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Zona Spray Starks

Zona Spray Starks is a researcher of Arctic food history. She owned a cooking school in Ohio and taught culinary technique and theory around the world for some 30 years. She now lives in Florida.

Indigenous cultures of Alaska have enjoyed the frozen treat known as akutuq for many centuries. An Inupiaq word meaning “to stir,” akutuq traditionally consists of animal fat mixed with seal oil, whipped together with handfuls of berries and freshly fallen snow to make a frothy, frozen concoction.

What Is Eskimo Ice Cream?

Answer: Not your typical summer dessert