The Moravian cookie – those thin, crisp ginger or sugar cookies that grace holiday tables around the world this time of year – has likely gone farther than any Moravian settler ever imagined.
These cookies were once treats baked only by Moravians, a small group of pre-Reformation Protestants who settled in North Carolina in the mid-1700s after escaping religious persecution in what is now the Czech Republic. They built the town of Salem, which merged with Winston in 1913.
Winston-Salem is now the the epicenter of Moravian cookie production, with more than 1.1 million pounds baked in the area every year. And those cookies – the Pringles of holiday baked goods – are sold, shipped and enjoyed worldwide.
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