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Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribune's beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers' stories It's cold in Minnesota, especially around the holidays, and there's nothing like baking a batch of cookies to warm the kitchen and the heart. A celebration of the rich traditions, creativity, and taste of the region, The Great Minnesota Cookie Book collects the best-loved recipes and baking lore from fifteen years of the Star Tribune's popular holiday cookie contest. Drop cookies and cutouts, refrigerator cookies and bars; Swedish shortbread, Viennese wafers, and French-Swiss butter cookies; almond palmiers; chai crescents and taffy treats; snowball clippers, cherry pinwheels, lime coolers, and chocolate-drizzled churros: a dizzying array and all delightful, the recipes in this book recall memories of holidays past and inspire the promise of happy gatherings to come.
About the Author
Lee Svitak Dean is the longtime editor of the award-winning Taste section for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she has been writing about food for three decades. Saveur magazine has called her one of the "unsung saviors of America's local food scene." Her awards include those from the James Beard Foundation, the World Media Awards in Australia and the Association of Food Journalists. Find out more at leedeanbooks.com. Find her on Facebook at Star Tribune Taste, on Twitter @StribTaste and on Pinterest at Lee Svitak Dean.
