A while back, I scoffed at Andrew S. Damick’s insistence that my quaint love of Krispy Kreme and their “factory doughnuts” was in error, and that I should get myself to a real bakery and see what I’ve been missing all these years. I remained a skeptic. Bakeries that make doughnuts were something that one finds up in New York, not here in the South. So, I challenged him to find such a bakery that I can drive to in less than 30 minutes.

He eventually suggested that I should try Sweet Traditions, in Cary. I stuck that in my head, and said I would visit, someday.

Months went by.

Until last Sunday when, as luck would have it, Michelle and I happened to be returning from church and taking a shortcut through downtown to get to The Loop for lunch, that we passed Sweet Traditions. It was open. I told her about how Andrew said that this was a real bakery. “Like the ones you had up North,” I said. She, like me, was skeptical.

We went in. My wife said: “Andrew was right. This is just like the one we had in Fredonia.”

We bought an apple fritter, a glazed doughnut, and three hard kimmelweck (!) rolls. Yes. They have fresh kimmelweck. Wow. Everything—including the doughnut—was wonderful. The apple fritter was especially tasty. We took the rolls home and made Western New York-style Beef on Weck for dinner. Yummy.

So. Sweet Traditions definately is, as the young kids are saying these days, “The Bomb Diggity”. Go there now.

(As for Krispy Kreme: I still love you, factory doughnuts and all. Please understand that I have enough love in my heart to love you and Sweet Traditions. Thank you for understanding.)