Date: June 4, 2023 3:16:00 PM
Baker: April and Jake
Purveyor: Menagerie Coffee, 3rd St
Cost: $2
Rating: 8/10 Best cookie to get when you’re wandering around center city with your friends at Pride and pop over to your wife’s coffeeshop to say hi
Category: Uncategorized
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Chocolate Chip Rye
PHILADELPHIA, PA — I sit at a cafe table, alone, looking across the intersection. Sunlight trickles through leaves to warm the salmon bricks of rowhomes’ southern faces. Like my own, they crack a smile in the pure, animating rays—receiving them with gladness.
House sparrows hop among branches. A cool breeze, conjured amidst the alternating sun and shade, vivifies the trees, who seem to pass their springy energy along their long, supple limbs directly into the little birds themselves.
It is a quintessential day in Philadelphia: every corner is active but tranquil. Parties of friends, families, and new lovers amble from farmers market to cafe and back again.
It is in this pool of activity that sit, again alone, but comfortable. I am riding the ripples of activity that flow to me and back out again. I enjoy the tilts and bobs that generate a meditative rhythm, keeping my mind trained on the peaceful energy of this moment.
But this replay of halcyon days also carries a saccharine bite. Like a dessert from some faded Italian bakery, who over years of repetition, produce confections of edible nostalgia, its singular hollow note reminds me of a former time when this simple recipe was sufficient.
I need something radically new, though these old patterns still serve as a comfort. I need a chocolate chip rye cookie with some salt sprinkled on top. 9/10
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Popcorn-marshmallow Cookie
Date: May 17, 2023 2:54:06 PM
Baker: Timbertrain Coffee Roasters?
Purveyor: Timbertrain Coffee Roasters, Gastown
Cost: like $5
Rating: 10/10 Best cookie on the trip
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Monster cookie, middling
Date: May 16, 2023 3:05:58 PM
Baker: Woods Coffee
Purveyor: Woods Coffee, Railroad Ave
Cost: 🤷♂️
Rating: 6/10
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Cookie post from the Oregon Coast
cookie cross-section Date: May 12, 2023 1:03:19 PM
Baker: Insomnia Coffee Co
Purveyor: Insomnia Coffee Co
Cost: don’t remember
Rating: it grew on me, 5/10
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