Well, your cookies look great, and I'm glad my article helped out a bit. I love the close ups of all the steps. And, just so you know, you're right. My tongue was planted so firmly in my bulging cheek when I wrote that "altar" line, it hurt. Glad you got the humor behind some of the comments. Oh, about my "affection for the finest detail and most subtle nuances of food and eating," call it obsession. They have medication for that, don't they? David Leite WOW, David - I'm psyched that you found this blog post. Thanks for taking my pokes with good humor. And thanks for the article - NYC, to those of us in the hinterlands, is like Oz. Something you kind of wonder at from afar. It's always nice to get a report from inside the gates. Now - how about the same approach to bialys? I haven't had a good one since 1974, Providence, the deli under the Brown science library... Cheers, David- PJH

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