When baker Julie Richardson was growing up in Vermont, Autumn Saturdays had a particular rhythm. First, soccer practice. And then, to the apple orchard for some cider and donuts. "I would sit there ...

Tiffany Jaynes Black asked me this silly question while guiding dozens of miniature doughnuts through an automatic doughnut-making machine. The Rube Goldberg-like contraption can make up to 1,200 ...

Homer Simpson may have become famous for his love of donuts, but he’s not alone. Each year in the US alone donut shops produce 10 billion donuts. This translates into 31 donuts for every person in the ...

At the National Museum of American History one day last July, an upright piano stood on a stage. Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about five feet high. The Ring King Jr., ...