My sister sent me a Black and White Cookie Natural Rubber Baby Teether she saw and purchased at MOMA ( Museum of Modern Art) in New York City.
She gave me that NYC bag a few years ago which features the Black and White Cookies. My friend Eileen says in Massachusetts they’re called Half and a Half Cookies. Underneath these items is Ina Garten’s cookbook Modern Comfort Food with the recipe. I found it here at the Barefoot Contessa’s website in case you want to bake a batch.
Pasticceria Rocco window on Bleecker Street
They are found in New York City, Boston, and Florida but I found some small ones on sale in Ohio and Pittsburgh.
Editors addition from dc in a Florida 3/03/2024
“Black & white cookies are famous because they’re such a quintessential New York dessert. It’s believed that the cookie was invented at a Manhattan bakery called Glaser’s, which was founded on the Upper East Side by Bavarian immigrants in 1902 and closed in 2018.”
Our family enjoys them on occasion see blog post here
What baby wouldn’t want that for a tether?
I ate them in the 1940’s at my friends house. The tether is sweet as the kids would say.
Ahhhh …a question…should B/W cookies be a Pittsburgh cookie table cookie standard? We do have “immigrants” from NY. LOVE YOUR LITTLE STORIES
I forgot about these. After your previous post about them I noticed them in the local grocery store bakery and got hooked on them. With extraordinary courage and determination I was finally able to walk thru the bakery without buying them. As is often the case with me after reading one of your posts I am inspired to write, research, cook or in this case race off to the grocery store! dc
Gotta have one when I am in NYC.
I imagine the NYC ones are slightly tastier than the Publix ones. 😉
I’ve only had the NYC ones. They are delicious