Transcript: How to Bake a Better Chocolate Chip Cookie

GUY RAZ
NPR Talk of the Nation
07-10-2008
How to Bake a Better Chocolate Chip Cookie

Host: GUY RAZ
Time 2:00-3:00 PM


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GUY RAZ, host:

If you opened the food section of the New York Times yesterday, you were probably tortured by a giant photo of perfectly golden, gooey, chocolate chip cookies, the king of cookies. They were invented 80 years ago by Ruth Graves Wakefield, the owner of the Tollhouse Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. Now, the story goes that she accidentally dropped pieces of chocolate into her butter drop cookie batter, and the rest, they say, is culinary history. Well, 80 years on, bakers have been trying to perfect the chocolate chip cookie, and it seems, at last, ...

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