For you, I baked a double batch of big, soft cookies with whole wheat, oatmeal, flax, apple sauce, liqueur-soaked raisins. I won’t say wholesome, because that word is adopted by the food industry to mean “Filling but bad for you” or “Parents, feed this nutritionally valueless food to your children without guilt.” What’s wrong with us that we can’t simply eat what we want and describe it the way it is? Pasta that’s secretly good for your kids. Cookbooks describing how to include a quarter cup of vegetables in each serving of macaroni and cheese.

These are healthful, but still cookies.

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