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November 27, 2020
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 | Doughnuts or Donuts? Most early doughnuts were just strips or balls of dough, but in the mid-19th century a New England ship captain named Hanson Gregory came up with the idea of putting holes in the middle of them. His mother Elizabeth had been in the habit of making doughnuts with lemon rind and warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg that she would liberate from her son's cargo. She would put hazelnuts and walnuts in the center, where the dough was least likely to cook all the way through-making them very literal "dough nuts"-and give them to her son and his crew for their long stretches at sea. Eventually, Hanson one-upped his mother's culinary inventiveness and started punching holes in the center of the doughnuts with the round top of a tin pepper box, creating their now-traditional ring shape for the first time. "Donut" originally began appearing in the late 1800s as a contraction of the longer, traditional spelling, and became more widespread in the 1920s, especially with bakeries-presumably because three extra letters can take up a lot of space on small storefront windows. "Donut" would pick up real steam only a few years after Captain Gregory's confectionary contribution was memorialized, with the founding of Dunkin' Donuts in 1950 by a 34-year-old Boston man named William Rosenberg. Get dunking and check out these titles |
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 | Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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 | Zeyn Joukhadar Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of the novels The Map of Salt and Stars and The Thirty Names of Night and a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI). His work has appeared in Salon, The Paris Review, Shondaland, [PANK], Mizna, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. The Thirty Names of Night is a December 2020 Indie Next Book Pick; The Map of Salt and Stars was a 2018 Middle East Book Award winner in Youth Literature, a 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and others. Joukhadar has received fellowships from the Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Program, the Arab American National Museum, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Camargo Foundation, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Check out his books here. |
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 | Best Books of 2020-According to O, The Oprah Magazine From Zadie Smith's quarantine musings to Raven Leilani's incendiary debut, 20 of the best this year had to offer. Check them out here |
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| Everything flourishes in the nourishment of our appreciation; plants, people, the Earth, moments. When we live with that appreciation, we flourish.-Kristi Nelson
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