Rejected episode title: “Get Your Nuts Hot, Fresh, and Cream-filled: All About Doughnuts”
We’d like to argue that the doughnut is possibly one of nature’s most perfect foods. But behind that sprinkled and glazed exterior is a past filled with nostalgia, innovation, and controversy. In this episode, Julia and Nicole learn how the simple doughnut faced satirical novelists, industrial revolution, the Great Depression, and two World Wars to get to a Krispy Kreme near you. We’ll also meet the Doughnut Lassies, an old sailor from Maine, and the marvelous “Christy Creams.”
Our theme song is “Red Onions” by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul
We’re on Twitter at @girlslunch and on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole is on Twitter @nicoleh262 and her website is nicolehylton.com. Julia is smarter than all of us and not on social media.
Sources:
“Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut” by Paul R. Mullins
“The Superior Doughnut” by “Grandma” in a letter to The New York Times, December 15, 1913
“How Dunkin Donuts Changed the Dictionary” by Kate Taylor
“A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty” by Diedrich Knickerbocker (aka. Washington Irving)
“The Women Who Fried Donuts and Dodged Bombs on the Front Lines of WWI: Even if they had to use shell casings as rolling pins, the donuts still got made” by Lorraine Boissoneault
“The History of the Donut” by David A. Taylor
