From the Vault: The Christmas Candy Book and The Christmas Cookie Book
We are expecting our first snowfall in New York City today, which has me looking out the window every two minutes for the telltale flight of snowflakes. Snow excites me just as much now as it did when I was a child. Little wonder: where I grew up, snow was a rarity, magical, almost mythological.
I still remember my first snowfall. It happened around Christmas time, and in that hilly, sun-driven country, civilization ground to a halt. There were no cars on the road as one business after another turned the sign on the door to the CLOSED side. Tv pictures showed vast expanses of white snow and, as the overnight freeze set in, crystalline ice. Old-fashioned holiday lights -- the kind with the fat oval bulbs, sequenced blue, green, red, orange and yellow -- glittered through the snow, as pretty as the pictures of northern winters, sent by distant relatives, I was going through as the snow fell against the window and my grandmother busied herself in the kitchen.
In honor of first snowfall, I'm baking white chocolate brownies -- a recipe I'll share in an upcoming post. Meanwhile, to get into the spirit for making holiday treats, here are two reviews I wrote this time last year for Slashfood: one of my favorite cookbook author's contributions to the holidays -- a book about making Christmas cookies, and a companion for Christmas candy.
I still remember my first snowfall. It happened around Christmas time, and in that hilly, sun-driven country, civilization ground to a halt. There were no cars on the road as one business after another turned the sign on the door to the CLOSED side. Tv pictures showed vast expanses of white snow and, as the overnight freeze set in, crystalline ice. Old-fashioned holiday lights -- the kind with the fat oval bulbs, sequenced blue, green, red, orange and yellow -- glittered through the snow, as pretty as the pictures of northern winters, sent by distant relatives, I was going through as the snow fell against the window and my grandmother busied herself in the kitchen.
In honor of first snowfall, I'm baking white chocolate brownies -- a recipe I'll share in an upcoming post. Meanwhile, to get into the spirit for making holiday treats, here are two reviews I wrote this time last year for Slashfood: one of my favorite cookbook author's contributions to the holidays -- a book about making Christmas cookies, and a companion for Christmas candy.
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