http://drivinginertia.com/3836/history-of-half-moon-black-and-white-cookie/ Chasing the Jet-Set Life ... at 65 MPH. Wed, 08 May 2013 12:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://drivinginertia.com/3836/history-of-half-moon-black-and-white-cookie/#comment-1025 Marie Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:21:00 +0000 http://drivinginertia.com/?p=3836#comment-1025 Molly O’Neill’s “New York Cookbook” re-creates the Zabar’s recipe, which many people consider the gold standard of NYC-style black and white cookies. But this is such a childhood thing — I’ve been in “half moon” country way longer than I was in black and white territory, but even the North End’s finest specimens seem slightly wrong to me. If you’re inclined to do more research, I’d suggest taste-testing that involves old-school neighborhood bakeries (German-Jewish, Irish, or Italian) beyond Manhattan. You know, for science!

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