The Zuccharinos ($3.75) at Locanda Verde lie at the perfect intersection of doughnut and a soft sugar cake. Baked, not fried, it does not intend to mimic a doughnut, yet it delivers all the flavor and nuances of one....
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[Photos: Kathy Chan] In the summer of 2008, we brought your our Guide to the Best Doughnuts in NYC. For that, we trekked up and down the city, eating doughnuts in every bakery and doughnut shop we could find—an...
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A rule of thumb: if doughnuts are on a restaurant menu, order them. Doughnuts from bakeries and shops can be hit-or-miss. Countless factors, the most obvious being when they were fried, can make a good doughnut bad, and a...
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Photograph from newyorkshitty.com An ice cream sandwich made with doughnut halves instead of cookies. Why didn't I think of that? Why haven't I ever eaten one before? Why aren't I eating one right now? Heather of newyorkshitty.com reviewed this...
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A friend visiting from out of town rang me up last week. "I'm going to the Doughnut Plant tomorrow morning," she told me, "but I'm kind of overwhelmed by the options. What's the best doughnut they have?" It was...
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At Al Di La, a plate of warm ricotta fritters made its way to our table around midnight, the end of a very eventful night of non-stop eating with Robyn and Ray. I thought I was too full, really...
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Photographs by Michele Humes I have never wanted to eat a sculpture this bad. Peter Anton assembles out-of-scale versions of sweets like this box of a dozen doughnuts (selling for $32,00) that should be on the table of the...
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The winning Migliorelli Farm doughnut I was in line at the bank this morning when a doughnut craving hit. Does that ever happen to you? To be more specific, a cider doughnut craving. The only place that I know...
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Today is Fat Thursday, not to be confused with Fat Tuesday, which doesn’t take place until next week. The Polish pre-Lenten tradition is also known as tłusty czwartek. Perhaps the Poles like to get their gorging started early because...
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There's nothing too complicated about the heart-shaped Krispy Kreme doughnuts, available now until February 14. They taste like doughnut holes, but are slightly bigger, and have nothing inside (no creme or jelly, sadly). The anatomy: white icing (sugar), Valentine's...
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