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    "chicago",
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   "blurb": "A Polish-American bakery selling pączki — rich filled donuts, powidła or rose-petal jam inside, powdered or glazed — beside rye bread and coffee cake. One day a year it is the only thing anyone is there for.",
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    "Chinese grocery counter"
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    "mississippi-delta",
    "chinese-american",
    "the-south"
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    "dough": "cake",
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   "blurb": "A small family grocery in the Mississippi or Arkansas Delta with a hot counter — and, in some of them, donuts fried in the morning beside the rest of the cooking.",
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    "Hawaiian donut shop"
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    "hawaii"
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   "blurb": "A bakery counter in Hawaii selling malasadas — no hole, no filling by default, rolled in sugar — by the dozen in a box or hot by the piece in a bag.",
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   "blurb": "An open-air or walk-up counter selling square fried dough under powdered sugar, three to an order, with coffee cut with chicory beside it.",
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    "farm stand donuts"
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    "upstate-ny"
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    "donuts and breakfast burritos"
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    "southwest"
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   "blurb": "A donut shop in New Mexico, Arizona or west Texas that also wraps breakfast burritos to order: scrambled egg, potato, cheese and chile in a flour tortilla, sold at the same window as the glazed.",
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    "concept donut shop",
    "the topping arms race"
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    "pacific-northwest",
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    "dough": "yeast",
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    "bodega donut",
    "deli donut",
    "Greek coffee shop donut"
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    "greek-american"
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   "blurb": "Donuts sold from a deli, bodega or coffee shop rather than a donut shop: a tray by the register, a grill behind the counter, and a bacon egg and cheese on a kaiser roll doing most of the business.",
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   "id": "pennsylvania-fastnacht",
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   "name": "Fastnacht Day in the Dutch counties",
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    "Pennsylvania Dutch fastnacht",
    "Fasnacht Day"
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    "pennsylvania-dutch"
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    "state": "PA",
    "dough": "potato",
    "counter": "donuts-only"
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   "state": "PA",
   "blurb": "One pastry, one day. Potato-dough donuts, square or diamond cut, fried for Shrove Tuesday and eaten with butter or golden syrup, sold by bakeries, churches, fire halls and — in eastern Pennsylvania — most chain…",
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   "id": "socal-pink-box",
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    "the pink box shop",
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    "Cambodian-American donut shop"
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    "socal",
    "cambodian-american",
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    "state": "CA",
    "dough": "both",
    "counter": "egg-rolls"
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   "state": "CA",
   "blurb": "An independent counter, usually in a strip mall, usually open before five in the morning, frying both doughs in one small kitchen and selling them out of a matte pink box.",
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    "the Southern glazed"
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    "the-south",
    "us"
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    "state": "NC",
    "dough": "yeast",
    "counter": "donuts-only"
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   "blurb": "A glazed raised ring handed over hot, minutes out of the fryer, with the glaze still moving. Built around a window you can watch the line through, and a lit sign that says the fryer is running.",
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   "name": "The Texas kolache counter",
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    "kolache shop",
    "donut and kolache"
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    "texas",
    "houston"
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    "state": "TX",
    "dough": "both",
    "counter": "kolaches"
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   "state": "TX",
   "blurb": "A donut counter that also sells kolaches — and, in Texas, mostly klobasniky: sausage, ham, egg, cheese or jalapeño wrapped in sweet kolache dough.",
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   "name": "The mix-and-sign shop",
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    "Daylight shop",
    "franchise-flour independent"
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    "us",
    "texas",
    "the-south"
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    "dough": "both",
    "counter": "kolaches"
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   "blurb": "An independently owned shop trading under a shared name and buying its dry mix from one supplier. It looks like a chain from the road and is not one at the till.",
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   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "style/tulsa-mix-shop/"
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   "id": "apple-fritter",
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   "name": "Apple fritter",
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    "fritter"
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    "us"
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    "dough": "yeast",
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   "blurb": "Chopped apple and cinnamon folded through raised dough, torn rather than cut, fried craggy and glazed all over so the sugar catches in every fold. No two come out the same shape.",
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   "type": "donut",
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    "custard-filled",
    "cream-filled",
    "Boston cream (when chocolate-topped)"
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    "us"
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    "dough": "yeast",
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    "sacramento",
    "us"
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    "dough": "yeast",
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   "blurb": "A sweet yeast dough — bread dough carrying more shortening than usual — filled with almond paste and sometimes raisins, shaped in a semicircle with slices cut along the curved edge so the sections separate as it proofs…",
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    "French-style beignet",
    "New Orleans beignet"
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    "dough": "choux",
    "finish": "powdered",
    "state": "LA"
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   "blurb": "A deep-fried pastry of French origin, in New Orleans a square of dough fried until it puffs hollow and buried in confectioner's sugar. Beignet means bump.",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "id": "bismarck",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Bismarck",
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    "bismark",
    "jelly donut",
    "filled donut",
    "Berliner"
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    "upper-midwest",
    "us"
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    "dough": "yeast",
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   "blurb": "A round raised donut with no hole, fried, then injected with fruit preserve, custard or cream and finished in sugar or icing.",
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   "type": "donut",
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    "buttermilk donut"
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    "socal",
    "us"
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    "dough": "cake",
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   "blurb": "Cake batter cut in a bar rather than a ring, fried so it splits open along the top, and glazed heavily enough that the glaze runs into the split.",
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    "fry cake",
    "cake-type",
    "chemical-leavened donut"
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    "us"
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    "dough": "cake",
    "finish": "sugared"
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   "blurb": "A ring of thick batter, not dough, raised by baking powder or soda rather than yeast and dropped straight into the fat from a depositor.",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "id": "chocolate-cake",
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   "name": "Chocolate cake",
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    "devil's food",
    "chocolate old-fashioned"
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    "us"
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    "dough": "cake",
    "finish": "glazed"
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   "blurb": "A cake ring with cocoa in the batter, glazed or sugared. Dark, dense, and sweeter than the plain cake ring on the published numbers.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
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   "updated": "2026-09-16",
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   "id": "cider-donut",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Cider donut",
   "aliases": [
    "apple cider doughnut"
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   "region": [
    "new-england",
    "upstate-ny",
    "upper-midwest"
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    "dough": "cake",
    "finish": "sugared"
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   "blurb": "An American cake donut flavoured with apple cider, cinnamon and nutmeg in the batter, usually rolled in cinnamon or granulated sugar.",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "donut/cider-donut/"
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   "id": "donut-holes",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Donut holes",
   "aliases": [
    "holes",
    "munchkins",
    "donut bites"
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   "region": [
    "us"
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    "dough": "both",
    "finish": "sugared"
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   "blurb": "The centres cut out of ring donuts, fried and sold by the bag — or, more often now, made on purpose from the same dough or batter and never cut from anything.",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "id": "fastnacht",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Fastnacht",
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    "fasnacht",
    "faschnacht",
    "fosnaught",
    "kinkling"
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    "pennsylvania-dutch"
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    "dough": "potato",
    "finish": "sugared",
    "state": "PA"
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   "state": "PA",
   "blurb": "A Pennsylvania Dutch fried donut, often made with potato dough, eaten in the days of Carnival and above all on Shrove Tuesday.",
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   "id": "french-cruller",
   "type": "donut",
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    "kruller"
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    "dough": "choux",
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   "blurb": "A ring extruded from choux paste — flour cooked into butter and water, then beaten with eggs — piped through a star tip so it fries up ridged and hollow, and glazed thin. No yeast, no baking powder: steam lifts it.",
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   "id": "glazed-raised",
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    "yeast glazed",
    "the glazed",
    "plain glazed"
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    "bar",
    "finger doughnut",
    "cream stick",
    "éclair (as sold)"
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   "has_profile": false,
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   "id": "malasada",
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    "malassada",
    "Hawaiian donut",
    "filhós (related)"
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    "hawaii",
    "us"
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    "dough": "yeast",
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   "blurb": "A flattened round of yeasted dough, fried and rolled in sugar — cinnamon sugar, often — with no hole and traditionally no filling.",
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   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "donut/malasada/"
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   "id": "maple-bar",
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    "maple log",
    "maple long john",
    "maple creamstick",
    "maple bismarck"
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    "pacific-northwest",
    "socal",
    "us"
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    "dough": "yeast",
    "finish": "iced"
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   "blurb": "A bar of raised dough, fried, then topped end to end with maple-flavoured icing. Sometimes filled with custard or cream; sometimes finished with chopped bacon, which is a newer idea and an argued one.",
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   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "donut/maple-bar/"
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   "id": "mochi-donut",
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    "pon de ring",
    "poi mochi"
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    "hawaii",
    "socal",
    "us"
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    "dough": "other",
    "finish": "iced"
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   "blurb": "A chewy donut made with glutinous rice flour or tapioca flour, usually formed as a ring of eight connected balls that pull apart. Moist, springy, and heavier in the hand than it looks.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "donut/mochi-donut/"
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    "old fashioned",
    "sour cream old-fashioned",
    "fry cake"
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    "us"
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    "dough": "cake",
    "finish": "glazed"
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   "image": "old-fashioned/old-fashioned-old-fashioned-doughnut-from-doughnut-vault-chicago.jpg",
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": true,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "donut/old-fashioned/"
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   "id": "paczki",
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   "name": "Pączki",
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    "paczki",
    "punchki",
    "pączek (sing.)"
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    "chicago",
    "detroit",
    "upper-midwest"
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    "dough": "yeast",
    "finish": "filled"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "A Polish filled donut: a flattened ball of rich dough — eggs, fat, sugar, yeast, sometimes milk — deep fried, filled with jam or cream, and finished in powdered sugar, icing, glaze or dried orange zest.",
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   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "donut/paczki/"
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   "id": "spudnut",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Spudnut",
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    "potato donut"
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    "utah",
    "mountain-west",
    "us"
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    "dough": "potato",
    "finish": "glazed"
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   "blurb": "A donut made with potato flour or mashed potato in the dough. Softer crumb, longer shelf life, and a faint savoury note under the sugar.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "donut/spudnut/"
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   "id": "sufganiyah",
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    "sufganiyot",
    "Hanukkah donut"
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    "nyc",
    "us"
   ],
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    "dough": "yeast",
    "finish": "filled"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "A round filled donut, traditionally red jelly with icing sugar on top, eaten at Hanukkah. Dulce de leche fillings became common after South American immigration to Israel early in this century.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "donut/sufganiyah/"
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   "id": "bacon-egg-and-cheese",
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   "name": "Bacon, egg and cheese",
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    "BEC",
    "baconeggandcheese",
    "bodega sandwich"
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    "nyc"
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    "course": "breakfast",
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   },
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   "blurb": "Bacon, fried or scrambled egg and cheese on bread — in New York City, on a kaiser roll. About 20 grams of fat and 350 calories in a typical one.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/bacon-egg-and-cheese/"
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   "id": "biscuits-and-gravy",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "Biscuits and gravy",
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   "region": [
    "the-south",
    "us"
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    "course": "breakfast"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "Soft wheat biscuits split and covered in a white gravy built on sausage drippings, flour and milk.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "medium",
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   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/biscuits-and-gravy/"
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   "id": "boba",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "Boba",
   "aliases": [
    "bubble tea",
    "pearl milk tea"
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    "socal",
    "us"
   ],
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    "course": "drink"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "Tea with milk and tapioca pearls, sealed under a film lid and drunk through a fat straw.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/boba/"
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   "id": "breakfast-burrito",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "Breakfast burrito",
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    "breakfast wrap"
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    "new-mexico",
    "southwest"
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    "course": "breakfast"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "Breakfast inside a flour tortilla: scrambled egg, potato, cheese, and in the Southwest, New Mexico chile, jalapeño, salsa, onion, chorizo or bacon.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/breakfast-burrito/"
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   "name": "Coffee with chicory",
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    "café au lait",
    "New Orleans coffee"
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    "course": "drink",
    "state": "LA"
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   "state": "LA",
   "blurb": "Coffee blended with roasted chicory root and cut half-and-half with hot milk.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/chicory-coffee/"
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   "id": "egg-roll",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "Egg roll",
   "aliases": [
    "eggroll"
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   "region": [
    "socal",
    "chinese-american",
    "us"
   ],
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    "course": "savory"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "A cylindrical deep-fried roll in a thick wheat skin — shredded cabbage, chopped meat, sometimes shrimp — eaten with the fingers out of a cellophane packet of duck sauce.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/egg-roll/"
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   "id": "fried-rice",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "Fried rice and chow mein",
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    "chow mein",
    "the hot case"
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    "socal",
    "chinese-american"
   ],
   "facets": {
    "course": "savory"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "Cooked rice stir-fried with egg, vegetables and meat, held hot in a steam table beside the donut case — with chow mein next to it in many shops.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/fried-rice/"
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   "id": "klobasnek",
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   "name": "Klobasnek",
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    "klobásník",
    "klobasniky",
    "Texas kolache (as sold)"
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    "texas",
    "houston"
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   "facets": {
    "course": "savory",
    "state": "TX"
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   "state": "TX",
   "blurb": "Sausage — klobása, traditionally — wrapped in kolache dough and baked. Ham, egg, cheese, jalapeño and hot dog are all standard now, and in some Texas shops boudin, the Cajun pork-and-rice sausage.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/klobasnek/"
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   "id": "kolache",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "Kolache",
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    "koláč",
    "kolach",
    "kolaches"
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    "texas"
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    "course": "sweet",
    "state": "TX"
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   "state": "TX",
   "blurb": "A sweet bread with a well of fruit or cheese in the middle of puffy yeast dough — tvaroh, jam, poppy seed, or povidla, which is prune. Baked, not fried.",
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   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/kolache/"
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   "id": "the-pot-of-coffee",
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   "name": "The pot of coffee",
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    "drip coffee",
    "the regular",
    "bottomless cup"
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   "blurb": "Drip coffee from a glass pot on a warmer, in a paper cup or a mug, refilled by whoever is at the counter.",
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   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "dish/the-pot-of-coffee/"
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   "id": "cake-batter",
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   "name": "The batter and the depositor",
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    "depositor",
    "the drop"
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   "blurb": "A thick chemically-leavened batter dropped straight into hot fat through a hand-held or bench depositor, which forms the ring as it falls.",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "kitchen/cake-batter/"
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   "name": "Day-old",
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    "the day-old rack",
    "yesterday's"
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   "region": [
    "us"
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    "kind": "hold"
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   "blurb": "Yesterday's donuts, sold cheap the next morning, usually bagged rather than boxed and usually the rings rather than the filled ones.",
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   "confidence": "medium",
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   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": true,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "kitchen/day-old-rack/"
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   "name": "The filler",
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    "the injector",
    "the nozzle",
    "the pump"
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   "region": [
    "us"
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   "facets": {
    "kind": "finish"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "A hand pump or bench machine that pushes jam, custard or cream through a nozzle into the side of a fried round.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "kitchen/filling-injector/"
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    "shortening",
    "lard",
    "frying oil"
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    "kind": "fry"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "The fat itself: lard, beef tallow, vegetable shortening, or liquid oils — canola, soybean, palm.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "kitchen/frying-fat/"
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   "name": "The glaze table",
   "aliases": [
    "the waterfall",
    "the dip"
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   "region": [
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    "kind": "finish"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "A shallow pan of thin sugar glaze beside the fryer, where raised rings are dragged through face-down within a minute of coming out of the fat.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "kitchen/glaze-table/"
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    "the bench",
    "hand-cut",
    "the cutter"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "Rolling sheeted dough and cutting rings with a two-ring cutter, rather than depositing or buying pre-formed shells.",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
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    "proofer",
    "the cabinet"
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   "region": [
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   ],
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    "kind": "raise"
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   "blurb": "A warm humid cabinet where cut rings take their final rise before they go in the fat.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "medium",
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   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "kitchen/proof-box/"
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   "name": "Dipping and sprinkles",
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    "jimmies",
    "nonpareils",
    "the dip"
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   "region": [
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    "kind": "finish"
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   "blurb": "Icing in flat pans, sprinkles in bins: a donut is dipped face-down, then set in the sprinkles while the icing is still wet.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
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   "acclaim": 0,
   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
   "updated": "2026-09-16",
   "url": "kitchen/sprinkle-and-dip/"
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    "the night bake"
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   "region": [
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "The hours the work actually happens in: dough started in the small hours so the case is full when the door opens.",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "has_profile": false,
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   "url": "kitchen/the-2am-shift/"
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   "id": "the-case",
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   "name": "The case",
   "aliases": [
    "the display",
    "the tray"
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   "region": [
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   "facets": {
    "kind": "hold"
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "The glass case: trays by kind, tongs on a hook, and a layout that repeats across the country without anyone having agreed on it.",
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   "tags": [],
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   "has_recipes": false,
   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
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   "url": "kitchen/the-case/"
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   "id": "the-fryer",
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   "name": "The kettle",
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    "the fryer",
    "the vat",
    "the flip"
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   "region": [
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   "state": null,
   "blurb": "A shallow open kettle of hot fat with a screen, where every donut in the shop is cooked, turned once, and lifted out.",
   "image": null,
   "confidence": "high",
   "tags": [],
   "acclaim": 0,
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   "has_profile": false,
   "needs_verification": false,
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   "url": "kitchen/the-fryer/"
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   "id": "yeast-raise",
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   "name": "The raise",
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    "proofing",
    "the rise",
    "bulk ferment"
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   "region": [
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   "facets": {
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