Planked Salmon with Juniper Rub and Berry Glaze

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

True or false? Planking (grilling on cedar or alder planks) originated in the Pacific Northwest. For extra points, name the decade: the fifties? or the nineties? The answers aren’t quite as obvious as you may think. It’s true that the Indians of the Pacific Northwest traditionally cooked whole salmon (split open through the belly) on cedar stakes in front of a roaring fire (they did this back when Lewis and Clark visited and they still do). But planking is equally well documented on the Eas