creating super simple, weeknight friendly, flavor-packed recipes that meet all your dietary needs, and in Skinnytaste High Protein, she delivers on that promise with 100 high-protein...

"Mediterranean Every Day embraces a style of cooking that celebrates flavor while embracing a relaxed, flexible attitude. It's simple enough for a mid-week meal, but never out of place for a weekend gathering with friends. Beyond the recipes, this is a book that teaches how to bu...

"The welcome call of "Mitji" can be heard by Mi'kmaw children, hungry workers, family, and friends when dinner is ready. This book, too, is an invitation to celebrate and practice Mi'kmaw foodways: the recipes passed down from one generation to the next; the way traditional foods...

Includes the five legends and stories of the Cree, West Coast, Ojibwa and Micmac Indians. Christmas at Moose Factory (13 min.): Christmas in a Cree settlement on the shores of James Bay is delightfully presented through children's drawings. Salmon People (25 min.): The romantic W...

Join Christopher Kimball and the cast of America's Test Kitchen to learn the basics of great home cooking. This special collection also includes independent reviews of indispensable kitchen equipment, and recommendations for supermarket staples from chocolate and white wine vineg...

Royal Teas, the follow-up to A Royal Cookbook, shares Royal Chef Mark Flanagan's recipes for a variety of tantalizing tea-time treats, including sweet and savory pastries, cookies, and show-stopping cakes. Each recipe is reproduced with clear instructions and a table to convert m...

"Jess Damuck's feel-good recipes make eating healthy an easy habit to make and keep. Being a health nut is delicious, rewarding, and supremely satisfying, without any feeling of deprivation. It's all about perfecting the basics and then getting creative to play up natural flavors...

A photo essay describing a young native Alaskan boy fishing for salmon on Kodiak Island as his ancestors have done for generations.

"Summer, 1968. For the first time since his big brother, Eddie, disappeared two years earlier -- either a runaway or dead by his own hand -- sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mother, Grace, and her friend Isabel have gone south to the United States...

It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Grego...

Summary: Christmas at Moose Factory. Christmas in the Cree settlement on the shores of James Bay is delightfully presented through children's drawings. (13:07) -- Salmon People. The romantic west-coast legend of the Salmon Princess is contrasted with the reality of today's native...

An intriguing and unusual collection of biographies and art, Female Gazes is a popular introduction to the lives and work of some remarkable women artists from the Renaissance to the present. Vivid reproductions and commentary accompany the life stories of a diverse group of wome...

Based on author Sara Florence Davidson's childhood memories, this illustrated story captures the joy and adventure of a Haida fish camp. Every summer, a Haida girl and her family travel up the Yakoun River on Haida Gwaii, following the salmon. While their father fishes, the girl ...

A young boy describes his summers spent fishing for salmon with his parents and younger brother off the southeastern coast of Alaska.

L'íl'wata is Alanis Obomsawin's 1975 film re-mastered and re-released on DVD from the National Film Board. In her early film career, Alanis Obomsawin visited the people of the L'íl'wat First Nation and provided them with an opportunity to record their personal narratives about ...

"The Yukon River is 3,190 kilometres long, flowing northwest from British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Every summer, millions of salmon migrate the distance of this river to their spawning ground, where they go to breed and then die. The Chin...