National Cookie Exchange Day
An informal US tradition — neighbors trade homemade cookies, each contributing a dozen of one kind. Origins traced to Wisconsin in the 1930s, then everywhere via women's magazines.
- Category
- Food
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United States
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Full history →Notable · 2010
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