Reserve a Cookie Box From Some Culinary Darlings

This cookie assortment — from Resy, the restaurant reservation platform, and Ovenly, the Brooklyn-based baker — has a dozen cookies made from recipes by chefs like Missy Robbins, Alice Waters, Enrique Olvera, Jeremy Fox and Nina Compton. The selection, available through this month, includes a winter spiced sweet potato cookie, lemon fennel shortbread, chocolate chip…

My, What a Sneaky Little Flour

It’s nothing like spinach in the mashed potatoes. Adding a boost of fiber to home-baked goods, even sugary holiday treats, is easy with a new all-purpose flour. Flourish — made from a strain of white wheat, with a naturally high fiber content, grown by farmers in various locations and processed by Bay State Milling —…

This Cookbook Raises Money for the Ballet

Even the dancers and other staff from the American Ballet Theater have been spending time cooking during the pandemic. The result is a digital cookbook with 65 recipes, including delectables like tarte au citron from Emily Hayes in the corps de ballet, and pirouette pumpkin muffins from Kara Medoff Barnett, the executive director. Among the…

Panettone, Fresh From Italy

Back in 1882, when Olivieri, a bakery in Arzignano, Italy, near Vicenza in the Veneto region, started producing panettone you can be sure that it did not make an apricot and salted caramel flavor. But Nicola Olivieri, a sixth-generation baker in the baking family, is doing just that, along with other flavors, for his luxurious…

This Austrian Cake Sparkles at the Party

Move over macaron. These celebratory little Viennese cakes beg for bubbly alongside. They’re new from Heidi Riegler’s Vienna Cookie Company in Baldwin, N.Y. Called punschkrapferl or punch cakes, they’re the Austrian take on petits fours, with liquor-soaked cake sandwiching fillings of jam and chocolate, glazed on the outside and blinged with a bit of gold…

Birth Defects Tied to Higher Cancer Risk

People born with birth defects have a higher risk for cancer throughout life, researchers report. It has been generally known that major birth defects are associated with an increased risk for cancer in childhood. Now new research suggests that the risk persists, at a lower rate, into adulthood. Researchers used birth and health records from…