"I remember Mr. Bonita used to make doughnuts for everybody," Ms. Archibald-Good told Professor Naison.
And at Dreesen's, they make doughnuts, right before your eyes, in a stainless steel vat called the Donut Robot Mark II.
The goal at Sublime, said Kamal Grant, the pastry chef, is to make doughnuts good enough "for someone's last meal on death row".
As he says, we cannot want to create a society where bakers are compelled to make doughnuts, buns and cakes with any "lawful" message, even if they have a conscientious objection.
Human intrusion on the landscape, which today includes visitors who drive S.U.V.'s in the park's meadows, spinning their wheels to make doughnuts, dates to colonial times, when settlers cleared farms.
The most sophisticated cooking we did was opening a can of pre-made biscuit dough, sticking our thumbs in the center of each raw biscuit to make a hole, and then handing them over to the teacher, who dipped them in hot grease to make doughnuts.
Or how to make doughnuts.... or kangaroo collars.
"We make doughnuts the old fashioned way," Mark began as we all stood on the edge of the kitchen.
Pair it with a solid cup of joe and I'm telling you the kids and I were inspired to go home and make doughnuts!
If I had been disappointed about not being able to help make doughnuts that didn't last long as the kids and I settled at a table and Mark strolled up with a platter of sprinkled cake doughnuts, jellies, apple fritters and my favorite the maple old-fashioned.
