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By Richard Sax

Published 1994

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Any child who does not have a country grandmother who keeps a cooky jar is as much to be pitied as one who grows up with protruding teeth. If it is impossible for a grandmother to live in or move to the country, solely to insure the proper spiritual start for coming generations, at least it is possible to have a cooky jar.

MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS,

CROSS CREEK COOKERY, 1942

Everybody loves cookies. But especially Americans. While the British keep “biscuits” (their term for cookies) on hand for tea and Germans celebrate their Christmas traditions with lebkuchen (gingerbread cookies), only in America are milk and cookies such a key part of growing up. Where else in the world could you find a Cookie Monster?

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