Welcome. I started blogging about donuts to coincide with the 2016 presidential inauguration. Initially, I explained my obsession with donuts like this: “they’re delicious, it's silly, and in a world so riddled with serious issues, donuts provide comic, tasty relief.” Over the last few years I have come to realize that a love of donuts is universal and can translate and enable dialogue across cultural, political, economic class, and gender lines. I haven’t met a cab or LYFT driver who was not willing to engage in a discussion about donuts—which gradually evolved into other topics. So, with that, I’d like your help. Please share your donut experiences with me (at wendonutopia@gmail.com) and while you’re munching on donuts, use that experience as an opportunity to listen to others' points of view. It works.

Donuts in Jerusalem

Donuts in Jerusalem

Decoding My Donut Ratings

Decoding My Donut Ratings
Practically perfect!
Highly recommended
Pretty good
Keep on walking (inedible)


Friday, March 22, 2019

France - March, 2019


Bayeux - March 11

 Brigitte-Sabine Patisserie 
Address: 55 RUE SAINT PATRICE  14400  BAYEUX
            
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In the quest for donuts, sometimes you need to leave the continental US.  When visiting Normandy and Mt St Michel, my dear friend Yuval Ben-Ami (originally from Israel, now from Provence, France)—made clear that I needed to locate some authentic French beignets. Little did I know that, when located, these would bear no resemblance to the delicious and memorable beignets from Café du Monde in New Orleans. Our wonderful guide, Valerie Coupel, made several stops during our tours of the beaches and D-Day sites to no avail.  Finally, just as we were about to pull up to our hotel and leave for Paris, she pointed us toward Brigittee-Sabine Patisserie in Bayeux.  Ordinarily, we do not include donuts from mere bakeries in our consideration of donuts worldwide.  But, here we made an exception and we were glad we did.






These beignets were gigantic!  And each was chock full of a different type of filling (we purchased hazel nut, chocolate, and raspberry).  I tasted the chocolate.  Quite delicious and the front desk team at the Villa Lara Hotel were pleased to be gifted with several others.  



Ooh la la! Try to taste the beignets in France but be sure you are hungry first.



Paris - March 14

Boneshaker Doughnets 
Address: 77 Rue d'Aboukir, 75002 Paris, France
            
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When in Paris (my choir was performing there), we just had to visit Boneshaker Doughnuts (thank you, Alan Kitey, for the referral). While the donuts were truly beautiful (and the chocolate glazed with meringue on which I nibbled was notable), most notable was the marketing shtick.  Boneshaker’s colors are chic Parisian black and fuschia and their logo is a rather maudlin skeleton clutching a fuschia doughnut.  Best of all is their tagline (proudly displayed on the back of the T-shirt I purchased):


Not your typical French patisserie.  No macarons or eclairs in sight—but Boneshaker Doughnuts (on the outskirts of the Marais) is worth a visit. 







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