HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE $250 COOKIE RECIPE?
Categories: Desserts Yield: 1 servings No Ingredients by Daniel P. Puzo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Fresh from a downtown Los Angeles bar, a sometime consumer gadfly arrived at The Times with a hot tip about yet another case of corporate callousness and greed. Brandishing a photocopied letter, she claimed a famous department store, in a sneaky and underhanded manner, had charged an unsuspecting patron an outrageous sum for a recipe- the company’s popular chocolate chip cookie. The actual victim was apparently an unnamed, but credible, Beverly Hills matron. The single-page letter was full of indignation as it vividly described the incident and even contained exact dialogue of the transgression. It began: “My daughter and I finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas and decided to have a small dessert. Because our family members are such ‘cookie monsters’ we decided to try the Neiman- Marcus Cookie. It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe, and they sai
