August 4th is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, a day to honor the nation’s No. #1 homebaked cookie. But how was GI Joe responsible for its popularity?
Food is the one constant that binds us all. Every culture has its own style of cooking. We assume that staple items in our own cuisine have a deep history
Author of the article: Rita DeMontis
Publishing date: May 13, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 4 minute read • Photo by igoriss /Getty Images
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National Chocolate Chip Day is coming up this Saturday, May 15 – but, seriously, do we need a special day to recognize such a delicious occasion?
Well, the history of the chocolate chip cookie is just as delightful and delicious as the cookie itself: Back in the late 1930s, famous chef and baker Ruth Graves Wakefield started experimenting with a traditional cookie recipe to serve to the guests at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts that she and her husband owned. Wakefield added chopped up pieces of a Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bar to her traditional cookie dough, resulting in the invention of the famous Toll House Cookie – the