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And not that you should go read a highbrow conversation about the most portable, least-messy dessert invented by humankind, but Sara Dickerman, Dorie Greenspan and David Lebovitz had one over at [I]Slate[/I] last week that is notable for its ability to make you hungry even immediately after eating and the consensus to which they came: ginormous cookies, like ginormous cars, are out. And then they talk about delicious sweet cookie goodness.
The great thing about cookies — as Dickerman points out — is that they are a personal gift that even a recession (or student poverty) can't keep you from giving. Dickerman and Greenspan both talk, too, about one of my favorite aspects of baking: the Zen-like focus that baking from scratch can require. It's a physical and mental task to make good cookies (if you don't have a stand-mixer), as you add the ingredients in the right order, fold the dough, tray the cookies and wait for them to be baked as you put more dough on a tray to wait its turn. It's comforting in its guided, precise creationism.
Anyway, all of this is to say: leave your favorite Christmas cookie in the comments. If you looking for recipes, two of mine favorites are here, but several Christmases ago a woman in my yoga class made me chocolate ginger cookies and never "remembered" to give me the recipe — so if you have that one, leave that, too!
The State Of The Cookie [Slate]
Related: Almond Christmas Tree and Nutmeg Cookies [Internet Food Association]
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