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Donuts And A Show
After months of hearing praises for Peter Pan Donut, I finally made it to the venerable Brooklyn doughnut shop with my friend Kristin yesterday. Turns out, it was the first time for many others too - those who’d just read about doughnuts in a particularly popular New York Times article last week.
Beside Kristin and me sat a couple who insisted on grilling the server: Did you see you guys were just in the Times? (Nope.) How could you not have seen it? It was one of the most emailed articles this week. Did you see the picture slideshow? Have you seen an uptick in business in the last few days…?
“I’ve seen an uptick in business in the past five years,“ replied our semi-amused server who later told us his parents have owned the place for nearly two decades.
The scene unfolded while I went to work on my cream-filled yeast doughnut and asked for four more to go. Five doughnuts, five dollars. Kristin had a black coffee with her “old-fashioned” cake doughnut. Two dollars for a sweet snack and hot beverage. That’s less than a subway ride in New York!
As the couple got up to leave, the man flippantly apologized for leaving a mess of crumbs. I looked up to see scattered chunks of doughnut on the counter looking like dirt flung from the earth. Maybe they wouldn’t have missed all the good parts had they eaten with their mouths closed.
Read A Flowering of the Doughnut Arts in the New York Times.
Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop, 727 Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint, Brooklyn (718) 389-3676
“Who is following you isn’t that important,” [David Karp, Tumblr’s 24-year-old founder and chief executive] said. “It’s not about getting to the 10,000-follower count. It’s less about broadcasting to an audience and more about communicating with a community.”
On Thanksgiving day, I made a frozen maple mousse pie with chocolate-maple sauce from a New York Times recipe. I heard that my hosts were preparing two pies for our party of four, but I was determined to make my own anyway.
Knowing there would be a glut of food, I didn’t bring my pie to dinner. So there’s a 9-inch pie sitting in my freezer. Serves 10.
