The quality of the food is almost always the most crucial factor in dining out. Except, I recently realized, at a food truck fair.
June sun beamed upon Koots’ signature windmill and a distinct fried food smell elevated folks’ arrival to the Spenard Food Truck Carnival, where 12 brightly-painted trucks prepared to serve their specialties to joyous Alaskans.
Good food was still important — we were all there to eat. But over the course of a lunch hour spent swapping bites with shared picnic table strangers and enjoying a meal outdoors amid a stretch of perfect Anchorage weather, the actual quality of the food felt secondary…