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The Kobuk An Anchorage Original

If Anchorage had a time with practical necessities for we mention—donuts.
machine you could walk into, survival. Today, they’re stocked The City Runs on Kobuk
it would look a lot like The with something arguably just Donuts
Kobuk—except with fantastic as essential: gifts, tea, sugar, And not just any donuts. The
collectables, and donuts that and joy. Kobuk is famous across Alaska
might actually ruin all other The Kobuk is owned and and well beyond for its old-
donuts for you forever. run by siblings Michael, Nina, fashioned donuts, made with
The building itself dates and Deborah Bonito, who unadulterated ingredients your
back to 1915, when it served have stewarded the space grandma had in her cupboard
as a mercantile shop into one of Anchorage’s and finished with glazes that
supplying miners, trappers, most beloved institutions. feel distinctly Alaskan, such
and frontiersmen heading What was once a lifeline for as birch syrup and fireweed.
north with more ambition than frontier survival has become These are donuts to write
common sense. Back then, a vibrant hub for Alaska-made home about. They’re that
the shelves were stocked creativity, comfort, and—did perfect old-fashioned crisp on

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