Viennese Crescents - the cookie that started it all.

I was recently asked the question, "When and how did you start baking?"  I had my hands full of cookie sheets I was shuffling in and out of the oven, a mixer buzzing in the background and sticky hands that could hardly hold the phone.  I remember rattling something off the top of my head, but afterwards I couldn't help but think there was a bit more to the story.I wasn't always a cookie