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Raquel Oliveira's avatar

God I love your writing. Thank you for this Letter, Luisa!

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Luisa Weiss's avatar

Thank you!

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Charlotte's avatar

I love this so much! Yes, was musing over cookies the other day. Will be making Pfeffernuse with you (yay!) and also biberle (or my son will disown me) plus our perennial fav almond cookies and zimsterne and stolenkonfect that were such a hit last year. And if I can manage them a batch or two of the cranberry white chocolate shortbread I made a few years ago that I still think about. Better get shopping and baking...

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Luisa Weiss's avatar

So glad you'll be attending the Six Dutchess class!

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Fisherina's avatar

Oh my gosh, that gingerbread chocolate cookie recipe is a bit labor intensive but it’s honestly the main #1 Christmas cookie on my list every year. If I don’t have enough time to make 5-6 different ones (and I never do) I must make these, at the least. They taste like Christmas. Thank you, Martha.

Happy Thanksgiving to Luisa and all! 🍁🦃

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Luisa Weiss's avatar

Excited to try!

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Sarah Copeland's avatar

I've missed your voice. And relate very much to the obsession/joy/flow/dream of working on one encompassing project--as well as the impossibility of shifting gears and being thrust between two very different and occasionally incongruent parts of my world (parenting/writing), both of which I love very deeply but are hard to do at once. So much more to say on this, but I'm cheering you on. Also: in desperate need of proper winter pajamas, so glad you added your voice to this. x

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Luisa Weiss's avatar

So glad you can relate!! xo

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Jolene Handy's avatar

Just got your book, Luisa, and can’t wait to make the Christmas bread.

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Joy's avatar

I will be making molasses ginger cookies, angel cookies (a sort of soft sugar cookie that ends up with a slightly crackly glaze-y sugar coating), pistachio cranberry shortbread, and these odd and amazing buckwheat walnut cookies that were presented in the wall street journal as "Russian teacakes" a couple years ago, and which are not actual Russian teacakes but are in fact much better.

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Eleanor Mayrhofer's avatar

Man, can I relate to this! While not as purely creative, I really do enjoy my work. Every now and then I 'escape' to a hotel in the city for a night or two, ostensibly to relax but then end up working until I'm ready to go to bed. I actually find it energizing but at the same time realize that in a weird way it's good I have my family constraints, otherwise I'd flame/burn out fast.

Thanks for the cookie recipes! I was invited by another expat to an American cookie exchange and the invite stated (in all caps!) NO PLÄTZCHEN! Those stamped lemon shortbread cookies look good.

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