Dorie Greenspan's Cookie Advice

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Dorie Greenspan's Cookie Advice

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Mar 8, 2024

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This week on Special Sauce Dorie Greenspan zooms in from Paris with lots of helpful cookie baking advice.

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Mar 8, 2024

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Serious Eats' podcast Special Sauce enables food lovers everywhere to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation about food and life between host and Serious Eats founder Ed Levine and his well-known/famous friends and acquaintances both in and out of the food culture.

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