Dacie Moses House featured in New York Times
Written for the newspaper’s Dining section, the piece is titled, “Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House.”
Carleton’s Dacie Moses House was featured in the New York Times in a piece for the Dining section titled, “Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House.” Reporting by Ron Lieber was accompanied by photographs from Liam James Doyle.
As midnight approached on a Monday in late March, the new oven in the Carleton College cookie house was showing some strain.
It was running about 20 degrees too cool, a bit of intel that each successive cook had passed along since early afternoon. A baker had mistimed some of her butter cookies. Another engaged in an experiment she referred to as “Choose Your Own Adventure Scones,” including a strawberry-cardamon escapade that literally fell flat.
Seraphina Shutt worked her pie dough as two fellow students rattled off a detailed recap of a recent “From,” a promlike party put on by the school’s six Ultimate Frisbee teams. She tried to tune it all out as her crust refused to come together. “Your pie can smell fear,” she said.
Carleton’s cookie house is not a frat house (Carleton doesn’t have any), a dorm, a dining hall or a student union. But it is a place where anyone from the campus, at nearly any hour, will find a pantry stocked with the ingredients for making chocolate-chip cookies. They can bring other provisions and bake whatever they want, but cookies are the thing that prospective Carleton applicants often hear of before they learn anything else about this small liberal-arts school, just over 40 miles south of Minneapolis in Northfield, Minn.
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The piece was included in the New York Times “The Evening” newsletter for Friday, April 17 as well as its “In Short” newsletter for Monday, April 20. It was also featured as the Footnote for The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s April 20 “Daily Briefing” newsletter.