We were just in beautiful Portland, Oregon this week to meet up with Zachary Shahan, another editor in the Important Media network. After walking around sunny downtown, admiring the city’s progressive urban planning, and pouring over books at Powell’s, we visited a local bakery, Voodoo Doughnut. Becky Striepe, the editor over at eatdrinkbetter.com, had suggested the place, effusing that the vegan donuts totally blew her mind.
I have never seen so many vegan doughnuts in one place. They had your standard glazed, powdered, sprinkles, fritters and chocolate coconut cake, to some more experimental concoctions, such as the raspberry-filled chocolate Voodoo doll, complete with a pretzel stake already impaled into its liquid heart. (There were also some decidedly non-vegan baked options for sale, like the bacon maple bar.)
We settled for a random vegan dozen, chosen by our friendly doughnut slinger. We walked a few blocks to one of the city’s many parks and sampled the selection. They were all quite delicious, although after three doughnuts I was sporadically twitching from all the excess sugar.
Zachary and Marika indulging in some baked vegan goodness in a local park.
If you ever find yourself craving a yummy vegan snack while you are in Portland, I recommend that you visit Voodoo Doughnut for a tremendous variety of locally baked sweetness. You should, however, be prepared to wait in line. We stopped by on a Monday afternoon, and the line stretched all the way down the block; but the wait was definitely worth it.
