Kirsten M. Dixon Creative Culinary Fiction and Nonfiction

Kirsten Dixon

photo credit: Jeff Schultz

Author Biography

Kirsten Dixon is chef and owner of three wilderness lodges in Alaska. She has written several cookbooks, including The Winterlake Lodge Cookbook, which won the Best Female Chef Award at the Gourmand International Cookbook Awards. Kirsten enjoys gardening, cooking and living a life close to nature.
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Influences

Annie Dillard
Terry Tempest Williams
Basho
Ferran Adria

Favorite Books

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
The Pillow Book - Lady Sei Shonagan
Refuge - Terry Tempest Williams
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Basho
The Cook's Book - Jill Norman editor
Auberge of the Flowering Hearth - Roy Andries de Groot

What I'm Reading

The Sonnets to Orpheus - Rainer Maria Rilke
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

Web Links

Articles and Stories

Beautiful Day

In a rush of rising up from a dark and heavy depth, I return into consciousness and awake. I am in a sparsely furnished apartment.
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