ALASKA'S NEWSPAPER

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Pilot Bread

Burgers, salmon, sundaes top Alaska's favorite cracker

The winners of the Pilot Bread recipe contest at the Native Youth Olympics in the Dena'ina Center take the podium on May 1, 2011. First place is Sue Hoeldt, from Aniak, with her Moose Burger recipe; second place was Lisa Feyereisen, from Crow Village, with her leftover blackened salmon recipe. Third place went to Janlynn Jimmie, from Bethel, for her hot fudge sundae recipe.

Ask Sailor Boy Pilot Bread lovers their favorite recipes and you'll learn that Alaskans have figured out how to make the big round crackers into something special.

Strick, Randazzo Jr. shine at NYO

What did they do to my old Sailor Boy pilot bread label?

For every "limited edition" box of Sailor Boy sold during March, 50 cents will be donated to First Book "to provide new books to children in need throughout Alaska."

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Alaska staple is safe: Rumors of Pilot Bread's demise are false

Alaskans may not live by Pilot Bread alone, but they profess an unmatched devotion to the round, durable, unsalted crackers. So when rumors circulated that -- gasp! -- Interbake Foods might drop the cracker from its menu, Alaskans panicked.

COMIC STRIP

Tundra: May

Flip through daily issues of "Tundra," Alaska's famous locally-drawn strip from Chad Carpenter.

POST A PIC

RSVP: May

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

SECTION

Gardening

It's that time of year to dig in the dirt. Find gardening columnists, photo galleries and events in this section.

PHOTOS

Barrow whale rescue 1988

Archive photos of the rescue of 3 California gray whales from the ice in Barrow.

PHOTOS

Best of 2011

Flip through galleries featuring the Daily News' picks for best images from 2011.

PHOTOS

Anchorage New Year

Anchorage was busy Saturday night, Dec. 31, celebrating the new year.

READER PICS

Best of 2011

From more than 4,000 reader photos posted to adn.com in 2011, we picked 100 of our favorites.

PHOTOS

Steam Engine #557

Alaska Railroad steam locomotive, Engine #557,arrived in Anchorage on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. The locomotive first came to Alaska in Dec. 1944 and was sold to a private museum in Moses Lake, Wash. in 1964. The Alaska Railroad hopes to restore it for excursions.

PHOTOS

Santa and reindeers

The Reindeer Farm hosted a holiday celebration on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2011, in Butte.

PHOTOS

Cirque de Hanukkah

The Alaska Jewish Historical Museum & Cultural Center's annual Hanukkah celebration at the Egan Center on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. The event featured the "African Acrobats" in their performance of "The Macrobats" a play on words referencing the Maccabees, the historic heroes of Hanukkah.



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