On the subject of tortillas, I adore a super fresh mexican-style corn tortilla like almost nothing else. Made with just corn flour, lime and water, and served with melted cheese. One of the great simple pleasures.
On a recent trip to Costco I picked up (among too many other things, natch) a big chunk of the yummy Spanish Manchego cheese and some honest-to-God New York Black and White Cookies. The latter has got to be of Jewish origin but I'm curious to know if they were an old-world thing or some more recent invention. For those who don't know them, Black & Whites are more like a little sponge cake cooked on baking sheet, so that one side is flat but the other rises up like the rounded top of a cake. After they cool, the flat bottom is frosted with a very specifically-textured icing and becomes the top. One half is iced with chocolate (black) and the other with a very lemony vanilla (white). Sometimes you'll find fake ones with gooey frosting (actually the one in the picture below looks suspect) but really it needs to be fondant (I think?) icing like on a petit four, which forms a shiny and subtly hard outer layer once it has cooled. Here, I'll write a haiku tribute:
Black and white cookie
Moon of soft cake and icing
Snap chocolate and lemon
