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- Wedding guests in Pittsburgh are filling their plates with homemade, old-fashioned cookies baked by the mothers, aunts, grandmothers and in-laws.
- It's not Christmas in southeastern Alabama without the cake ladies stacking up a 15-layer chocolate cake.
- Danny Meyer, of Union Square Hospitality Group fame, is creating the "anti-chain chain" as he rolls out four new Shake Shacks in 2010.
- In Dresden, Germany, residents bake stollen, a richly sweet bread of dried fruit, ginger and almonds, to celebrate the holiday season.











