I like the world peace cookies. World peace Cookies Excerpted from Baking: From My House to Yours by Dorie Greenspan (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Copyright 2006 by Dorie Greenspan. Makes about 36 cookies I once said I thought these cookies, the brainchild of the Parisian pastry chef Pierre Hermé, were as important a culinary breakthrough as Toll House cookies, and I've never thought better of the statement. These butter-rich, sandy-textured slice-and-bake cookies are members of the sablé family. But, unlike classic sablés, they are midnight dark there's cocoa in the dough and packed with chunks of hand-chopped bittersweet chocolate. Perhaps most memorably, they're salty. Not just a little salty, but remarkably and sensationally salty. It's the salt Pierre uses fleur de sel, a moist, off-white sea salt that surprises, delights and makes the chocolate flavors in the cookies seem preternaturally profound. When I included these in Paris Sweets, they were called Korova Cookies and they instantly won fans, among them my neighbor Richard Gold, who gave them their new name. Richard is convinced that a daily dose of Pierre's cookies is all that is needed to ensure planetary peace and happiness. * 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour * 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder * 1/2 teaspoon baking soda * 1 stick plus 3 tablespoons (11 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature * 2/3 cup (packed) light brown sugar * 1/4 cup sugar * 1/2 teaspoon fleur de sel or 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt * 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract * 5 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped into chips, or a generous 3/4 cup store-bought mini chocolate chips 1. Sift the flour, cocoa and baking soda together. 2. Working with a stand mixer, preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the butter on medium speed until soft and creamy. Add both sugars, the salt and vanilla extract and beat for 2 minutes more. 3. Turn off the mixer. Pour in the dry ingredients, drape a kitchen towel over the stand mixer to protect yourself and your kitchen from flying flour and pulse the mixer at low speed about 5 times, a second or two each time. Take a peek if there is still a lot of flour on the surface of the dough, pulse a couple of times more; if not, remove the towel. Continuing at low speed, mix for about 30 seconds more, just until the flour disappears into the dough for the best texture, work the dough as little as possible once the flour is added, and don't be concerned if the dough looks a little crumbly. Toss in the chocolate pieces and mix only to incorporate. 4. Turn the dough out onto a work surface, gather it together and divide it in half. Working with one half at a time, shape the dough into logs that are 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap the logs in plastic wrap and refrigerate them for at least 3 hours. (The dough can be refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 2 months. If you've frozen the dough, you needn't defrost it before baking just slice the logs into cookies and bake the cookies 1 minute longer.) Getting Ready to Bake: 5. Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment or silicone mats. 6. Using a sharp thin knife, slice the logs into rounds that are 1/2 inch thick. (The rounds are likely to crack as you're cutting them don't be concerned, just squeeze the bits back onto each cookie.) Arrange the rounds on the baking sheets, leaving about 1 inch between them. 7. Bake the cookies one sheet at a time for 12 minutes they won't look done, nor will they be firm, but that's just the way they should be. Transfer the baking sheet to a cooling rack and let the cookies rest until they are only just warm, at which point you can serve them or let them reach room temperature.

I'm so glad you found a cookie you like! I also think crisco in a cookie makes the best chewy cookies but it does bug me that it does!

Don't get into the salt/caramel thing either. Do pour a pile of salt on the plate and dip the radishes in it tho, used to occasionally sprinkle a little salt on top of a celery stick. The recipes I got from my mother were from way back when there was no unsalted butter available so the recipe said "butter" it was no choice but salted butter and usually there was something like a quarter tsp of salt so no big deal. The extra grain or two of salt in a cookie would not be discernible, especially in peanut butter cookies! I didn't start using unsalted butter until probably 15 or 20 years ago. It was not common at the time either. The only time I noticed an issue was when I made some mud bars and I had goofed the first time I made them so the icing turned out to be thick, rich fudge. So good, I kept doing it that way and everyone loved it. But I made some and it was SO salty even I had trouble eating it (and this comes from a person who at the time still put salt on ham!). Amount of salt was tiny so my guess was it had to be the butter, hence the switch to unsalted and usually buy it ever since unless I'm buying soft butter. Don't see an unsalted version of the soft stuff.

Cannabis contains many different chemicals. THC is the chemical that gets you high, CBD is one of the chemicals that has the most medical benefit. Both of these can be found in medical cannabis - some with just one, some with both, depending on the application. In terms of cancer treatment and chemotherapy in specific, THC is the more useful of the two because of several effects. First, it induces an appetite. One of the first things that happens with most chemo is a loss of appetite because the taste buds are dulled and everything tends to get a metallic taste due to cisplatin (one of the chemo drugs.) The other effect is relaxation. Cancer causes anxiety. Chemo makes that anxiety much worse. THC relaxes the patient and relieves much of the anxiety. The old adage "stress kills" is real life. Cancer is stress to the nth degree. Relieving that stress may be the difference between successful treatment and failure. For other medical problems, the amount of each of the chemicals in cannabis determines what it's effects on the human body will be. Seizures require more CBD. PTSD requires more THC. And so on. I'm not a doctor, although I was a paramedic for almost a dozen years and, having lost a wife to cancer and battling my own cancer, I've spent hundreds of hours pouring through medical research that relates to cannabis and cancer. So, I'm not an expert, but I've got a good feel for what works.