The Cookie Journal

Notes from the kitchen

Stories from Jack's Cookies, a home-based cottage bakery in Red Bank, New Jersey — how the Everyday came to be, and what we've learned baking one cookie really well.

Too many cookies: how a mom panic (and a bag of hemp seeds) created the Everyday

The origin story of our one cookie — how stirring hemp seeds into the dough for a little extra nutrition accidentally created the best batch we'd ever baked. By founder Julianna Levine.

Do hemp seed cookies get you high? (No — here's why)

The honest answer about culinary hemp seeds: why the hemp in our chocolate chip cookies is a food, not a drug, and what those seeds actually add.

What makes a chocolate chip cookie organic?

What the word actually means on an ingredient list, what we look for when we buy flour, butter, and chocolate, and why it matters for a small-batch bakery.

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