{"id":33678,"date":"2018-07-11T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T02:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33678"},"modified":"2018-07-11T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T02:55:17","slug":"review-of-the-hole-story-of-the-doughnut-by-pat-miller-illustrated-by-vincent-x-kirsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33678","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Hole Story of the Doughnut, by Pat Miller, illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Hole Story of the Doughnut<\/em><\/p>\n

by Pat Miller
\nillustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch<\/p>\n

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 36 pages.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine a time before doughnuts? I didn\u2019t realize that the world knows who invented them \u2013 a ship\u2019s captain named Hanson Crockett Gregory.<\/p>\n

But before he was a ship\u2019s captain, he was a sixteen-year-old helping the ship\u2019s cook. They\u2019d fry cakes in lard for the crew\u2019s breakfast \u2013 and the cakes were always raw in the middle and heavy with grease. The sailors called them \u201cSinkers,\u201d because they sat so heavily in the stomach.<\/p>\n

Hanson got an idea to help them cook better \u2013 and cut holes in the center of each circle of dough with a pepper shaker. Now they cooked perfectly, all the way through.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s about how simple the story is, but the author and illustrator do embellish the tale. They tell about the rest of Captain Gregory\u2019s life and some alternate legends that developed.<\/p>\n

There are notes at the back giving more details, enough to convince me that it\u2019s true \u2013 We should be thanking Captain Hanson Gregory every time we eat a delicious, well-cooked doughnut.<\/p>\n

This light-hearted picture book is especially suited to interest kids. They\u2019ll get a taste of very practical biography.<\/p>\n

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\nvincentxkirsch.com<\/a>
\nhmhco.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

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