Left No Crumbs

Left No Crumbs

A holiday cookie swap is all about accessible abundance: For the price of entry (i.e., an afternoon spent baking one type of cookie to share), guests leave with full cookie tins erupting with biscuits, wafers, and bars, an assortment of treats displaying different colors, flavors, and provenances. It’s that promise of variety — and the […]

Your Cookie Swap Table Needs This Savory Parmesan Cake

Your Cookie Swap Table Needs This Savory Parmesan Cake

Helen Goh, formerly the lead pastry developer at Yotam Ottolenghi’s London restaurant empire, believes in the power of baking. In her latest cookbook, Baking and the Meaning of Life — Goh also co-authored two books with Ottolenghi, Sweet and Ottolenghi Comfort — she goes deep into the pure pleasures of mixing dough and crafting crusts […]

Dan Pelosi’s Pignoli Are the Life of the Cookie Party

Dan Pelosi’s Pignoli Are the Life of the Cookie Party

Dan Pelosi famously loves a holiday cookie swap. On his Instagram account, @grossypelosi, and personal website, the recipe developer has chronicled many of his cookie parties over the years, during which he rolls brown butcher’s paper atop a large table and invites guests to drop by with their treats, open-house-style. Some of Pelosi’s cookie recipes […]

A Café de Olla Recipe That’s Made for Gathering

A Café de Olla Recipe That’s Made for Gathering

Since it opened in July, Cafe Tondo has quickly become a Los Angeles hotspot, offering conchas and coffee in the morning and drinks and dancing later in the day, beneath the glow of red neon lights. Co-founder Abraham Campillo owns another business in the neighborhood, the design company Mouthwash Studio, and had noticed local frustration […]

Mokonuts’s Iconic Chocochunk Cookie Is Intentionally Imperfect

Mokonuts’s Iconic Chocochunk Cookie Is Intentionally Imperfect

The eclectic, bare-bones Mokonuts has been charming diners in Paris’s 11th arrondissement since 2015, showcasing co-owners Moko Hirayama and Omar Koreitem’s singular and wonderfully simple approach to food. Over the years, several signature dishes have emerged at the daytime-only restaurant: labneh on toast with seasonal vegetables, silky veloutes inspired by the freshest produce, and of […]

Benne Seed Wafers Pair Well With Everything

Benne Seed Wafers Pair Well With Everything

According to culinary historian, educator, and multiple James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Michael W. Twitty, the Southern table is a place where “the real world and the places that exist in memory, myth, and mystique sit side by side.” In his new book, Recipes of the American South, Twitty outlines how the culinary identity of […]