Trail Mix: No need for five-course meal in Ruby when there’s $5 bear soup for sale

Zachariah Hughes filled up on black bear soup in Ruby during the Iditarod sled dog race. (Photo by Zach Hughes, KSKA)Trail Mix is Alaska Public Media’s reporters’ inside look at covering the 2016 Iditarod
Near the first Iditarod checkpoint on the Yukon River, the Ruby Bible Church was selling a soup and sandwich lunch special for $5. When I arrived, there were three options to pick from, and I went with the “Seven Bean and Black Bear” offering.The bear was tender but a bi