We're in that strange part of the year where you can smell fall but it's still summer. There are a couple impatient trees going red. The Halloween decorations are going on sale at the grocery stores.
Somebody you know is recommending a horror film you've never heard of. Quad-City Times Reporter Gannon Hanevold But I'm still holding onto hope, because it felt like summer this weekend in downtown Davenport and Rock Island, as Alternating Currents shows ripped through the city streets. The weather was humid, so I dressed in shorts and ordered nice cold beverages across town.
I'm still clinging onto this last gasp of summer, and one thing that's great about a Midwestern summer: the food trucks. I dined at plenty of sit-down spots for Alternating Currents weekend, many of which I've written about in this column before: Great River, Stompbox, Me & Billy. But the best thing I ate this week was a dessert, from local food truck MozBites.
MozBites was set up on Saturday just outside of Kaiserslautern Square, where Natasha Blaine performed in mid-afternoon. I'd just eaten a late lunch, so I didn't have the stomach space for another savory dish, like one of MozBites' samosas. But I always have an interest in sweets, so I went for a dozen mini donuts to share with my girlfriend.
And then I went for a dozen more. The first order I tried out was a time-tested classic: cinnamon sugar mini-donuts. My mom used to make donuts like these growing up, so it was a little slice of home, too.
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