Okay, folks, it’s time for you to declare — Not whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, an Obama fan or a McCain supporter. It is time for you to declare your cookie allegiance.

I’ll go first: oatmeal raisin. Hands down. If forced to pick a second and third choice, it would probably be preacher cookies and white chocolate-macadamia nut cookies.

October is National Cookie Month. But if ever there was a food that could support an entire year of tributes, it is the versatile and delightful cookie. Three hundred and sixty-five different cookies could easily be named for every day of this proposed National Cookie Year. And then some.

In fact, if I started naming cookie types now, it would probably take me about as long as it took Forrest Gump’s pal, Bubba, to name all the shrimp concoctions he knew.

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Another restaurant is folding this week, but they are not falling victim to low profits.

No, according to Sundance Cafe owner Sharon Gentilini, business was humming along just fine at her little Campbell Avenue lunch joint.

“We were doing excellent business here,” she said. “We did a kick-butt lunch.”

For more than a year, Sharon and her husband, Robert Gentilini, sold club sandwiches, soups and salads to the starving downtown masses. And those masses, bored with Zak’s Cafe and still mourning Angler’s departure from the West side of downtown, kept coming back.

But according to Sharon Gentilini, the Virginia Department of Health ordered the restaurant to make improvements that she was not willing to pay for herself. And Total Action Against Poverty, the owner of the building, also did not want to fund the changes, according to Dick Robers, who handles leasing for TAP.

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