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Ruth Jones Wakefield (née Graves; June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was an American chef, known for her innovations in the baking field.She pioneered the first chocolate chip cookie recipe, an invention many people incorrectly assume was a mistake. [1]
Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the word's origins beyond this are contentious. [3] Despite a popular belief that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl, early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".
Tazos started out with a set of 100 disks featuring the images of Looney Tunes characters and 124 Tiny Toons tazos in 1994. The disks were added to the products of Mexican snacks company Sabritas and were named after the expression taconazo (to kick with the heel) which was a reference to another popular school game in Mexico where children open bottles with their shoes trying to launch the ...
A close-up of a chocolate chip cookie. A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that features chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient. Chocolate chip cookies are claimed to have originated in the United States in 1938, when Ruth Graves Wakefield chopped up a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar and added the chopped chocolate to a cookie recipe; however, historical ...
Chocolate chips were created with the invention of chocolate chip cookies in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. [1] [2] (The Nestlé brand Toll House cookies is named for the inn.) The cookies were a huge ...
Entenmann's is a 127 year old company originating in New York City.William Entenmann learned the trade of baking from his father in Stuttgart, Germany, and used his acquired skills to work in a bakery in the U.S., eventually opening his own bakery in 1898 on Rogers Avenue in Brooklyn. [1]
Founder Kathleen King had previously operated a cookie company in Southampton, Kathleen's Bake Shop, which was taken over by her business partners in 1999.King regained ownership of the manufacturing facility in court but lost ownership of the company name; she reestablished her company as Tate's Bake Shop, using her father's nickname Tate, in 2000.
In 1908, Tobler and his cousin Emil Baumann, the company's production manager, created the Toblerone chocolate bar, [3] naming the product as a portmanteau combining Tobler's surname and torrone, the Italian word for honey and almond nougat. [3] Tobler applied for a patent for the Toblerone manufacturing process in Bern in 1909. [6]