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Donuts: An American Passion | 
| Author: John T. Edge
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 648346
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0399153586
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9780399153587
ASIN: 0399153586
Publication Date: May 18, 2006
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Product Description
Acclaimed food writer and cultural historian John T. Edge conjures nostalgia by revealing portions of our history through our most cherished foods. Donuts is the cap on a scrumptious series toting comfort food, belying calorie-counting, and embracing those cornerstone, iconic dishes that have come to define American cuisine and customs over the years.
In Donuts, Edge walks us though the donut's inception as Dutch fare, the Salvation Army's wartime donuts, the invention of the donut machine, the 1950s donut-shop craze, the Krispy Kreme revolution, the appropriation by other ethnicities, and the fanatical chefs that take donuts to a new art form. Nothing encourages our sweet-tooth cravings like the donut. It is honest. It is satisfying. It is a national symbol that has survived the low carb-diet dogma and the death of the local donut shop, and it is making a comeback into the hearts of Americans.
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 don't waste your cash May 23, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
get it from the library. I found a copy on the street. it had a pink cover. I like pink. I love donuts. I love great writing and food-related information. I love learning the history of something through the people who were there...
I was hoping for a cross between ed behr and studs turkel. instead what I got was five recipes (haven't tried them yet) and a lot of bad filler for prose. you don't get the history and facts so much about donuts as you hear about how mr. edge went here and ate that. I started thinking maybe he wrote this book so he could justify a tax deduction on his driving and eating.
edge talks to several donut makers but ends up with very little information about them to write about. it seems no one likes mr. edge enough to open up to him. he seems unable to relate to them. he doesn't really present much by way of new information about donuts in general. when he describes a special donut he is eating, he does so with empty soundbites and not good writing.
maybe, if you are a cop, this could be a good summer beach read. otherwise there is better and more well-written stuff out there.
save your money!
 I Read This Book in Less Than 24 Hours June 30, 2006
Next time I read a John T. Edge book, I'll remember to wear protection. A bib, to avert the Pavlovian swirls that are sure to follow.
Prepare yourself for a sweet thrill-jaunt in his wake as he flavor-plows North America, accompanied by the usual suspects (sugar & cinnamon), and more than a few surprises. I knew I was a fan when I read his line "I would shout down anyone who dared dispute the goodness inherent in oil-singed orbs of fruitcake." If you want to know where to find me, I'll be the guy on all fours propped behind his poor victim's knees to facilitate smooth sailing in his backward trajectory.
You'll read about why it's patriotic and even possibly healthy (this would be in the "history" part of the book) to indulge your donut fixation. Different ethnic takes on fried dough weigh in. Artistry is in full flower, no ingredient is sacred. Everybody gets into the act, and even "uberchef" Thomas Keller gets a mention.
This book gives you everything you could want in a donut book; history, comedy, personality, machinery, and especially, recipes. There are resources that you could use to start a donut business yourself.
Pretty smart kid he's got helping him out, too.
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