Today is the Day of Remembrance, a day of observance of February 19th, 1942 when the crime against humanity that was the mass internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans, two thirds of whom were native-born American Citizens, first started. Innocent families, children, grandparents, were forcefully relocated into concentration camps primarily on the west coast of the United States. This was all done out of blatant ignorance and cowardice of President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, with the signing of Executive Order 9066, meant to solve the “Japanese Problem.” The irony of creating our very own concentration camps on US soil while fighting a war to…
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Gluten Free Tahini Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ever heard of pan-baking cookies? It might sound like they’re so good you just can’t help smacking the pan of right-out-of-the-oven beauties on the counter. It might be a little bit of that, but it’s a tried and true baking ‘technique’ that creates little ripples around the edge of your cookies as the center, still-gooey dough settles in. These are our first take on those – a bit stiffer because they’re tahini-packed, so they don’t have the most destinct ripples like the famous pan-banging chocolate chip cookies by Sarah Kieffer (we REALLY want to try out recipes in her book, “100 Cookies”) but they’re a start! What these cookies do…
