When I was visiting my friend in North Carolina we made the most INSANE shortbread.
by we I really mean her but I was there and helped by doing things like talking and drinking wine and eating her insane cheese plate and throwing away the butter wrappers……..
My friend is an amazing hostess and cook and she has a true love: Cookbooks.  She hoards them and reads them cover to cover like real books.  I knew these would be good before she even told me that they apparently had a cult following from a famous New York Times food writer Alison Roman…. who now I take it is has turned into a full time cookbook author connoisseur.  Apparently her cookbooks are literally sold out all the time.
AND DAMN.  MAKE ‘EM.