Fishmaster's Inn takes the prize for the best commercial kitchen I've ever had the privilege of working in. With floor to ceiling windows, I can view the finery of Alaska and get paid to do it.
What it lacks in professional equipment, it makes up for by having the most spectacular view, right from the kitchen. I don't have to step around a corner, like I did at the Elfin Cove Lodge (summer 2007), nor do I even have to walk outside, although I have a high perched balcony right out the sliding glass doors, and do go outside often.
Conveniently, I can see everything right from my work space. Where else in this world can you look out a window, at a portion of the Glacier Bay National Park, while putting bread into the oven?
Whales play in the cove just below our windows, hummingbirds zoom by the balcony and eagles soar over head.
The water has been like glass and the sun has been shining almost every night around dinner time.
This place is breathtaking and beyond words.
The sun doesn't set until around 9:30pm but it doesn't actually get dark until well after 10:00pm. The other night we had a vibrant sunsets, reflecting over the Brady Glacier and Fairweather Mountain Range. The snow covered peaks illuminate in a "vision-from-God sort of way.
At times I'm rendered speechless, words become so insignificant, and I become humble before the universe. I'm so happy to be here.
I've been cooking lots of rock fish (tonight it was yellow eye), baking it in white wine and turning the leftovers into chowder. Tomorrow night I finally get my hands on some halibut for Halibut Parmesan. No king salmon yet, except the smoked variety, but I know it is coming.
Once again, my apologies for not providing current photos ( I tried to capture Friday night's sunset on film), but our internet connection isn't fast enough for me to upload pics. Fortunately, I was able to post some photos previous from Elfin Cove, when I was here in 2007.
Thanks to everyone who has commented on my blog, I appreciate the feedback.
Wow, it sounds like you are exchanging the world of technology for the world of nature. I was actually reminded of little bit of a poem by Allen Ginsberg called "a supermarket in California," (http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15306). I was reminded of this poem because it offers kind of an ironic understanding about the world we live in, compared to the world of nature that we used to live in. For Ginsburg, he was now living in a world where supermarkets were open 24 seven and where he could go out into nature and just enjoy the sounds, he had to enjoy neon signs. So you are having one of those kind one of those moments. enjoy it and take a break from the other stuff, that is of course from everything but my class.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds beautiful. I doubt it would be easy to do, but I would love to see some pictures of the kitchen/restaurant to get a feel for where you're working. We seem to have more or less opposite versions of life, where you seem to pick up and go often, and I tend to stay rooted. For that reason, I find things like this fascinating. It's a whole different world.
ReplyDeleteI loved the blog! When I was growing up, every year, my parents and I would take a trip to the ocean and buy 10 huge tuna fishes directly off the fishing boat. Then we'd take them home, put a curtain up between the kitchen and the rest of the house (to block the smell) and my dad would spend several hours cutting up the fish. We canned the tuna, and my dad also made cat food from the parts of the fish we wouldn't be eating. It was the best canned food ever! My parents haven't done that in a long time due to age, but we still can barely stand the taste of tuna from a can gotten at the grocery store. The cats wouldn't eat it either! :)
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