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Did you know the doughnut maker was invented by a refugee? Back in 1920, Russian refugee Adolph Levitt had a business selling doughnuts at his bakery in New York City. With high demand and pressures ...

In 1931, The New Yorker reported on a circle of dough that was becoming an exponentially popular phenomenon: “Doughnuts float dreamily through a grease canal in a glass-enclosed machine, walk dreamily ...