![]() ![]() She had rules about every little thing, including the exact distance from the edge of the table the silverware should be. ![]() Former employees attribute that success to Ruth Wakefield’s strict attention to detail and insistence on providing excellent service in addition to delicious meals. With Ruth Wakefield’s experience as a Home Economist and her skillful cooking, high standards, and favorite family recipes, they were successful their very first year. It was in a good location, on the road between Boston and Cape Cod. It’s time we knew the truth about the history of chocolate chip cookies.īack in 1930 Ruth Wakefield and her husband Ken bought what would become the Toll House Inn, intending to open a restaurant. The entire creation story of the Toll House Cookie™ is full of half-truths and outright misinformation. As another great inventor/discoverer once said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” Anyone else could have thought of it, but no one else did. It’s pretty bad that even the company that has made millions from Wakefield’s invention essentially makes light of her achievement by just passing it off as an accident. As if their creator wasn’t inventive enough to think of chopping chocolate and adding to cookie dough on purpose. Toll House Cookies ™ and chocolate chips are momentous achievements that have made immeasurable contributions to public welfare, culture, and job creation, yet amazingly enough, on Nestlé’s Toll House page they essentially make light of her amazing achievement by calling the cookie creation “an accident.” As if the most amazing breakthrough in cookie history just happened. Billion dollar businesses would never have been born. Half of the cookie shelf would be empty, the other half filled with various Newtons. Whole aisles in the baking section would be bare. Without chocolate chips to pave the way, there would be no butterscotch chips, no cinnamon chips, and no mint swirl mini kisses – nothing. She invented the chocolate chip cookie! Chocolate chips might not even exist without her ground-breaking work in cookie research and development. In recognition of the benefits that she has bestowed upon us by her brilliant creation, I propose that we finally give Ruth Graves Wakefield the credit she is due. Most cookie lovers will agree that the invention of chocolate chip cookies ought to be ranked near the top on the New Dish Happiness List way ahead of turducken (strange and weird and can’t easily be made at home) and perhaps just under ice cream in terms of Happiness Generation Units in recognition of their continuing contributions to the welfare of all humankind. One such great invention: The Toll House Cookie™. What if it were the invention of a new cookie? Now we’re talking happiness. Visionary philosopher Brillat-Savarin said “The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.” Most of us would agree that a wonderful culinary invention would make us happier than knowing Pluto’s planetary status.
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