Ode to a Cookie

I don't get excited about normal things I think. It is always the simplicity of the details that get me going. For instance, I watched a food network show with the legendary Alton Brown on making corned beef and the nitrates used in the "natural" process that are usually not done anymore in the US. However, here you could really see that done and the corned beef and cabbage I had for lunch the other day was awesome.

Or I got excited that the steak tartare (I love the stuff) was served traditionally where you were provided four little piles of stuff to mix in to your pleasure.

Or the plate of "exotic" fruits (that was the menu title) that I got for desserts included a perfect blackberry.

Or the green beans that I got were a beautiful mixture of different colors which looked great (even though they simply tasted like green beans).

So maybe looking back it is the little things in FOOD that I love in traveling. However, the one little thing that has just gotten me weak in the taste buds is a cookie. A wafer thin cookie (c'mon, have just one... It is waffffer thin.) But this cookie is no ordinary cookie. It is a "Finest biscuit with carmelized almonds and Swiss Chocolate" called a "MandelCaramel" cookie made by Kambly. Simple. Light. Complex. Perfect.

Maybe I just need some quality time at home.