More Cookies, Less Milk

Image courtesy of Clumbsy Cookie.

Yesterday was National Cookie Day (NCD). It's kind of amazing how many articles and blog posts you can find about cookies on any given day. It's also amazing that Alabama County just named the second Monday in November "The Barack Obama Day" by a 4 to 1 vote. County offices will close and its roughly 40 workers will get a paid holiday. (Had to get that in some way or another.)

• In honor of NCD Hungry Girl listed some cookie-infused, low-cal recipes.
• You can always find something tantalizing on the blog Clumbsy Cookie like the chocolate cake above that started off looking like a big stack of cookies.
• Lisa Young, whose work is currently on view at Cue Art Foundation, has saved fortune-cookie fortunes that she received at Chinese restaurants. Today's fortune from the artist's website:
  
  

• My granny loves Mother's Cookies, the iconic pink and white iced circus animals. According to the Seattle Post, the company folded in October, went on the auction block Wednesday, and Kellogg's bought up the company's trademarks and recipes. Granny will be very happy.
• The food section of yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette listed a shopping/cookie-eating walking tour that offers a taste of more than a dozen different cookies at 18 shops in their area. Since I'm on the topic of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum of Art announced some recent contemporary art acquisitions including a 2007 enamel on linen piece by Christopher Wool; Spherical Plateaus (c. 1968), a kinetic sculpture by Aaronel deRoy Gruber; and Thomas Schütte's, Zombie VIII (2008), which is currently on view in Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International.
• Anna of the blog Cookie Madness gives a rundown of her personal NYC cookie tour.
• Gourmet Magazine is saluting one cookie for every year from 1941-2008. [via AT/The Kitchen]
• Coming soon to Contemporary Confections: a two-part interview over a bag of Chewy Chips Ahoy with artist Brendan Carroll of Agitators Collective.