You know what else is great!!??
Doughnuts!
So back by demand, once published in the Colorado Common Sense News publication (April 2014):
I give you this!
Enjoy!
Be still my heart!
There it was sitting there, glistening with a sweet glaze of
maple sugar icing. It appeared warm and
gooey; the apple fritter is perhaps the most perfect doughnut ever. I snatched up one of those little tissues to
grab the last one. It was mine!
Where I come from, doughnuts, politics, and corner coffee
shops filled with retired Veterans and septuagenarian cattle ranchers go
together. Enjoying a doughnut or two or
perhaps three was never a bad thing, it was a celebration. To pull up a chair in a local coffee shop and
order a sweet southern treat was simply an act of true community. After all, this is where everyone catches up
on life over our favorite breakfast treats, doughnuts.
As I enjoyed my selection of a cinnamon coated doughnut
today from the front seat of my Honda, I earned a few stares and glares. An obviously fitness-minded young mother
decked out in her possibly daily ensemble of yoga pants and an expensive
looking fitness type top hurried her daughter past my vehicle as if I was
selling crack wearing my gray hoodie giving furtive glances. It then dawned on me that in Colorado now
it’s more acceptable to smoke pot than eat doughnuts. This attitude has to be the reason Krispy
Kreme in Colorado Springs closed. It’s
scandalous to indulge oneself in a warm, wonderful doughnut!
The doughnut actually has a rich history, pardon the pun, in
the United States but we didn’t invent the doughnut. According to fabulous food blogger, Tori
Avey, editor and curator of The History Kitchen,
the doughnut came to us originally from Ancient Rome and Greece but it was the
Pilgrims and Dutch Settlers who brought
the scrumptious goody to the United States. They didn’t always have a hole in
the middle. It was found that the dough
wouldn’t fry evenly enough to not be doughy and un-cooked in the center while
the outside was perfect. It’s been a
work in progress for hundreds of years.
Other history surrounding the doughnut dates back to the
First World War. Avey mentions in her
blog that in the book Glazed America,
by Paul Mullins, doughnuts would be handed out to the troops. The morale building treat continued into
World War II. The girls who handed them out were called “Doughnut Dollies.” This is probably a book you might want to pick
up if you love Doughnuts and America, and many of us do!
The deep fried dough has roots in Jewish culture too. The treat is enjoyed at Hanukkah and is refered to as sufganiyot or bimuelos. And that machine that mass produces doughnuts was invented by a Jewish refugee named Adolf Levitt. Ahhh, thank you Mr. Levitt for the automated doughnut machine for we are grateful. Think about that the next time you’re watching the warm, glazed doughnuts roll past you at a Krispy Kreme, should you have the chance to find one next time you’re traveling in the south.
So I bring this up because at first I thought it odd that
the doughnut has become a forbidden treat, it’s almost kind of naughty. Well, that’s the feeling I got anyway as
Fitness Frannie , I told you about her
earlier, passed me with a surprised look
on her face. Yes, I’m enjoying a
doughnut! Get over it.
Finally, America loves to name a day for everyone so in case
you’re wondering National Doughnut Day is officially June 3rd. That gives you time to jump on the trails and
exercise yourself silly so you can have one.
Or not! That’s the freedom we
have in America. We have the freedom to
eat doughnuts! Oh you’ll still get the ‘looks’ alright but just look at them
and explain that you’re being patriotic and shame them into putting down that
tofu, egg white gluten free organic breakfast burrito.
~Anne Boswell Taylor, apple fritter lover first, then maple bars, then original glazed, then....whatever is left! ;) #MmmDoughnuts
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