Well, sort of. Okay, it should be.
It was, after all, on this day in 1903 that Ruth Graves Wakefield was born.
And the glorious Ms Wakefield is credited with creating the “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie.” The recipe was included in the 1938 edition of her constant best seller the Toll House Tried and True Recipes. And as best anyone can tell this was the first instance when anyone thought of including chocolate chips in their cookies.
People just really, really liked it.
According to Wikipedia, “As the popularity of the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie increased, the sales of Nestlé’s semi-sweet chocolate bars also spiked. Andrew Nestlé and Ruth Wakefield made a business arrangement: Wakefield gave Nestlé the right to use her cookie recipe and the Toll House name for one dollar and a lifetime supply of Nestlé chocolate. Nestlé began marketing chocolate chips to be used especially for cookies and printing the recipe for the Toll House Cookie on its package.”
And, well, that brings us to today, which should be International East a Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.
A day we should all carry in our hearts. No, wait. A day we should all pause and eat a cookie of the chocolate chip variety…
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