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Article: No matter how you STACK 'em; Cookies stand tall
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2001
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Cookie connoisseurs across the country always agree on one thing.
North, south, east or west - from Alaska to Florida and back -
chocolate chip cookies win first prize in the cookie popularity
contest.
An American invention dating to 1930, the famous cookie with its
blissful combination of chocolate (and sometimes nuts) in a "crisp
on the outside, soft on the inside" buttery dough is everyone's
favorite.
First baked in the 1930s for travelers stopping at the Toll House
Inn near Boston, the original chocolate chip cookie was the creation
of its proprietor, Ruth Wakefield.
While making cookies one day,. Wakefield added pieces of a semi-
sweet chocolate bar to the cookie dough. The crisp, ...