Who Needs Potpourri? Bake Fall Cookies - No. 249

Oatmeal, molasses, and peanut butter are all flavors I crave this time of year + Barbara’s Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe.

THIS PAST SATURDAY I WAS INVITED to speak about American baking at a meeting of The Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina in Columbia. That morning, we awakened to the news of the Hamas invasion of Israel.

On a table at the back of the meeting room were trays of homemade cookies—rugelach from the ladies at the Beth Shalom synagogue, Sandra Polikaff…