February 24, 2005

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In the Name of Adventure and Baking

When I got home from work today, a wonderful surprise was waiting for me: a box of deliciousness from the Flying Cookie Fund.

The FCF is a front for my sister, Lily Sloan. It is the monicker by which she trades cookies for cash.

But understand: Lily may be a dancer by training, but she is a cook by nature. She seriously has some sort of innate gift for making food — a gift that has been honed, of course, by years of yummy treat-creation.

I would recommend these cookies even if I weren’t her brother. They are so not your Pillsbury dough-house wimp-o-chip generi-cookies. No, they’re inventive and complex and made from wholesome ingredients (no hydrogenated whatsits here!) and far, far tastier than anything Mrs. Fields ever made.

My box contained twelve “California Cookies.” (Well, about twelve. I ate a bunch kinda fast so I can only estimate.) These things have avocado in them! You can be sure you’ll get something creative and perhaps even regionally appropriate.

And it only costs ten bucks. C’mon dude: ten bucks. That’s so worth it, given the quantity of joy a dozen of these cookies will bring to your life (and optionally the lives of your friends and co-workers). Details here, or you can just Paypal the $10 to lssloan at oakland dot edu.