You drive a crossover car, you listen to crossover musicians but are you also eating crossover foods? Chances are good that you will be. The lines are blurring between a cookie being just a cookie and a cracker being more than a cracker. Manufacturers are now producing foods such as snickerdoodles with a savory side and crackers that don’t need to stand under cheese or next to wine to be enjoyed.
Cookie manufactures are trying to sneak a sweet side into savory situations. Salem Baking Co. of Winston-Salem, N.C., has been experimenting with unique flavor combinations to make some interesting cookie varieties. Its Moravian Cookie line of flat, crisp cookies includes distinctive ingredient combinations like Ginger Spice, Blood Orange and Tangerine Orange. These, however, are just the beginning.