Tag: cookies

  • Digestive Biscuits in Their Proper Context

    We begin our search in the fetid mire of Victorian England.

  • Please, No Sweets This Holiday Season

    I’d much rather have the pleasure of your company.

  • Please Don’t Bring Sweets to Work

    Well, we’ve all survived the holiday season once again. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day. Whew. Glad to be looking at them in the rearview mirror, if I’m honest. At least until they roll around again, with all their unhealthy food temptations. It’s pretty much assumed that all of us are going to gain weight over the…

  • The Best Cookies on Earth

    I used to know a guy who loved to bake cookies. He was socially inept and often felt left out of things, but when he made cookies, he became the man of the hour, because his cookies were like heaven made edible. He really should have gone into business. He’d have made a fortune. People…