Americans have a "hole" lotta love for the donut. Credit Maine mariner Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory for that. The then-future high-seas hero, in a moment of deliciously divine inspiration as a ...

Olykoeks, a predecessor to the doughnut that literally refers to an "oily cake," were brought to the United States by Dutch settlers in the 1600s. And while these balls of fried dough certainly ...

Experts agree that it wasn't until the mid-19th century that holes in the middle of donuts became the norm, thanks to a New England seafarer named Captain Hanson Gregory. Captain Gregory was ...

The thought did occur to me, the more I learned about Hanson Crockett Gregory, a 19th-century sea captain buried in the Sailors Snug Harbor Cemetery in Germantown. There is a fairly recent ...