Cookies and Milk

We were always getting caught with our hands in the cookie jar as children, and we still are. Cookies just don’t seem to let you grow up. Ever since the Dutch brought their koekjes to the New World, Americans have been wild about cookies. We’ve raided every nation’s cookie jar for the best—tea biscuits from England, tuiles from France, shortbread from Scotland, Christmas cookies from Germany and Austria, and almond cakes from China. And in our inimitable American fashion, we’ve thrown into the cookie dough everything from peanut butter to chocolate, then dunked the results in milk. Today, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.