Doughnuts Continue to Sweep the Nation: On Restaurant Menus

The doughnut boom was fast on the tail of cupcakes, but this one seems to have taken an extra step forward: restaurants are increasingly adding them to menus. Not just Thomas Kellers’ Coffee & Doughnuts (A Life Worth Eating has dreamy photos), but in myriad forms and of many origins: beignets, bombolini, and the good ol’ U.S.A. hot, fresh, sometimes decorated doughnut.