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I love this Cookiegate story. I think it is just hilarious that the first recipe she submitted didn't work and now she is accusing her ex-press secretary of submitting a nasty recipe on purpose. Does anyone believe this woman has ever baked a cookie in her life?

• Ever since voters began telling Teresa Heinz Kerry that they didn't think much of the pumpkin spice cookie recipe her office had submitted to Family Circle's presidential cookie bake-off, an aide said, Mrs. Heinz Kerry, the wife of the about-to-be Democratic nominee, has been thinking how she could tell America the truth: the recipe isn't hers.
  
  In an interview on National Public Radio that was broadcast yesterday, the cookies came up in conversation and in the direct, unvarnished style that people have come to expect, Mrs. Heinz Kerry said: "Somebody at my office gave that recipe out and, in fact, I think somebody really made it on purpose to give a nasty recipe. I never made pumpkin cookies; I don't like pumpkin spice cookies."
  
  Mrs. Heinz Kerry had originally submitted a recipe called Yummy Wonders, but, according to Family Circle, its test kitchen said the recipe did not work. When the magazine called her press office and asked if there had been a mistake, the press office sent the pumpkin cookie recipe without consulting her, said her press secretary, Marla Romash.
  
  Christine Anderson, Mrs. Heinz Kerry's press secretary at the time the recipe was submitted but who now works elsewhere in the Kerry campaign, would not comment and referred all calls to Ms. Romash.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/28/po...28cookies.html