2006
First Published
3.79
Average Rating
192
Number of Pages
A new installment of the popular series that includes Hamburgers & Fries and Apple Pie combines cultural history with a selection of recipes, in a volume that traces the doughnut's Dutch origins, its rise in 1950s America, and the contributions of popular doughnut chains.
Avg Rating
3.79
Number of Ratings
57
5 STARS
23%
4 STARS
46%
3 STARS
21%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
John T. Edge
Author · 10 books
John T. Edge writes about the American South. The Penguin Press published his latest book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Publisher‘s Weekly, and a host of others. Now in paperback, Nashville selected the book as a citywide read for 2018. He is also host of the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network and ESPN. Edge is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun and a columnist for the Oxford American. For three years he wrote the monthly “United Taste” column for the New York Times. His magazine and newspaper work has been featured in eleven editions of the Best Food Writing compilation. He has won three James Beard Foundation awards. In 2012, he won Beard’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.
