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Friday November 06, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Cookies and milk
category: Talk with Tiff


On a blustery morning in front of a bus, I balanced my camera and squinted through the viewfinder. My eye found what my stomach desired. A giant's sized tray of chocolate chunk cookies with a pristine pitcher of milk. It sat staring at me. The people at the podium talked. The members of the audience watched. I waited.

Unable to contain my stomach rumbling, I switched from recording the speech to recording the snack. Cookie, cookie, cookie. Were they soft? Were they chewy? Were they as good as they looked? As official after official passed the microphone, I conspired. How could I work chocolate chip cookies into a story about the Tysons Express bus service? The minutes passed, the interviews followed. My feet lead me to my tastebud's desire - the cookie tray.

First bite and a follow-up to make sure - they tasted less delicious than they looked. Not to be twice trumped, my motivation to include the cookies only increased. You'd better believe that beautiful display of sugar, egg, flour, chocolate and butter highlighted my story. Where there's a will...there's a way...so while the cookie may not have been for me, it most certainly made it on TV!

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