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  • Sugar Cookies: It’s Science!

    Sugar Cookies: It’s Science!

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    The First Reader gave me a lovely Christmas present. When he told me about it, he apologized. “You’re going to have to do more work when you get it.” On Christmas morning when I unwrapped it, I understood. Cookie cutters, clever little science cutters with fiddly impression-making bits inside them. A test tube, microscope, Erlenmeyer…

  • Christmas Cookies

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I’ve been cooking for thirty years now. I can vividly remember the first thing I baked from scratch by myself: a three-layer german chocolate cake with coconut-pecan icing. My father’s favorite, and I was nine. Skipping forward a few years to high school, and in a small school with an hour study hall, where you…