On Friday, Anna and my roommate, Vanessa, and I went to the city to see an off Broadway play. After, Anna suggested we go to her favorite cookie shop Schmackary’s.

She had told me previously that they made gluten free cookies. This made me super excited because every since moving to Wagner I haven’t really been able to have a lot of deserts or baked goods. So we made our way to the cookie shop where I bought the last remaining gluten free cookie called the “Yogi Bare”.

The “Yogi Bare” consists of gluten free oats, peanut butter, applesauce, cranberries, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seed, raisins, maple syrup, and cinnamon.  When I searched for, and found, the ingredient list online before we arrived it got me thinking back to Dr. Smith’s class a week ago when she brought in the Dutch Spice cookies. This was like my own version.

Like the ones in class I dissected the ingredients and tried to figure out where each ingredient came from. Using the Colombian Exchange image Dr. Smith had in class, I found out that the oats and sugar came from the old world while most of the other ingredients were from the new world. Just like the Dutch Spice Cookies, my cookie puts into prospect how global our world became after the age of explorations. Without the exchanges, those cookies would have never existed. Overall, the cookie was amazing and makes me excited to try more gluten free options in New York City.