After two years, and against the odds, a downtown Anchorage restaurant returns to life
Orso almost shuttered for good during the pandemic, but an employee’s gamble saved it.
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Her husband was dying of COVID. A world of Twitter friends in Anchorage reached out to comfort her.
The other side of the isolation of the last two years is the collection of people we’ve hung onto. Wendi Gratrix hung on to her Twitter friends. And they hung onto her, too.
For ADN: Sometimes I feel like I don’t know Anchorage anymore. Then I take a walk.
There was a secret I had been carrying since I had COVID-19 in January.
Cooking segment: White fish with Moroccan oil and couscous with Maya Wilson
Maya and I made white fish with Moroccan oil and couscous for a special event for Milk Street. Take a look. (Recipe inside)
For NYT Opinion: Our Normalness Made Me Drunk. Maybe It Made Me Stupid.
Here is an essay I wrote on the human impulses that kept us from protecting ourselves during the pandemic.
For NYT: How Covid-19 Is Threatening Alaska’s Wild Salmon Fishing Season
During the first summer of the pandemic I wrote about a Brooklyn winemaker as he traveled to Bristol Bay for a fishing season like no other.
Learn more about “The Whale and the Cupcake”
“The Whale and the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing and Community in Alaska,” came out in December 2019.
