Few things are as deeply coded into American breakfast traditions as the doughnut. Homer Simpson gobbles them, policemen stereotypically hover around them, and local artist Jeff Nebeker memorializes them in ceramic.
We scoured the area’s most famous, most popular and most unusual doughnut shops to get a sense of what makes Sacramento’s doughnut scene so special. We then served them forth to the staff in the Bee newsroom in blind tastings and asked for their feedback.
To spare their A1C levels, we did this in three rounds…