One of the projects I undertook while writing Purple House Dirt was a thorough testing of Alice Medrich’s Cookies and Brownies, a tiny little book with 50 recipes that went out of print almost as soon as it was published. I reached out for permission to re-print each recipe, and got a wonderful response from Alice Medrich herself. Not only did she grant me permission to re-print the recipes, she offered me a chance to test a few of the recipes she was updating for her new cookie book, Chewy Gooey Crunchy Crispy Melt-in-your-Mouth Cookies. I pitched in and met her when she was in Seattle on her book tour!