How I Burned Down a New York City Apartment for Apple Cider Doughnuts

Fire and spice

Jamie McCallum
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6 min readJan 5, 2021

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Cinnamon-sugar donuts on a table.
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It was intermission at Lincoln Center, where we’d gone to mix with the haut monde to see the New York Philharmonic’s annual performance of the Brandenburg Concertos, when Rachel said she was hungry.

“Let’s grab a slice afterward,” I suggested.

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Jamie McCallum
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Sociologist at Middlebury College. Author of Worked Over on Basic Books (2020). Writes about labor, work, politics, and food