Dear Pearl,

The Highbottoms are completely appalled, but I am frankly excited by the new habit in the neighborhood of selling all sorts of comestibles from carts.  Fanny and Louise took to the streets with blackstrap molasses pulled toffee. Doris Dingle and her niece Sheila made popcorn balls wrapped in red cellophane.  But Beatrice and her grandmother Terese started a new trend here with their amazing homemade doughnuts!  Everyone wants them.  Terese says she is using an old recipe from her family that goes back to Tudor England - possibly as far back as Henry the VIII who binged on them in front of his unhappy wives and died fat.  Oh Pearl, isn't it getting close to the annual bake-off at the Lucky Shamrock Golf Club?  What category feels lucky to you this year?  Edible White Things was such a success for you with those Marshmallow Bat Puffs in the aughts.  Could anything top that?

I Remain as Always, Your Devoted Miss Blue