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| Donuts: An American Passion | 
 enlarge | Author: John T. Edge
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Category: Book
List Price: $28.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 7350246
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0786287748
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8653
EAN: 9780786287741
ASIN: 0786287748
Publication Date: August 9, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 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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