The Distracted Wanderer

Much of my distracted wanderings take me in search of places of a historic nature - sites of former battles, covered bridges, lighthouses that have guided ships in from sea for years, houses where famous people once lived ... that sort of thing - but there's nothing in my own guidebook that says I can't go to places of more recent historic undertakings and that's exactly what I did this past Saturday when I traveled to East Haven to visit Sugar Bakery & Sweet Shop . What makes this modest-looking storefront on Main Street historic isn't that it's been in business for hundreds of years or that it's located in a old building that once housed some other historic business or that it has provided baked goods for historic figures with a sweet tooth.  Oh no, what makes this modest-looking storefront historic is that it's the home of the 2010 Food Network Cupcake Wars winners - a feat that has no doubt gone down in the historic annals of East Haven, a town th...