Pittsburgh Cookie Table.

Sometimes you read something on the 'net, and then you follow a link, and then you read something else and there's another link and suddenly you go "oh. Oh. Oh wow" because you have just discovered something weird and/or awesome.

That happened to me when I stumbled across the Pittsburgh Cookie Table. In case you are just as unknowing as I was before, there's a tradition in Pittsburgh (and a few other spots, but mainly there) where you have a table with lots of cookies for special occasions, such as weddings. Wikipedia knows about this, of course - but if you really want to be smacked in the eyes with lots and lots of cookies, a picture search will do nicely.

If you are looking for recipes now, there are a few (together with more pictures) linked to on this page. A few definitely sound intriguing - though I think I'll stay mostly with my old favourites for the Christmas baking...