Cookies in Cultural Anthropology

A friend of mine writes a great blog about exotic sweets. In a recent post, she suggests that a lot can be learned about a culture from its cookies:

"I'd argue for judging a culture by its cookies. Besides being more palatable, cookies are at least as revealing. Even simple things, like size, or variety, or shelf-life can lead to new understandings (or at least new questions) about how people within a group relate to one another."

You can read more of Julia's insights at sweet-travel.blogspot.com