Engineering the perfect cookie: You can control the diameter and thickness of your favorite chocolate chip cookies by changing the temperature of the butter and the amount of flour in the dough. Morgan Walker/NPR hide caption
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Sweetness: Kathy Plaisance and about 50 other bakers use their skills to bring sweet treats to people who might otherwise be overlooked. Emilie Ritter Saunders for NPR hide caption
The author pauses to photograph the St. Honore cake before she digs in. Deena Prichep hide caption
Beware of throw-away aluminum roasting pans, burn doctors say. James Bo Insogna/iStockphoto.com hide caption
A daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, taken in 1846.
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