First in the tastebuds of Americans is the chocolate chip cookie, created in the late 1930s when Ruth Grace Wakefield who had a degree in household arts, made what she called Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies. These were tiny, about the size of a quarter. From 1930-1967, she and her husband Kenneth owned and operated the Toll House Inn and Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, a spot well known for its fabulous desserts.
According to one story, the cookie resulted after “Wakefield unexpectedly ran out of nuts for a regular ice-cream cookie recipe. In desperation she replaced them with chunks chopped out of a bar of Nestlé’s bittersweet chocolate.”
Her recipe became very popular. She included it in her first cookbook “Tried and True Recipes” where she added chopped pieces of Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar to a cookie dough, creating the chocolate chip concept. Even the Betty Crocker Radio show featured this new recipe.
On March 20, 1939 Wakefield gave Nestlé the right to use her cook...