Marissa Rothkopf-Bakes: The Secret Life of Cookies
Marissa Rothkopf, Kate McDermott, Ayelet WaldmanA weekly newsletter with new sweet and savory recipes every week, where I talk about politics and culture (and bake) with people you know, plus a vault full of nearly 200 recipes. MY COOKBOOK: The Secret Life of Chocolate Chip Cookies (Page Street, 2025).
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CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE ALERT: Today my cookbook is 45% off, as part of a Prime Deal! If you buy two, it’s like getting one almost free!
Sixty new recipes for every kind of chocolate chip cookie (and cake, and breakfast cake and and and) yo...
A Lush Walnut Cake with Honey-Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
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I Contain Multitudes. Mostly Cookies
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A Cookie for Sharing
Hello and a very good Tuesday to you.
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A Sere and Pleasant Land
The “lawn” outside Hereford Cathedral, Summer 2026.
The fields and lawns in England were sere and hay-colored this summer. Our regular trip to visit my husband’s mum was punctuated by frequent emergency alerts about wildfires less than 50...
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Author, The Secret Life of Chocolate Chip Cookies Cookbook. Writer, Contrarian, NYTimes, Newsweek, etc. Host: The Secret Life of Cookies podcast. https://linktr.ee/marissarothkopf
James Beard & IACP nominated author of Art of the Pie writing about hearth & home, baking, cooking, walking, gardening, dogs … and pie.
Writer of novels, nonfiction, TV and film. But mostly? Quilter.
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