Shaping the Way the Cookie Crumbles

"Define cookie, please,” I asked the Dalai Lama on top of the mountain. I might have asked him the more obvious question, “What is the meaning of life?” but cookies have preoccupied my attention as of late, with me being interested especially in the directions that they have been taking and the ingredients being used in their subsequent reformulations.

However, even understanding the basic parameters of the cookie might not necessarily be an easy task in today’s sometimes …