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The article features several bakeries in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The author says the treats at the Party Cake Shop at Mt. Lebanon and Brookline are some of the best in the region. Some of the features of the Vanilla Pastry Studio at East Liberty include homemade cookies, macaroons, and whoopie pies. The Bartram House Bakery, which is entirely family-owned, makes everything they offer from scratch.

In the article, the author discusses the wedding cookie table tradition, which she claims as an original tradition from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She cites other areas in the U.S. which is claiming to be the original source of the tradition, namely, Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan and Cincinnati, Ohio. She cites several facts showing that Pittsburgh is the origin of the tradition, including the claim by Wikipedia that the tradition originated in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

A review is offered for the Osteria 2350 and BRGR restaurants, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along with some information on the homemade cookie tour.

Earlier this month,Sarah Palin showed up in Bucks County, Pa., with ''dozens and dozens'' of cookies, suggesting that the state's schoolchildren risked losing the right to the occasional classroom treat because of a high-minded anti-sugar edict from the board of education. Pretty much everything about the setup was wrong. Pennsylvania wasn't, as Palin tweeted, in the midst of a ''school cookie ban'' debate. And the school she turned into a photo op wouldn't have been subject to such a ban had one existed; it wasn't a public school but a private Christian academy. And while Palin might have been seizing an opportunity to ''intro kids 2 beauty of laissez-faire,'' she wasn't just visiting with schoolchildren but was delivering a paid speech at a fund-raiser. Still, however shaky its factual foundations, Palin's highly mediatized cookie showdown was a big rhetorical win. With her unerring feel for the message that travels straight to the American gut, she had come up with new and vivid imagery to make the case that the Obama ''nanny state'' is, essentially, snatching cookies -- i.e., the pursuit of happiness -- from the mouths of babes. Suddenly, Pennsylvania's suggestion that schools encourage alternatives to high-sugar sweets became an assault on the American way of life. On freedom and simple pleasures. On wholesome childhood delights and, of course, the integrity of the family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on foods, bakeries, and sales in Pennsylvania. The Cookie Tour in Lawrenceville on December 3-6, 2009, will enable each participating businesses to offer a different type of homemade cookie for sampling. The holiday-themed treats including pumpkin bread and apple-spice scones are available at Dozen Bake Shop in Lawrenceville on December 24 and 31, 2009. The All-Clad Cookware warehouse discount offerings will be held at the Washington County on December 4-5, 2009.

The article highlights the "Joy of Cookies Tour" organized by Lawrenceville gallery owner Mary Coleman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Toddler-sized gingerbread men numbered from 1 to 25 will be hung outside or in the windows of the 25 participating shops for the four-day event. Merchants will offer home-baked holiday cookies, recipes, bargains and games inside the shops.

The article discusses the food tradition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The author observes that the quantity and quality of the cookie assortments at several functions are a source of endless discussion and family pride. He notes that people are stockpiling cookies for the season of weddings, graduation parties, anniversaries and other family gatherings.

The article presents a letter from a reader who shared her experience of making a cookie out of the dough in cookie-dough ice cream in Pennsylvania. She used spoons to dig out the dough pieces with her father, rinsed the dough and let it dry. They mushed it together to form one cookie and baked it for 12 minutes.

Features the innovation of housewares retailer Contemporary Concepts in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Procedure in ordering company logo cookies; Price of a dozen minimum cookies; Contact information of the company.

Informs on a limited-edition cookie offered by the Pittsburgh Zoo and Jenny Lee Bakery Stores to commemorate the growth of the baby African elephant at the zoo. Sale of the cookies at bakery outlets through March 12, 2000.

Reports on the boxes of cookies donated by the Pennsylvania Girl Scout troops and their customers to the United States service members in Bosnia and Saudi Arabia. Number of cookies that came from Media and Yardley, Pennsylvania; Planes that delivered the cookies; Number of boxes of cookies shipped from 1997 to 1999.

This article reports that Kraft Foods Inc., plans to have a developer construct a new box in Streetsboro for its Nabisco Cookies and Crackers unit. The box would be a 100,000-square-foot warehouse that, according to industry estimates, will cost about $10 million. The new warehouse will replace warehouses Kraft operates in Macedonia and in Washington, Pennsylvania. About 50 people will work at the warehouse, with most moving from Macedonia. Some workers in Pennsylvania will continue to drive delivery trucks there, and salespeople assigned to that warehouse will work from their homes or other offices. Streetsboro Planning Commission has approved plans for the Kraft warehouse, which would be constructed on a site on Mondial Parkway by a development partnership named Becknell LLC.

Presents testimonies of the seventh and eight-grade panelist on Reese's milk chocolate dipped cookies with peanut butter product of the Hershey Co. in Pennsylvania. Description of the product; Comments on the packaging; Remarks on the texture of the cookie.

Shares young consumers' reviews of the Cookie Cones, Baked with Minis Chocolate Candy product from the Cone Guys Ltd. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taste and texture; Suggestions on how to improve the product; Packaging.