Producer Rebecca Sheir has a talent for elevating a simple feature to a rich sound portrait through the use of crisp writing, a wonderful interview subject, and a warm narration delivery. In this story about the owner of a Russian cafe in a tiny Alaskan village, one can almost taste the food that she describes. Ambient sound is used parsimoniously and effectively, and the piece is nicely edited. This is a great "soft" feature that would work well in any magazine program.