Welcome to the new and improved Blognut, featuring new logos, new looks, big-ass Donut pics and even maps. I’d like to thank Steve for all his hard work and painstakingly boxing up all the Donuts over at the Blogger site and restocking the shelves here at theblognut.net. Nicely Done Steve. So update your links, or your favorites, or whatever, presuming you still want to be associated with Blognut, and feel free to drop me some feedback on the new site (theblognut@gmail.com). Enjoy!

And in other Doughnut news - New York Magazine’s Best of NY 2007 was just released naming Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Pies-n-Thighs as the best Doughnut dealer in the city. While Blognut has yet to visit Pies, I’ve been meaning to try their “Texas Grapefruit-sized” nutmeg-spiked cake Doughnuts for quite some time. Hopefully I’ll get to it soon. The only qualm I have with NYMs review is their declaration that cake Doughnuts are somehow more authentically American than yeast-raised. And while I’ll give you that many old-fashioned American Doughnuts, particularly in the NYC region and those fried by the Salvation Army Donut Lassies in WWI are composed of cake dough, let’s not forget that yeast-raised Donuts had been circulating in the US since the 1800s as direct descendents of their Italian, Dutch and Eastern European ancestors. Plus I would argue that the emergence and popularity of Yeast-raised corporations like DD and KK in the 50’s and 60’s - both of whose flagship Donuts are levened - won back America’s stomach from their short stint in cake-Donut appreciation. Really I’m just trying to justify my own preference for raised Donuts here since the NYMag article made me feel un-American.

Lastly, Blognut will be in Austin, Texas over the weekend for a good friend’s hitching and hopefully will get a chance to sneak off to Round Rock. Wish me luck.
-b

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