Rising to the Occasion

The best donut I ever had was from a Mom and Pop shop in Natchez, Mississippi. Don’t go there. They closed shortly after I moved out of that town. You can draw whatever correlation you wish with the timing of my departure and their closing. There were other donut shops in town, but as one of the custodians said, “The others are too doughy.”

It was a regular occurrence for me to pop into the recreation center of First Baptist Church with a dozen of the glazed delicacies.… Read more