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Article: Cookie business has produced a lot of dough
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 8, 1987
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Mrs. Fields Cookies. Sixteen locations in Chicago and suburbs.
Cookies Chicago, Franklin Concourse, Sears Tower, 233 S. Wacker,
876-2676; Illinois Center, 225 N. Michigan, 565-1267.
Raimondi's Pastry Shoppe, 4848 Butterfield Rd., Hillside. 449-7600.
When Mrs. Ruth Wakefield, who owned the Toll House Inn in
Whitman, Mass., created the Toll House cookie in the early '30s, she
really started something. Today, the business of selling cookies is
big business, to the sweet tune of several billion dollars a year.
The word "cookie" is from the Dutch koekje, meaning "little
cake." Cookies were a favorite treat with the early Dutch settlers
along the Eastern Seaboard. Cookbooks from the 18th ...