Black and White and Not All Right: These Cookies Must Stop!
Ah, the venerable black-and-white cookie. No other cookie is more inextricable from the American Jewish identity—and particularly the New York Jewish identity—than this soft, sponge-like vanilla cookie that is slathered on top in equal part chocolate and vanilla fondant, right down the middle.
Some people call them “half-moons.” But they would be wrong, those people, because a half-moon cookie, while originating in Utica, New York in the same early 20th century time frame as the black-and-white, is in fact a devil’s food cookie iced with half-chocolate/half-vanilla buttercream frosting. So stop calling them that, philistines.
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