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- noun A common food in western
Alaska , consisting ofwhipped fat mixed withberries and sometimesfish andsugar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Berries are baked into pies, preserved for long winters and, in Native villages, mixed with animal fat or fish oil to create a sweet delicacy called akutaq.
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Alaskans apparently scream for akutaq, an ice cream-like confection made from reindeer fat, seal oil and salmonberries.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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It's not just the Native masks on the wall, the salmon strips on the table or the bowl of akutaq (Eskimo ice cream) in the fridge, it's also the seal-skin ball dangling by rope from the cathedral ceiling in the middle of her living room.
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It's not just the Native masks on the wall, the salmon strips on the table or the bowl of akutaq (Eskimo ice cream) in the fridge, it's also the seal-skin ball dangling by rope from the cathedral ceiling in the middle of her living room.
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It's not just the Native masks on the wall, the salmon strips on the table or the bowl of akutaq (Eskimo ice cream) in the fridge, it's also the seal-skin ball dangling by rope from the cathedral ceiling in the middle of her living room.
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