January 2011
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Wishful Thinking
Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but we’re optimistically dreaming of sunshine, pining after spring shades. And that’s when it hit us that the shades at the Tracy Reese spring runway show are not so unlike… doughnuts.
Photos from Tracy Reese on Style.com
Perfectly round, with icing, sugar-coated, chocolate or glazed, fruit or cream filled, call us crazy but we’re...
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Pirate Treasure Vaults and Doughnuts
With the revelation last week that the doughnut was actually shaped by a 19th century sea-faring captain, and perhaps the fact that your author happens to be reading Treasure Island, it’s easy to make the leap from doughnuts to pirates. And of course, it’s difficult to think of pirates without thinking of buried pirate treasures. And then of course there are similarities between treasure chests...
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Captain Hanson and the Birth of the Doughnut
The birth of the original doughnut has a nebulous history; its raison d’etre, unknown. It seems fairly well agreed upon, however; that the Dutch brought the doughnut to America. Doughnuts started out as olykoek, round, fried cakes with a nut in the center.
American writer, Washington Irving, in his 1809 publication, History of New York described doughnuts as “balls of sweetened dough,...
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Devil's Food Chocolate Cake Doughnuts, Anyone?
In the fryer
On the doughnut front, the mysterious doughnut chef, Francois, worked diligently on a devil’s food chocolate cake doughnut recipe last night. These decadent, cake doughnuts plumped and bulged into delicious little rounds in oil. But like a naughty child, the chocolate doughnuts simply kept going and going, swelling to such an extent that the hole in the center was completely...
The Doughnut Vault Is Coming, Chicago
A mouth-watering take on the classic doughnut is just around the corner. Stay tuned for fresh, warm doughnuts, hand-made by tireless doughnut chef, “Francois”. These are Pillowy, lighter than air doughnuts that are B-I-G. You can sink your teeth into these bad-boys; the gooey goodness isn’t for the dainty.
As those of us who have tasted the d-nuts from the Doughnut Vault can...