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Article: Bogus cookie recipe puts a chip on baker's shoulder
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 11, 1986
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Mrs. Fields is no blabbermouth.
The recipe that yields the warm, chewy Mrs. Fields cookie is the
basis of a multimillion dollar cookie empire. For that reason, it is
unlikely that Debbi Fields, the California homemaker who introduced
her saucer-sized chocolate chip cookie to the public in 1977, would
disclose her recipe to anyone ever.
Yet, a recipe alleged to be Mrs. Fields' is showing up on office
bulletin boards, in newspaper food sections and in personal letters
crisscrossing the country. And the story that accompanies the recipe
has prompted Mrs. Fields to post disclaimers in her stores and on her
familiar red-and-white cookie bag. It features, in large type, the
words, "The Rumor ...