By: Danielle Ulman

All of our newsmaker sessions at The Daily Record have been great, because they allow us to sit down for extended conversations with some of the state’s biggest names in business, law and politics.

The interviews give us a sense of the people behind the titles.

We’ve sat down with Dick Cass, president of the Ravens; Gov. Martin O’Malley; Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake; Phoebe Haddon, dean of the University of Maryland Law School; and Mayo Shattuck, CEO of Constellation Energy Group, just to name a few.

All of our guests have been great, but last week’s session raised the bar. Newsmaker Mark Fetting, CEO and chairman of Baltimore’s Legg Mason Inc., brought us cookies.

And not just any cookies. Deliciously flaky and airy cookies and sweet and gooey macaroons from a local business, the Roland Park Deli and Bakery. Tucked away on the side of the quaint cedar shake Roland Park shopping center (believed to be the first shopping center in the country), the deli’s desserts are divine.

Fetting said he brings a box of the cookies and macaroons into his office every week. We were told to help ourselves, but to leave some for his staff — otherwise he might get booed out of the office.