What is the history of chocolate chip cookies?

The chocolate-chip cookie celebrated its seventy-fifth birthday this year. Unlike the anonymous inventors of such American staples as the hot dog, the grilled-cheese sandwich, and the milkshake, the creator of the chocolate-chip cookie has always been known to us. read more

A chocolate chip cookie with chocolate dough, sprinkled with powdered sugar and paired with milk. A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that originated in the United States and features chocolate chips (small morsels of sweetened chocolate) as its distinguishing ingredient. read more

The chocolate chip cookie was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield , owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachussets. She used broken chunks of a Nestle chocolate bar. Her recipe was included in the 1938 edition of her cookbook. read more

The history of chocolate chip cookies, to me, is far more important than who invaded whom and when. ? The cookie came into being by accident. In 1930, dietician Ruth Graves Wakefield (1905-1977) and her husband, Kenneth, purchased a Cape-Cod style house halfway between Boston and New Bedford, Massachusetts, just outside the town of Whitman. read more