Bizcochito is the official state cookie of New Mexico — the first state in the country to designate an official state cookie, which it did in 1989 after significant legislative debate about whether lard-based cookies deserved that level of recognition. The answer was yes. The bizcochito is a shortcrust cookie made with lard, flour, sugar, […]

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The alfajor’s name comes from the Arabic al-hasú, meaning filled or stuffed — brought to Spain by the Moors during the Andalusian period and carried to South America by Spanish colonizers in the sixteenth century. The original Spanish alfajor was a honey and nut confection quite different from what Argentina eventually developed. By the nineteenth […]

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