When I was a child, we would stop at a bakery after Church on Sundays, and cookies identical to these were always a treat. And it turns out they date back at least a hundred years, and even won a spot in the TV show Seinfeld! As the N.Y. Times reported in a story about the end of that show:
"The characters on ''Seinfeld'' did not eat well, but they ate very New York. The ''Seinfeld'' diet was an Upper West Side smorgasbord of cheap eats: Chinese takeout, soup in a paper cup, rye bread, gyros, pizza, muffins and calzones. The piece de resistance, however, the New Yorkiest bit of food in television's New Yorkiest series, was the oversize black-and-white cookie, a New York standby that is sold in bakeries and delis all over the city."
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