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...blunt mathematical approximation of crowdsourcing, Meg Hourihan, a cookie enthusiast and co-founder of Blogger.com put a dozen chocolate-chip-cookie recipes into a spreadsheet and averaged out each ingredient and instruction. On her blog Megnut.com she posted the result: "A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie." I decided to make it and compare it to one of the best chocolate-chip cookies I've ever had: the ones that chef Kerry Simon, of the restaurants Simon in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, includes with a glass of milk on his platter of Rice Krispies treats, cotton candy, sno balls and other...
...both of our amazement, the cookies were pretty good. Hourihan had also assumed they would come out an inedible mess. "Everybody who bakes tells you it's about exact measurements. But there's still room for play," she says. "It was better than a lot of the chocolate-chip recipes I've tried...
...Wikipedia lets average Joes do to encyclopedia entries), we thought we'd compare a great chef's great cookie against one that was a blunt mathematical average of lots of cookie recipes. The great chef is Kerry Simon of Simon in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe comes from blogger.com cofounder Meg Hourihan, who posted it on her website, megnut.com...
Kerry Simon's Chocolate Chip Cookies...
...general, the projection for late 2010 and 2011, when much of the stimulus spending will have run out, is that the economy will continue to grow but at a rate slower than past recoveries. A recent poll of economists by the newsletter Blue Chip Economic Indicators found that on average, economists expect the economy to expand 2.7% in the fourth quarter of 2010. That's faster than the economy is growing today, but not what you would expect in good times. "The rule is that the deeper the recession, the more robust the rebound," says Blue Chip editor Randy Moore...