Fire up the oven and get creative with your holiday baking. 

• Kat Lieu offers 108 Asian cookie recipes that you can bring to your next cookie exchange.

• Maureen Abood unlocks memories as she finds inspiration in the Lebanese bakeries of Dearborn, Michigan.

• An American baker living in Berlin, Laurel Kratochvila dips into the Polish canon with black breads, bagels, sour rye breads studded with caraway, and challah. 

• Jūrgen Krauss, everyone's favorite trombone-playing Great British Bake Off contestant, prepares for the holidays with traditional German Christmas treats.

• LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison visits Sora Craft Kitchen, a Turkish restaurant in DTLA.

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