Almost everyone is preparing for the holidays and if one reads food blogs, that means a lot of cooking! Many associate Christmas cooking with baking. Just recently, the food blog community Is My Blog Burning had a cookie swap. I understand that this has become a tradition in many places in the US during the holiday season.

Here in the Philippines, it is also customary to exchange food items during the Christmas season. When I say Christmas season of course, it starts in September, as the cool wind blows down from the north and migratory birds start wintering in our tropical clime. From then on, time swiftly flies past. In December, all sorts of confections and baked goods seem to flood the tables. There was one time I received five boxes of cookies in a span of three hours!
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