Cookie confluence
by CarolineA few weeks ago my friend and former high-shool teacher Kelly wrote an intense, wonderful account of her favorite cookie recipe and its influence on her relationship with her future husband. Here is my favorite part:
Men my age tended to be freshly divorced, pudgy, cap-wearing, and goateed.
Then today my best ladyfriend Emily wrote about a similarly beloved cookie recipe and, since she is a bigtime international politics dork, took it in a make-cookies-not-war direction:
These cookies will win hearts and minds. You could subdue the nastiest of people, prevent unrest, and end wars with these cookies.
Kelly’s cookie of choice is Nigella Lawson’s spin on death by chocolate. Emily’s is a chocolate-coffee variety from Gourmet. Both, apparently, bring people together. The moral is that you should go forth, make cookies, live long, and prosper.
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I loved both of those stories. I vow to be more domestic this year, and I think I’m getting there, eventually.