Submitted by Dame Sharon Olson
San Francisco, 2012
This year’s Winter Fancy Food Show took over the streets of San Francisco. With sold-out exhibit halls featuring over 80,000 specialty products from 1,300 exhibitors representing over 35 countries, …

Chocolate-Coconut Macaroon Pies
by Gale Gand and Julia Moskin
from Short + Sweet (Clarkson Potter, 2003)
Makes 24 tartlets
The “dough” for coconut macaroons is so easy to make—just sugar, egg whites, and coconut—that I was tempted to see …