My 15-Year Quest For The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie—And How To Find Your Own I experimented my way through six recipes and managed to find a recipe to suit every cookie lover’s unique needs. Isabel B. Slone Updated (Photo: iStock) I can still remember the first time I tasted it. Warm, crisp and brown on the outside with a perfectly chewy inside and a faint whiff of earthy spice. In high school, an ill-fated stint in the drama club led me to running lines at a classmate’s house, where I found myself devouring the most perfect chocolate chip cookie I had ever tasted, freshly baked by my classmate’s mom.