The ‘Impossible Cookie’
To the editor:
Regarding the doubly baked biscotti from John D’Addario’s Yonkers grandma Filamena/Fay [Dec. 15, page B3]:
What are called biscotti in Italian are known as mandelbrot in Yiddish, locking in the almond version. And because the cookies are wedge-shaped, as the mandel (almond) itself is, they suggest the shape of the eye.
You might toss in some rozhinkes (raisins) — open to free association as far as resemblances go.
But whether in Yiddish or in Italian, the impossible cookie crumbles both ways.
Shirley Spatz
Provincetown
Flushing at Maurice’s
To the editor:
Now that the town of Wellfleet owns Maurice’s Campground, to keep things flowing nicely there when it opens, I suggest that a sign be posted inside the cabins and at every RV and trailer site, reading “Flush Twice — It’s a long way to the cesspool.”
Mike Rice
Wellfleet
