NEIGHBORS: After years of pandemic disruption, Alaskans are setting more places at the Thanksgiving table
Over the last year, life in the city has inched back to normal for many people who had their usual routines hijacked by the pandemic.
All kinds of Thanksgiving recipes for inspiration
For your inspiration and consideration, we got epic Jell-o salad, the best rolls, a great salad and SO MANY PIES.
Move over pumpkin, this vibrant ube pie pleases a crowd
If you like pumpkin or sweet potato pie, this pie is for you.
I’m making eggnog pie and eating a piece after the kids go to sleep
Just take a minute for your damn self with this eggnog pie. And, don’t say anything unless someone asks. (They never ask!)
Make friends with everything-spice pretzel knots and smoked salmon schmear
This town a bagel desert. Might I suggest a soft, bagel-adjacent everything-spice pretzel knot?
NEIGHBORS: The pandemic years changed shopping in Anchorage. Maybe forever.
As the holiday season approaches, the experience of shopping and what’s available to buy has changed in major ways over the pandemic years. Economists project it’s unlikely to recover soon.
For the NYT: What a freezer means in Rural Alaska
For New York Times Food a story about the vital role chest freezers play in the economics and culture of Alaska Native villages, and how they are being threatened as increasingly violent storms take out the electricity.
NEIGHBORS: Where have the workers gone?
I got curious about why there are still long drive-thru lines, long waits at restaurants and so many help-wanted signs in Anchorage.
Make these smoky salmon cakes to dunk Beau Schooler’s magic ranchovy sauce
Beau Schooler’s fish cake recipe that uses a combination of salmon trim or freezer fish and smoked fish. Plus his famous ‘ranchovy’ sauce
NEIGHBORS: Who helped you through?
In this story, I wrote about how micro-communities we formed during the pandemic have blossomed into deep friendships.