Captain Hanson Gregory created the donut as a teen while trying to feed a crew of sailors — and changed American culinary culture forever.CreditCaptain Hanson Crockett Gregory for that. The then-future high-seas hero, in a moment of deliciously divine inspiration as a teenage galley boy, turned a poorly cooked blob of sailors’ sustenance into the iconic, ring-shaped and deep-fried delicacy we know and love today.
It reads simply:"Capt. Hanson Gregory. Recognized by the National Bakers Ass’n as the inventor of the doughnut."Donut lovers celebrate National Donut Day on the first Friday of June — June 3, 2022, this year — in honor of the Salvation Army members who fed the deep-fried rings of fried dough to American soldiers in Europe duringThe culinary world should celebrate another milestone later this month as well. The donut turns 175 years old on June 22.
grew to become America's first celebrity writer chronicling the life of Dutch settlers in the Hudson River Valley. He's believed to be the first to use the phrase"dough-nuts" to describe the Dutch treat in his 1809 treatise,"A History of New York."It was"just a big blob of dough," Miller told Fox News Digital."The center would remain greasy and partially cooked."Gregory, just 15 at the time, was struck by an idea to lighten the sinker.
The proximity of the original donut maker's burial place, and the birth of the nation's largest and most famous donut chain, appears to be nothing more than a quirky coincidence. Scott Logan is charged with the care of Gregory's grave as the head of the City of Quincy's cemeteries department.
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