Laurie Constantino dishes up cooking inspiration.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: DINING - Brief article

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Alaska foodies can look to a locally written website for restaurant deals, recipes, tips and inspiration. Laurie Constantino, cookbook author and blogger, also flavors the site with cooking how-tos, product reviews and interviews with other Alaska cooks.

"A primary goal of LaurieConstantino.com is to help build community between Alaska food writers and enthusiasts," she says. "I love interviewing Alaskans involved in the food industry; everyone has an interesting story to tell. Developing and testing recipes, and making them easy to follow, is my passion and the website allows a great platform for sharing recipes."

Constantino traces her love of Mediterranean cooking back 30 years when she met her husband, Steven, a Greek-American, in Bethel where she served as the district attorney. She learned Greek cooking from spending time with her in-laws in Limnos, a rural Greek island. Today, she and her husband split time between Anchorage and their family home in Limnos.

Her book, "Tastes Like Home: Mediterranean Cooking in Alaska," was published in 2007, and Constantino started a...