Best doughnuts: Amish festival doughnuts
After the Cupcake Truck’s visit, I decided to highlight some of my other favorite treats in and around the city. Today, doughnuts!
I don’t know how they do it, but if something is Amish (actually, Pennsylvania Dutch; no one at the market is actually Amish), it’s twice as delicious as any other variant of the same product. Electricity must be leeching the goodness out of our foodstuffs. If you don’t believe me, try their lemonade. Or their produce. Or their apple butter. Or their peanut butter. The list just goes on from there. And then, but twice a year, they grace us with their all-time most delicious item: fresh fried doughnuts.
You can get doughnuts all year round at Reading Terminal Market. But for 4 brief days a year (3 days during the annual Pennsylvania Dutch Festival, plus the 1 day Harvest Festival in the fall), you can experience doughnuts as they are truly meant to be eaten — straight out of the fryer.
They’re 85 cents each, and the ones to go for are the glazed doughnuts. For just a few cents more than your Wawa or Dunkin’ Donuts doughnut, you could be eating a warm, fresh doughnut right now. So hurry over to Reading Terminal Market right away!
2009 Pennsylvania Dutch Festival @ Reading Terminal Market
August 6-9, 2009, 8 AM to 5 PM
12th and Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
