Your Monday Lunch Break Reading List

Life moves pretty fast, as Ferris Bueller says. Here's a selection of our favorite stories from the site this weekend.

Saturday

• We prepped for Hanukkah by coming up with a night-by-night game plan and compiling a list of common latke problems and how to fix them,
• It became evident that having brown butter at the ready all the time, always, is the only way to go.

Sunday

• We celebrated the first night of Hanukkah with lotsa latkes...
• ...and considered inviting French toast over for dinner.
• Hooray! We announced our Cookies of the World, along with a gorgeous little cookie map by Jordan Sondler.

Monday

• Your mantle never looked better.
• Hillary Reeves took us down the thumbprint cookie rabbit hole.
• The community came up with a few solutions for using up that last bit of molasses, and they are all pretty tasty.

Tuesday

• The secrets to softening brown sugar were revealed.
• DIY candles for Hanukkah... and beyond!
• We found that there is nothing more delicious than homemade cannoli.
• Haven't found a project to tackle this season? Just reminding you that we reminded you that brewing beer is a great one.

Wednesday

• We gave you a few ways to help reduce or prevent food waste in your own kitchen!
• Savory whipped cream was a thing. And it was delicious.
• #NSDL hit the roof!

Thursday

• Lindsay-Jean put together a list of some truly phenomenal gifts that give back.
• Wine myths were busted.
• 1 Minute Meal profiled Dave Cook, author and photographer behind the blog Eating in Translation and he shared his love of the food of and around different cultural communities.

Friday

• We took a look at Felicia Campbell's The Food of Oman and liked (and couldn't wait to taste) what we saw.
• Bitten by the travel bug, we went a step further and rounded up 46 cookie recipes from around the world for the holidays.
• And jumping off of cookies, we couldn't resist Yossy Arefi's bites of orange flower-scented baklava.
• Even more cookies? You bet: We launched a seriously gorgeous—and community-sourced!—cookie map featuring 46 cookies from every corner of the world.