after six days of cycling through verdant countryside and subject to the daily, hourly vagaries of the weather, there was catching up of all kinds to do once i got home. chief among those was the need to eat when and what i wanted. so as someone who (despite my sleek tanned appearance) has consumed his fair share of what is nominally “junk” food . . . . i’d like to spend a little time focussing here on one of my favourite forms of junk food - the donut.
to my credit, the taste for junk food has diminished considerably over the past few years but i still get the occasional hankering for something that as food goes has little bearing on my real or imagined needs and absolutely no bearing on my ambition to be healthy and to maintain that state.
the
donut or doughnut was likely introduced into north america by dutch settlers who brought with them something called an olykoek or “oily cake”. sounds appetizing doesn’t it! believe it or not, the first confirmed sighting of the word doughnut is attributed to the use of the word by american author
washington irving perhaps best known for his two stories “the legend of sleepy hollow” (which you can read online
right here) and if you’re in the mood for a short (4 1/2 minutes) movie dating right back to the late 1890’s then you should watch this silent version of “rip van winkle”.
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