The Doughnut Fix Series, Book 1 by Jessie Janowitz

Author:Jessie Janowitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2018-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

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Once I’d gotten my lines down, our food supplier calls went much better. And by better, I mean by the end of the day we’d gotten prices from everyone on the list, though one guy did insist on talking to “my mommy” before we talked business.

Josh and I had set a timeline for ourselves. We had only two weeks to figure out where we were getting our ingredients, but Mom made us promise we wouldn’t make any decisions until we’d gone to Stinky Cheese Farm. She was sure it was the perfect place for us to buy the butter, milk, and cream we’d need, and Josh and I agreed that if we could get a good enough deal, it would be cool that the doughnuts were made with dairy from cows right here in Petersville. It might even be a good hook. Starting Your Own Business for Dummies says it’s good to have a hook for your product, something that makes it especially cool or different.

Mom knew we were in a hurry to figure out our suppliers so she arranged for us to visit Stinky Cheese Farm the Saturday after Josh and I had made the calls. The catch was, she wanted Jeanine to go too. To sweeten the deal, she promised to take Josh and me to the movies if we could get Jeanine to come. Basically, she just wanted Jeanine to leave the house, which she hadn’t done in days.

I hadn’t seen a movie in forever. Back in the city, there was a theater three blocks away, but the closest one now was almost an hour’s drive. I didn’t even care what we saw. I just missed the whole sitting-in-a-dark-place-on-someone-else’s-adventure feeling.

And the movie theater popcorn. I missed that too. What is it about movie theater popcorn?

When I came downstairs that morning, Jeanine was in her usual place on the couch studying for the Solve-a-Thon. Mom was there too, already working on her. “Not just cows, baby cows. Look how cute.” Mom was shoving her phone right up in Jeanine’s face.

“They’re called calves,” Jeanine said, underlining something in her study guide.

“You’re not even looking.”

“Because I don’t care.” Jeanine fled to the other side of the couch.

“C’mon,” I said, “Josh is gonna be here any minute. You’re not even dressed.”

“I’m not going.”

“We won’t even be gone that long. We’ll just bike there, see some cows, eat some butter, taste some cream. Then we’re outta there, and you can come right back here and study for the rest of your life.”

“I’m not interested, thanks.”

If I weren’t such a nuddy, I’d have gotten Mom to say she’d take us to the movies just for trying to get Jeanine to come with us.

Mom shuffled down the couch and shoved her phone in Jeanine’s face again. “You haven’t even looked. Tell me you don’t want to see this adorable calf, and I’ll leave you alone.”

“I don’t want to see this adorable calf.”

“Well, I don’t believe you.”

“What happened to, ‘I’ll leave you alone’?”

“Ask Zoe how cute they were.

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