Your Chocolate Chip Cookie Should Be Doing More Work for You
In honor of LGBTQ Pride month, a giant cookie—and a cookbook—celebrate the movement.
Photographer: Lauren Volo, courtesy of Clarkson Potter/Publishers
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What’s happened to the chocolate chip cookie? As every conceivable comfort food has risen to the top of the home-cooking food chain, the most iconic of desserts has been left behind. In March and April, the world’s top 10 most-searched-for recipes included pizza dough, pancakes, and—unsurprisingly—banana bread at No. 1, according to Google Trends. Even brownies, the arch enemy of Toll House, made the cut at No. 5.