Cookie Baking Progress How many of the 69 cookies in the Gourmet Cookie Book have I made so far? My very smart readers will notice that the "count" is included in the titles of each post. My last post was on cookie number 24. That makes 35% of the 69 cookies in the book. (I work with statistics in my real job--can't resist them here.) My excruciatingly smart readers will notice that we are halfway through the year, yet I am only a third of the way through the book. Behind my goal. Time to get cracking. Of course there is some lag between making and writing about each cookie. I have made 28 cookies to date. Would anyone be surprised to learn that more time goes into the writing than the baking? I sometimes have several blog posts in the works at once, and add ideas about several cookies as I play with part of the dough one day and part of it the next, or test whether some cookies really taste better the second day, as the book sometimes says. Still, it's catch-up...
I began this blog when my mother was ill and needed enough of my attention that I could not concentrate on longer-form works I wanted to write. I set those aside to distract myself with cookie-making and this blog. Please find my new blog (2020) entitled "Time NOT Lost" at karenbrattesani.blogspot.com, where I explore the behavior I see around me -- both my own and that of others -- and what it says about our changing culture during the coronavirus pandemic. And, I hope, beyond.