Chocolate-chip cookies
Photo credit: Kirsten Luce | Chocolate-chip cookies
"My wonderful mom lived to the ripe old age of 96, and one of my fondest memories was baking cookies with her. I would sit on the corner transom windowsill of our kitchen in Valley Stream while she mixed the ingredients of her secret chocolate-chip cookies (which I thought she invented) only to find out that the recipe came from the back of the chip bag (circa 1940s). I would lick the batter off...