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December 2, 2024
This Is TASTE 504: Holiday Baking Sugar Rush with New York Times Cooking’s Vaughn Vreeland
By: Aliza Abarbanel Illustration: Ellie Skrzat
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Vaughn Vreeland is a supervising video producer overseeing the test kitchen studio team for NYT Cooking. He’s also a passionate baker and home cook, and he develops recipes for the Times. Today we had Vaughn on to talk about what happens behind the scenes and about bringing the NYT cookie package to life.

Also on the show, Aliza and Matt talk through their go-to holiday baking recipes, as well as mention a couple they each will be trying out. Lastly, they strategize their entries for the 2nd annual Crown Publishing Group office cookie contest, which they will be entering in.

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Aliza Abarbanel

Aliza Abarbanel is a contributing editor at TASTE, the co-founder and co-editor of Cake Zine, and a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. Previously, she was an editor at Bon Appetit.