In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything | Eater

"A historic small hotel built directly atop the gravel airstrip that functions as both lodging for seasonal visitors and an informal community hub for locals. The lodge has long provided essential services—like a pay phone used when households lacked landlines—and its staff have included long-term residents who double as cooks and civic leaders. Because most travel to the region is by small Cessna flights, the property is often the first point of contact for people arriving or departing for backcountry trips, and it plays an outsized social role in a remote, fly-in town where potlucks, package days, and shared food resources knit residents together." - Bree Kessler