Norman Rockwell’s Oatmeal Cookies

Shortly before Norman Rockwell passed away in the late 1970s, he sent the editors of the Saturday Evening Post a letter containing his all-time-favorite recipe—oatmeal cookies.

Vintage Recipe Cards Lead to Heartwarming Food-Blogging Story

Here's a sweet story to help offset all of the disaster/junk food/alleged racism news of this morning: Last summer, a Cincinnati writer named Bryn Mooth purchased a bunch of recipe cards from the thirties at an antiques shop. After she got the cards home and began examining them, she found that many of them were inscribed with the name "Clara Shenefelt."

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