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The Great Cookie Bake-Off

Since 1992, Family Circle magazine has invited prospective First Ladies to submit a cookie recipe, and then asked its readers to vote on the best one for its quadrennial cookie bake-off. Each time, the one with the most popular recipe has ended up First Lady. This year, Laura Bush’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk cookies take on Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Pumpkin Spice cookies.

Food historian Laura Shapiro says the popularity of the bake-off says a lot about American politics. In this radio diary, she puts both recipes to the test and says you can learn a lot from a cookie.

Guests:

Laura Shapiro, author of “Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.”

 
 

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