Holiday Cookie Binge Recipe

Ingredients: 3+ lbs unsalted butter (“European style” preferred) 1 bag unbleached flour sugar, sugar, sugar (white, brown, molasses, crystallized, powdered, candies…bring on the sugar) 1 bag 99% cacao, unpronounceable, super snobby chocolate chips accoutrements of your liking: walnuts, pecans, rolled oats, seeds (poppy, sesame etc.), spices, jams, and so on. a pinch of self-loathing baking… Continue reading Holiday Cookie Binge Recipe

Tarof and Other Christmas Rituals

We were raised in an Assyrian-Iranian American household. “Tarof” takes up a large part of the day. It’s a set of rules to follow in social situations. Just Wikipedia that shit. You can’t come right out and say what you think or ask for what you want. That’s rude! It often involves insisting that others… Continue reading Tarof and Other Christmas Rituals