Hey Fellow Monks

I want some advice regarding cookies, I have read some information on how to create them using the joys that is CPAN, but I would like to know the best module to use, and some sample code to write the cookie and any data in it

An example of what i want to do is:
Cookie Name: barrys_cookie
Data:

item_1	yes
item_2	Fudge
item_3	((Unix or normal mysql)Timestamp)

Having read CPAN, (i cant remember which module it was), i usually have trouble trying to translate CPAN in to effective code