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Alaska Native Medical Center kitchen staff get a lesson in traditional knowledge: Seal processing

Wielding a sharpened piece of volcanic glass, Tim Ackerman sliced into the thawing carcass of a harbor seal. “You want to keep parallel to the hide like this, as close as you can to the skin,” Ackerman said, narrating his deft movement separating skin from fat to a dozen chefs, nutritionists and cultural practitioners on […]