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The key to reproducing any type of "cookie store" cookies is BUTTER. Lots
and lots of BUTTER.
Maybe try the Neiman-Marcus $250 cookie recipe [ http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/service/nm_cookie_recipe.jhtml ] and add cocoa powder to the recipe, and substitute the correct type of chunks[A ??
Maybe try the Neiman-Marcus $250 cookie recipe [ http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/service/nm_cookie_recipe.jhtml ] and add cocoa powder to the recipe, and substitute the correct type of chunks[A ??
So this time I'm in Chicago. Or rather Lincolnshire, which is about an hour outside of Chicago. For at least another two weeks.
Anybody else out this way?
I try to stay away from Chicago. It is the mecca of food heresy. In particular,
the pie-like concoction they have the nerve to call "pizza" :)
<laughs> Sadly, I'm going on my 3rd week here and have yet to have chicago pizza!
I did, however, manage to find a real boiled bagel and hand-cut novy....
FWIW, there are plenty of places in Chicago that serve a traditional, thin crusted, large triangle sliced pizza.
Freakdog - Incorrect.. There are places in Chicago that serve traditional,
thin crusted, large triangle sliced za.
The geography is all wrong to call it pizza.
(Just getting that in before IG does.)
The geography is all wrong to call it pizza.
(Just getting that in before IG does.)
I believe that both styles are enjoyable, they are two totally different meals. I don't know why people argue about it so much.
People from certain northeaster cities tend to be somewhat snobbish about
what they believe pizza should be. Having lived in the northeast, and had
pizza in that particular city, I don't find the pizza any different than going
to any other little Mom and Pop pizza shop in areas outside of that particular
city.
Do people outside that particular city some how confuse the city with the rest of the state? Do they refer to the refer to the rest of the
state as "upstate"?
I find it hard to find "good pizza" outside of my hometown. Perhaps it is what I was used to, I know when I come back I can't find that
childhood taste.
state as "upstate"?
I find it hard to find "good pizza" outside of my hometown. Perhaps it is what I was used to, I know when I come back I can't find that
childhood taste.
Do people outside that particular city some how confuse the city with therest of the state? Do they refer to the refer to the > rest of the
state as "upstate"?
Generally, we in fact refer to anything north of 38th st as "Canada."
As a former New Yorker and now North Carolina resident, I can attest to Freakdog's
observations. I've found a few mom & pop shops down here that serve pizza
just as good as I've had in NY.
To be fair, though, almost all of those shops are owned and operated by former New Yorkers. :P
Pizza Binder
To be fair, though, almost all of those shops are owned and operated by former New Yorkers. :P
Pizza Binder
I would go to this one place in West Palm Beach that had a phrase "upstate New York pizza" or "Central NY pizza" something along those
lines. It wasn't how I remembered. They had a great specialty pizza, great subs, and a great little bakery but the traditional pizza
wasn't how I remembered.
This place had no seating, take out only. It was like a really small convenience store, with a deli and bakery counter.
lines. It wasn't how I remembered. They had a great specialty pizza, great subs, and a great little bakery but the traditional pizza
wasn't how I remembered.
This place had no seating, take out only. It was like a really small convenience store, with a deli and bakery counter.
There is a persistent urban legend which cites a pizzeria or bagelry, usually
in Florida, that according to the story has a daily delivery of tap water
from New York City because of the belief that the water there is what gives
the pizza and/or bagels there their signature taste.
I don't know about Florida, but from what I've heard, parts of North Carolina are now essentially embassies of New York. I wish our politicians would leave the state too.
I don't know about Florida, but from what I've heard, parts of North Carolina are now essentially embassies of New York. I wish our politicians would leave the state too.
A lot of the politicians in Florida are from New York. They reproduce and spread. "New York sucks, lets go somewhere else nice and make
it just like New York."
it just like New York."
Uhm...There are so many former-New Yorkers living in Florida, it might as
well be renamed "New New York." :P
There is some truth, however, that a region's water can make a difference
in, at least, the consistency of bread products.
I don't know how much I believe that pizza is better or worse in different
geographies. But I do enjoy riling people up on the subject.
Someday, someone will discover one or more of Aahz's hot-buttons, despite how well he's kept them sooper-seekrit. And then all hell will break loose.