THE CHOCOLATE HIP COOKIE 1933
In 1933, Ruth Wakefield, who ran the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass., invented one of our most loved comfort foods. Her “butter drop do” cookie recipe, called for baker’s chocolate, which Wakefield didn’t have on hand. She chopped up a chocolate bar instead, thinking it would melt into the cookie. Nestlé was so impressed with the cookie’s success that it made a deal with Ruth: a lifetime of chocolate in return for permission to print the recipe.