Get our collection of Best Cookie Recipes of 2025: https://bit.ly/48Lf6Dl Don't freeze the cookies (if possible)! On a recent episode of Milk Street TV, our culinary production director Wes Martin explains why. Baking cookies first, then freezing them, compromises texture: sugar cookies turn brittle and crumbly, oatmeal raisin cookies become tough and dry. It is totally fine to make the dough ahead, freeze it in balls, then bake them straight from the freezer. This delivers, well, fresh-baked co

On a recent episode of #milkstreetradio, food writer Tim Hayward taught us that the perfect steak is one with character. In Spain, he tried beef from a 25-year-old working cow—an animal that spent its life as a tractor, not a feedlot resident. The meat was unlike anything he'd ever experienced: deep, complex and far removed from the buttery, cut-it-with-a-spoon steaks we're told to crave. Sometimes the most memorable flavors come from animals that actually lived. Listen and subscribe on Apple Po