Upcountry Cranberry

"In this collection of 44 recipes, accompanied by poems and stories and illustrated with more than 80 photos, Mary and Kari Odden chronicle their love of one of the north's most important and delicious wild foods. Lingonberries, commonly known in Alaska as "lowbush cranberries," have as many other names as the cultures who gather them in forest and tundra all around the top of the world. Lingonberry plants sustain animals and birds through arctic and sub-arctic winters. Long valued by western and Indigenous healers for their anti-oxidant and anti-bacterial properties, lingonberries stubbornly thrive across fire-tapestried hillsides and even leverage themselves against pollutants. Gathered in baskets and buckets, lingonberry is an iconic northern food. The berries ripen after a few frosts, arriving on the table just in time to brighten fall harvests of vegetables and meats. The tart berries and sauces are delicious with salmon and squash, in curry and coleslaw and savory casseroles -- as well as baked into sweet combination with their classic partners, oranges and chocolate"--