Episode 35: Chocolate Chip cookies and the Toll House Inn
What does a burning roadside inn have to do with America’s favorite cookie?
In this episode of True Crime Culinary, Leah explores the surprising history of the chocolate chip cookie — from early Dutch koekjes and twisted “jumbles” to Ruth Wakefield’s invention of the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie in 1938. Learn how a chopped Nestlé chocolate bar, an ice pick, wartime care packages, and the rise of refrigerated cookie dough helped transform a regional dessert into a national obsession.
The episode also explores:
the history of the Toll House Inn
why brown sugar changes cookie texture
how…
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