I am so excited to finally share my newest baby with you, Zoë Bakes Cookies! It is available for PRE-ORDER and will be delivered on Sept. 3, 2024. This is my 10th cookbook and the one that has captured my heart. Over the past two+ years I’ve been on a journey to collect all of my favorite cookie recipes and put them together in this book. Not only did I…

fyi, you are receiving this newsletter because you previously subscribed to my email list :) who i am Hi, I’m Emily! I’m so happy you’re here! I am the creator of Linen & Gray on Instagram where I share royal icing decorated cookies and bakes that are primarily cookie related. I come from a family of foodies who love good food and their treats. Now as a …

I participated in a cute little Valentine’s Day pop-up market last week. For it, I created three new seasonally-inspired cookie recipes and sold gooey little cookies wrapped in cute cellophane. And this month, I’m sharing all three recipes with you! There will be a deep dark chocolate hazelnut cookie swirled with cocoa hazelnut butter and an soft and chewy oatmeal cookie filled with rosemary butter, tart cherries, and shards of white chocolate coming to your inboxes later this month, but today is all about these strawberry vanilla sugar cookies.

I think of myself as the Queen of Chocolate Chip Cookies. I’ve developed dozens of new recipes. My ever-growing recipe collection runs the gamut: there’s a crisp, gooey Irish cream version, a happy pink strawberry chocolate chip cookie and a monster of a

There’s a voice inside my head that says it’s a waste of time to make art that cannot be kept, held on to or preserved. Actually, there’s a voice in my head that says making any art is a luxury that I cannot afford. I have reoccurring conversations with this voice to set the matter straight by defe…

These are… what I like to call the okayest cookies in the world. There’s absolutely nothing fancy about them- they exist to scratch the chocolate chip cookie itch you get from time to time. Like a no bullshit chocolate chip cookie, to remind you of childhood before you knew what brown butter was. It’s also like… there’s probably 1,000,000 chocolate chip…

Consider: A class of people obsessed with being seen to eat the “in” foods; crazy food fads embraced across all classes; restaurants run by celebrity chefs, food writing that turns eating into an art form, an obsession with local and seasonal food, science and technology colluding to create superfoods, an underclass subsisting on a diet based on sugar. …

Hi! Welcome to Words With Friend, a place where you’ll find words (duh), eats (mmm), and other cool shit (tbd). A moment on the name: Senior year of high school, we all used to change our Facebook names (it was still Facebook back then) to punny phrases that helped “hide our inappropriate photos” from colleges who might be stalking us on the Internet. Fo…

Recently, I asked my grandma to send me two of my favorite Christmas cookie recipes. A week later they arrived by mail written on little recipe cards in the small, scrawling cursive that only grandmas seem to have. She sent me two different recipes for spritz cookies and one for her famous date swirls. They’re perfect, I love them, and I thought I’d sha…

I did not grow up with a Christmas cookie tradition, which was fine — I didn’t long for one; I had, and have, no sweet tooth. We are Entenmann’s people for the most part, and even then, I’d almost always rather have a slice of pizza or a grilled cheese sandwich or even a little whitefish salad on a toasted sesame bagel fro…

Picture it: Connecticut, 1986. I’m twelve years old, and am probably wearing a paisley shirt from The Limited with little shoulder pads in it. The collar may or may not be popped. My parents are hosting a party for some of my dad’s colleagues and their spouses, and I have just bitten into the best cookie I’ve ever tasted.

I’ll be posting a new recipe for very chocolate-chocolate shortbread later today for the people who want nothing to do with peanut butter. In the meantime, for all the peanut butter fanatics out there, and the thoughtful people who bake for them, here is a list of recipes to consider. Some of my favorite cookie recipes are on this list.

Just in time for those still stumped by the holiday, I send you these suggestions along with best wishes for 2024, may it be, inshallah, peaceful, productive, and positive for us all! And please, do not expect to hear from me again until the new year.

Hello! This is the last Weekend Reading of 2023. I will post 1 more Funding + M&A Update later this week and will post a year-end reflection and predictions for 2024 sometime in late December/early January. Weekend Reading will return in early January - please feel free to reach out with questions, comments, book recommendations, cookie recipes, surf vid…

ICYMI, this post is part of a series wherein I veganize all the cookies from the New York Times Cooking Cookie Week, arguably my favourite part of the holiday season. The challenge kicked off with an emotional introduction and some easy vegan butter and egg recipes

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Welcome to Buona Domenica, a weekly newsletter of inspired Italian home cooking (and baking!). I’m Domenica Marchetti, journalist, cooking instructor, occasional tour guide, and author of eight cookbooks on Italian cuisine. Before we move on to the newsletter:

Hey everyone, Have you recovered from Thanksgiving yet? Last night, after landing at LaGuardia, getting back to Brooklyn, and reuniting with our beloved child/dog Winston, I zipped over to Union Market and stocked up on bananas, pears, radicchio, broccoli, and as many other fruits and vegetables as I could carry back in my mitten-less hands. Call it a cl…

“You know, it’s called ‘From the Hip’”, I said to my friend as we sat in Robert’s Western World, the only good thing still left in Nashville, listened to some Sunday night Honky Tonk, watched the eld…

“In order to have faith in our quality as human beings, we need to remember!” This morning on Threads, I saw a video of a college student at Concordia University in Canada, shouting the “K” word (rhymes with “bike”) at a fellow student after a teach-in that appears not as effective as maybe hoped.

Hi friends, I hope the late summer, early Autumn is finding you well. I love this time of year — the promise of Christmas, the seasonal visits to pumpkin patches, the rotation of menus towards warmer and more cozy bites, pulling out the warm sweaters, snuggling and cuddling a little bit more. Even just writing this makes my heart feel a bit happier.