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Cascade, Iowa

The Menster Christmas Cookie Gravestone

A mother’s sweet tradition lives on with this unique memorial.
food

How Coconut Macaroons Earned a Place on the Passover Table

Industrial innovations and a heavy push from Jewish companies helped cement the cookie as a new tradition.
Sam Lin-Sommer April 15, 2022
gravestones

Podcast: Grandma Ida’s Nut Rolls Gravestone

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team January 4, 2022
Rehovot, Israel

Ida's Nut Roll Gravestone

A family recipe is just one of several touches that make this Hebrew headstone special.
Cookies based on a 1,300-year-old archeological find.
recipe

Ancient Cookies, Medieval Mead, and Our Other Favorite Recipe Stories This Year

Bake, brew, and stir-fry your way through history.
Diana Hubbell December 21, 2021
cemeteries

Podcast: The Spritz Cookie Gravestone

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team October 11, 2021
The cookies "calm all bitterness of the heart and mind."
saints

Eat Like a Medieval Saint With Her Recipe for 'Cookies of Joy'

St. Hildegard was a mystic, healer, and passionate proponent of spelt and nutmeg.
Sam O'Brien September 20, 2021
These cookies, though made with millet, are inspired by the finds at Astana.
food

How to Recreate 1,300-Year-Old Cookies

Found in an empty tomb, these sweets have staying power.
Anne Ewbank April 15, 2021
These two jars are a tiny fragment of Warhol's huge collection.
art

For Sale: Two Cookie Jars From Andy Warhol's Massive Collection

They sat on top of a fridge for decades.
Karen Chernick February 16, 2021
Behold Martin Lersch's extremely efficient cookie cutter.
mathematics

The Satisfaction of Mathematically Efficient Christmas Cookies

If only there were a cookie-cutter solution.
Isaac Schultz December 23, 2020
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kennedy Biscuit Lofts

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.
The cookies' two signature ingredients, rum and molasses, demonstrate the deep relationship between New England economy and cuisine, and slavery.
food

How a Black-Owned 19th-Century Tavern Became the Birthplace of a Beloved Cookie

Joe Froggers tell a story of Black business ownership, slavery, and seafaring in Massachusetts.
Reina Gattuso June 18, 2020
Mexico, Philippines

Atching Lillian Restaurant

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.
Aachen, Germany

Printen Museum

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.
The bakery-museum's cookies.
Radovljica, Slovenia

Lečtarski Museum

Nibble as you learn about Slovenia's longstanding tradition of making beautiful honey cookies.
The Toll House Inn
Whitman, Massachusetts

The Toll House Inn

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.
San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.
A baker makes fortune cookies at Hougyokudo in Kyoto, Japan.
food

The Free Cookie in Your Chinese Takeout Is Actually Japanese

Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
Selena Takigawa Hoy October 11, 2019