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Slashfood Bowl: New York's Black and White cookie

a black and white cookie on a sheet of bakery paper
By the time you read this post today, I'll be on a train bound for New York City. While this is not strictly an eating trip (although I am looking forward to getting some New York pizza) while I'm in New York (during a break from this conference), there's one stop I have to make. I have to go to the William Greenberg, Jr. Desserts. You see, they make some of the world's best Black and White Cookies. I happen to have a boyfriend who went to high school in Manhattan and craves, lusts, longs for these cookies.

There's no bakery in the New England area that engenders such raw food emotions as these cookies stir up in Scott. My dad lived in Boston while he was going to high school, and while he remembers some good eating, there's nothing that generates such passion. This is why New York food so obviously trumps that stuff available in New England!

Black and White Cookies(click thumbnails to view gallery)

Black and White Cookie on a green plateBing's Black and WhitesBlack and White CookieWilliam Greenberg, Jr. Black and WhitesPink and Green cookies


Slashfood Bowl 2008

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Filed Under: Super Bowl XLII, Slashfood Bowl 2008, Bakeries
Tags: black and white cookies, new york Food, Slashfood Bowl 2008, SlashfoodBowl2008, Super Bowl XLII, SuperBowlXlii, William Greenberg, Jr. Desserts

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Lydia Walshin

1-30-2008 @4:39PM Lydia Walshin said... Growing up in NYC, I still can't pass up a great black-and-white. You're right -- they don't exist here in New England. Same with good bagels....
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Shopping Jen

1-30-2008 @5:22PM Shopping Jen said... Can't speak to the quality of "black and whites" from NYC. I grew up in Syracuse, where they're called "half-moon cookies," and anyone who called them different was a heretic. The best ones come from the Harrison Bakery.

I've lived in New Hampshire now for 15 years, and it's true, you almost never find them here. Sometimes the supermarket bakeries will offer them. But they always call them "black and whites" when they do, and they just never taste like the real thing. They get the icing wrong, the texture of the cookie is off.

I satisfy my cravings by buying a box full from the Harrison Bakery when I visit family for the holidays, and putting them in the freezer.
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Matt

1-30-2008 @8:25PM Matt said... Relatively new to New York (12 years, am I a New Yorker yet?) I will say that the Black & White Cookie is a regional classic. Pizza is a fight I don't want to get into. My wife and I don't agree on what is best. I like a good falafel from Moishes (street cart) on the corner of 46 and 6th Ave, Frito Pie from the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and anything from The Spotted Pig, including cocktails. Or you could go to Angel('s?) Share for a fancy downtown drink. In the summer I would go to Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, just for the people watching. Momofuku for Japanese fusion noodles. For Mexican I can visit friends in LA and for sushi I was spoiled by a job in San Francisco.

Good Luck!
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Denielle

1-30-2008 @9:19PM Denielle said... Yeees! Another New York top! Reading this and the Boston pizza post make me miss NY even more!
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E

1-31-2008 @2:25PM E said... I'm from the Syracuse area (F-ville) and to me they will always be half-moons. They are my all time favorite "cookie" as well as dessert and good thing that I am now vegan or I would be at Harrison Bakery every weekend!
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Kyle

2-01-2008 @5:39PM Kyle said... when i see that cookie, i can't help but think of seinfeld.
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L

2-11-2008 @2:49PM L said... I live in jersey but get these from my rlatives in NY that come to visit. they are awesome!
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Fashionista

2-11-2008 @5:48PM Fashionista said... I'm hungry now. Lol. :] mmm... those cookies look good. Too bad I dont live in New York. :[
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Fashionista

2-11-2008 @5:49PM Fashionista said... Looks nice.

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lilmissdrama134

2-11-2008 @9:07PM lilmissdrama134 said... Sadly I've never had a black and white cookie in my LIFE. I hope to try one before I die. :(
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pwaters1

2-12-2008 @4:25AM pwaters1 said... Reading this makes me yearn to be back on 105th Street, just off of Jamacia Ave! They make a mean black and white here in Upstate NY. Their called Half Moon cookies here. I'll need the address of the bakery now!
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