Cookies hold universal appeal. Their aroma beckons, warm from the oven, promising delicious comfort—a little sweet treat to brighten the moment.
Ruth Wakefield knew this truth, often serving cookies to guests at her Toll House Inn in Whitman, MA. And when the chef strategically added a chopped Hershey chocolate bar to her cookie dough in 1938, a legend was born. Today, chocolate chip cookies play a dominant role in the $9.6 billion U.S. retail cookie category.