Eleanor Traubman of Creative Times hasn’t missed one of the Sunday brunches. Today she read about cookie baker, Phil Solomita:

I had the good fortune of meeting Pete while performing my monthly duties as a cart walker at the Park Slope Food Coop. While escorting Pete and his full shopping cart to his car (so that I could take the empty cart back to the store), I thought to myself: “This guy seems like an artist.”

So I asked him what he did for work. “I’m a baker,” he replied. “I make cookies and sell them to restaurants and cafes.” “Oh, wow,” I said, trying to think of venues for his goods. “Do you know about the cookies they sell at Naidre’s [a Brooklyn café]?” I asked.

“Yeah, those are my cookies – Little Buddy cookies.” What! I couldn’t believe it! My favorite neighborhood cookies came from this guy.