"Federal Donuts, which sells wacky-flavored handmade doughnuts, coffee, and Korean-style twice-fried chicken, is just one example of how chefs in the City of Brotherly Love are pursuing their culinary obsessions. The original Center City shop has been joined bybranches around town (including one at the baseball stadium) as well as a satellite shop in Miami: Theowners' whimsicalimpulse to pick upa doughnut machine on Craigslist in 2011 now seems less crazy and more like the firststeps of delicious empire-building."