"Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop in Anchorage, Alaska, is a place 'for us.' Housed in a nothing-special building in a residential part of Anchorage with lousy parking and a checkered past, the bakery wasn’t opened with the intention to serve the legion of tourists who flock to Anchorage every summer to take selfies against the backdrop of Mount Susitna. Fire Island was established by lifelong Alaskans Janis Fleischman and Jerry Lewanski, a retired school assistant principal and her husband who hired their daughter and son-in-law as their first bakers. This place was built for actual Alaskans, the kind who know that June is a prize won only by wresting victory over February, a month so dark and relentless that its pain could only be salved by a raspberry scone the size of a rugby ball." - ByGenevieve Roth