Do you like cookies? I love baked cookies.
Who doesn't like cookies! My favorite is chocolate chip and carmel sea salt.
The chocolate chip cookie was invited in 1938.
Really? I would have thought it would have been invented longer ago. Do you know who invented it?
Yes it was by Ruth Wakefield.
Did she run a bakery or something? I wonder how she came up with the idea.
She was a business owner but also a chef.
That makes sense. What else is a cool fact about cookies?
Fortune cookie
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Ruth cooked and served all the food and soon gained local fame for her lobster dinners and desserts. The restaurant had many people, including US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, Sr. Her chocolate chip cookies soon became very popular. She invented chocolate chip cookies around 1938.
She added chopped up bits from a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie. It is often incorrectly reported that the cookie was an accident, and that Wakefield expected the chocolate chunks to melt making chocolate cookies. In reality, Wakefield stated that she