Well, it seems that someone owes me a virtual orange mocha cappuccino and someone else owes me some delicious breakfast pastry.  My little buddy Freckles hooked me up and dropped Monica Webb, making her first redraw, guaranteeing her a spot on the tour next year and most importantly, making my prediction of another underwhelming performance

... 50 pounds of bruschetta and five very tired friends? The Puff Pastries and the Stale Cruller! Elbow deep in food while catering a large function in our Base Lodge, Ascutney Mountain ... Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. The Puff Pastries chose the 10K wooded walk while the Stale Cruller went his own way and rode the 50K. Together, the team raised more than $1,000 and pledged to double their efforts ...

Frost Doughnuts is a new doughnut place north of Seattle (Mill Creek). In the picture is a cinnamon-sugar cruller, a pecan, caramelly cake doughnut, and a pumpkin spice. So, so, so very good. Luckily their only shop is a long drive from me. Clam sauce: this comes from my friend who will hopefully start her own blog, but until then I need to store this recipe somewhere. I couldn't find a ...

... , Long Island, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay.There are coffee/doughnut wars brewing in New York state: Tim Hortons and Dunkin' Donuts are both fighting for cruller consumers in Madison Square Garden and HSBC Arena.Searching for a geographical explanation for this one: Coca-Cola appears to have re-branded its calorie-free version, now marketing it nationally as ...

... 1929 issue of The New Yorker, here's a wonderful poem called "Recommendation" by Parke Cummings. Shots of Mr. Hoover trouting, Shots of weasels on an outing, Speech by Czar of cruller-bakers, Tricks employed by corset-makers, Sounds of Bossy Gillis talking, Sounds of albatrosses squawking, Butterfly weighs sixty ounces, Men in Denver take to flounces, Crooning chants by Rudy Vallée ...

... in Mandarin Chinese as 油條 (yóutiáo), but which in Taiwanese goes by the name 油炸粿, is basically a fried stick of dough, similar to a cruller, but puffier rather than cakey. The traditional way of eating it is to wrap it inside a 燒餅 (a sesame-coated flatbread), and dip the entire combination into a bowl of hot soy milk. I prefer salty ...