Go nuts for doughnuts
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Do not touch your face. Do not gather in groups of 10. Do not hug your mother.
In this year of "do nots," many are finding a reprieve in doughnuts.
Artisanal doughnut shops are popping up everywhere. As such places tend to do, they are getting huge on social media, attracting around-the-corner (socially distanced) lines, and becoming prestige purchases as urban professionals with money to burn and carbs to spare go nuts for doughnuts.
Washington, D.C., alone has five prestige gourmet doughnut shops, which inspired a 2,500-word essay from the food blog
Eater D.C. Eater Editor and eater/editor Gabe Hiatt did the shoe-leather reporting himself, tasting the fares of Donut Run, Toscana Market, Rose Ave Bakery, La Bodega, and a bagel shop called Call Your Mother.