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Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Food and Home&Garden sections. She has worked as a food journalist at Northwest newspapers since 1993, most recently as a food writer, editor and restaurant reviewer in King County before joining The News Tribune in 2004. Her food obsessions at the moment are honey, cheese and oysters.
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Debbie Cafazzo and I are in a cookie frenzy this week. We tested recipes for dozens yesterday – pignolis, pizzelles, anisette and spumoni slices. I spent most of the morning decorating the anisettes pictured above (these are the rejects we gave TNT staffers, Peter Haley commandeered the pretty ones to our photo studio this morning). The cookie recipes came from Bill Trudnowski, who owns the Adriatic Grill; and Christine Ciancetta, a chef who teaches Italian cooking classes at Bayview Cooking School in Olympia. Watch next Wednesday's food section for the story and recipes.
Since cookies are on my mind, I wanted to tell you about finding cookie goodness in Tacoma. Christine Johnson recently opened Cookies Your Way at Freighthouse Square. It's a small store with a tiny seating area and a display case with a daily selection of six to eight different kinds of cookies, baked fresh daily. The store may be small, but the warm decor matches the richness of Christine's cookies.
Her cookies are delicious and buttery. They have just the right chewy texture and are big enough for sharing. Forget cupcakes or frosting shots, these cookies are IT.
My picks: The chocolate pecan, s'more and triple chocolate ($1.95 each).
Eat with coffee: Buy one, then get an espresso from nearby Tosta.
For you cheapos: Day-old cookies are packaged and sold at a discount on a rack by the register.
Cookies Your Way: 430 E. 25th St, Suite 101
Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday
Info: Website here.
