Why Does This Middling Cookie Endure?
They are not very good yet everyone loves them
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9 min readAug 1, 2019
My husband’s uncle Jonathan is a clinical psychologist in his 60s who grew up on Long Island and lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Because he belongs to the demographic that would care about such things, I told him I was working on a story about black and white cookies, and asked how he felt about them. “I love them,”…