Comments on: Business Interruptus # 1

by: healthcare other

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:08:34 +0000

healthcare other…

dictation forcer gigawatt …

by: Chuck Luckmann

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:57:46 +0000

Austin,

I’m pleased you enjoyed the bread recipe. I’m working on another recipe, which I’ll post if it survives the “thought kitchen.”

Chuck

by: Jim Chioffe

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:11:24 +0000

Ask for the clear glazed ribs at the klondike Rib and Salmon….Oh so good{:)

by: Ian

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:05:35 +0000

Lynda,

How cool is that. I’m thrilled that Donna, from The Klondike Rib and Salmon Grill in Whitehorse, was able to track you down and deliver my note. Bummer to have missed you but it sounds as though you had a great trip in the Tombstone Mtns.
Next time we’ll provide a bit more advance notice. The fresh salmon sounds tasty, especially over a few crazy stories from times gone by.

by: lynda ehrlich

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:57:36 +0000

My dear friend Ian!
While you were making your way down the magnificient Snake River, I was a few valleys over hiking in the Tombstone Mtns. Sorry to have missed you and your friends - I owe you a solid Yukon hosting! The Snake… and the entire river drainage system with the Wind and Bonnet Plume - are some of the finest rivers to run and wild country to savour. I hope your trip went well and I truely hope that next time you travel in this spectacular part of the world, I’ll be around to cook fresh salmon (my preference over Char!), help you snag rides to wherever you may need to get to, and enjoy some crazy stories from a lifetime ago!

Thanks to Donna for passing along your note. Hope our paths cross one day!

by: Austin Ramsland

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:31:00 +0000

Chuck,

That. Was. Fantastic.

I would love to know if you have any other recipes that you would like to share. . .

by: Ian

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:15:45 +0000

Chuck was one of six friends on our Snake River trip. He was also our chief baker which his \”prose poem\” reflects. Thanks Chuck, for your scrumptious breads and wonderful poem.

by: Chuck Luckmann

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:46:59 +0000

A Recipe for Baking Bread on the Snake River in the Yukon Territories

Leave home and fly to Whitehorse,
Bring flour, yeast, salt, oil,
Rent a canoe from UpNorth Outfitters,
Eat at the Klondike Rib & Salmon BBQ
(Tell Donna you want the Arctic char),
Hire someone to drive you to Mayo—
300 km closer to your rendezvous
With mountains, whitewater,
Made-in-the-Yukon bread.

But you’re not there yet—
In Mayo give Denny $3200
And he’ll fly you in a small bush plane
135 miles closer to the Arctic Circle,
To Duo Lakes, in the Mackenzie Mountains,
Surrounded by peaks at 6,500 feet,
But there’s little wood for your fire here.

Carry your canoe and supplies 1.5 km
To Snake River and paddle 10 km
Downstream to Reptile Creek—
Carefully descend rapid after rapid
Through the first canyon—use a spray skirt
To keep bread fixings, other food and gear dry,
Especially in June when the water is high.

Camp on the gravel bar
Near the mouth of Reptile Creek,
Check for grizzly tracks
While you collect wood—scrub birch and willow.

As fire burns down to embers
Mix dry ingredients, add water,
Knead into a dough—let rise,
Punch down, let rise again, then
Place in 9” x 12” Kamper’s Kitchen
(similar to a Dutch oven, only better).

Dig coals from fire,
Place a thin layer under oven
And a thick layer on top.
Now sit down and wait.
Maybe boil hot water for tea or coffee.
Look downstream, look upstream,
Gaze into the Goz Valley,
Without a word internalize
Glaciated mountain landscape panarama.

After an hour take the lid off—
Test your bread. Maybe it needs
A few more coals underneath
If it’s a bit doughy—
But don’t over do it,
It’s easy to burn at this stage.
When your bread looks, feels, and smells done,
Let it cool—or,
If you’re in a hurry to have a piece,
Because it’s all good, now or later,
Slice into hefty pieces, serve 6.

—Chuck Luckmann