Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. A royal blue tin of Danish butter cookies is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're a certain age, you've probably experienced the bitter disappointment of opening one of those signature blue tins (you ...

Ubiquitous in immigrant households, the cookie tin might be a more apt metaphor for our journeys than the melting pot. By Raksha Vasudevan I was 5 or 6 when I first encountered it, while rummaging ...

The idea of opening a blue tin of Danish butter cookies only to find it filled with sewing supplies is basically a meme at this point. While the cookie tins in question are typically the Royal Dansk ...

If you don't give or receive a blue tin full of Danish butter cookies around Christmastime, is it even the holiday season? The metal canisters have been appearing on grandma's table for decades, and ...