Accidental food invention: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Published by Expired Foods on 11.12.2005 at 1:48 PM.
In 1930, Ruth Wakefield was making chocolate cookies at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass. When she ran out of baking chocolate, Ruth broke a bar of semi-sweet chocolate into little pieces and added them to the dough. When the cookies were baked, the chocolate hadn't melted. Instead there were little chips of chocolate throughout the cookie. Ruth was soon selling chocolate chip cookies. -Courtesy of Factmonster
