The Week in Food
Thank This Lady for Chocolate Chip Cookies
© Con Poulos
The Week in Food looks at noteworthy food or food-related inventions, announcements and other "firsts" throughout history.
Chewy, crumbly and often crispy too, chocolate chip cookies are an obsession of first-time bakers and experts. But the perfect and seemingly obvious combination of semisweet chocolate bits and sweet, buttery dough is actually the result of a baking accident by a woman born this week, on June 17, in 1903.
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