Guest city notebook: A hidden farmers market
In Mountain View, a peek at hidden farmers market with Kirsten Swann
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21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #15, Slurp! Six of the city’s best steamy soup bowls
A giant, steaming bowl of noodle soup, preferably spicy enough to make you sweat, is the food of winter. Here are six of my favorites.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #11, family photo opportunities like this one
Where else, my friends, do you have the chance to forgo the mall Santa and get your holiday photo taken with a massive stuffed moose?
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #10, remember you have neighbors
When it’s dark out in particular, it’s so easy to get into your own little, mostly interior world. Some years I forget I have neighbors until spring.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #9, in praise of going for a walk when it’s light
Here’s a simple, free way to feel better when dark December has got you down: GO OUTSIDE WHEN IT’S LIGHT.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #8, Wintertime Brews
Come my friends, come with me to coffee-nerd forest and let us nerd out together over special brews, exotic brewing methods and beans from faraway continents.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #7, a rink near you + the moon
Within a short walk from my house, there are four places to skate outside. Some of the rinks are lighted, but my favorites are the ones that let you skate in dark, hopefully by moonlight.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #6, not turkey
It isn’t easy to get your hands on a suckling pig, but they work nicely on a holiday table as a surprising and delicious alternative to the usual turkey or grocery-store ham
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #5, A Drive-in Movie
A drive-in movie in the Loussac parking lot + a light show from atop a Midtown office building. I don’t know, might be kind of awesome?