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Chocolate Chip Cookies History

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“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way” - P. L. Travers. Sweet treats are the key to one’s heart, as well as baking and giving. Ruth Graves Wakefield was the accidental inventor of chocolate chip cookies. She was born in East Walpole, Massachusetts, lived from June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977, and was alive for 73 years. She and her husband owned the Toll House Inn which grew to be the Nestlé Toll House company that society knows and loves today. Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie, responded with wonderment and awe of her creation, and impacted Nestlé Toll House company along with so many families who adore the delectable dessert.
Chocolate chip cookies are the most popular cookies in the America and according to various sources, they range from 1st to 3rd in the United States most popular desserts. The traditional recipe consists of a dough made of butter, white and brown sugar, Nestle …show more content…

One day in 1938, Ruth was making a batch of traditional Chocolate Butter Drop Do cookies to serve to her guests As Wakefield started to bake, she found that she was out of baker's chocolate, so instead, “Wakefield broke a bar of Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate into tiny pieces and added them to the dough expecting to create a chocolate cookie” (Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Morsels Celebrates 75th Anniversary, 2014). As the cookies baked, the chocolate did not melt into the dough as Ruth expected, but instead the chocolate chunks only softened into mushy, moist, gooey morsels nicely baked inside the cookie. This mistake cookie was originally called the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie, but is now known as the chocolate chip cookie (Krake, 2013). Instead of throwing her new creation away, thinking of it as a failure, she embraced her mistake and was so successful for

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Everyones favorite candy has always been chocolate it has been around for over thousands of years and it was changed when Milton S. Hershey started his company we all know and love ‘The Hershey Company’. ‘The Hershey’s Company’ has impacted the world, because they made the first affordable chocolate bar. First off chocolate has been around for thousands of years, but it was not truly effected until 1894 and that was when Milton S. Hershey started ‘The Hershey Company’. “The cacao tree was cultivated more than 3,000 years ago by the Maya, Toltec, and Aztec peoples, who prepared a beverage from its fruit, the cocoa bean (sometimes using it as a ceremonial drink) and also used the bean as a currency. The Maya considered chocolate to be the food of the gods, held the cacao tree to be sacred, and even buried dignitaries with bowls of the substance (along with other items deemed useful in the afterlife).”

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By the early 1890s, Milton Hershey’s Lancaster Caramel Company was an established success. Fortunately, its very success was the result of Mr. Hershey’s enthusiasm, energy and love for technology. Milton Hershey 's greatest contribution to the food industry was in the manufacture of milk chocolate. He was not, of course, the first to make it. The Swiss began manufacturing milk chocolate as a luxury item in 1876.

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Many people love chocolate, they go to the store and it's easy for them to just buy a chocolate bar. Brands like Hershey, M&M, and KitKat rely on cocoa farms to provide them cocoa, the main ingredient for chocolate. But many don't stop to think about where the chocolate they love came from and the process it goes through. Chocolate originally started as a drink. The ancient Aztecs of Mexico would brew cocoa beans to make a chocolaty delicious drink, but chocolate as we know today didn't start till the early 1800's.

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There was no outside force driving him except himself. This drive pushes him to become the creator of Hershey Chocolate, and is still known world-wide today. His success did not come right away; in fact, he started off his career with two failures. His first failure was at the age 25 when he began a cough-drop company which ended up being unsuccessful. Next, he began a candy company which also failed.

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The positives of being an individual are more present in the media, (give examples) but the negatives are normally overlooked. In the novel named The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier the main character Jerry has to deal with reality that it 's not so easy to go against the grain. The novel does an excellent job highlighting how his individuality affects his social, personal life, and the power of societal pressures and bullying are leveraged against Jerry. The first thing The Chocolate War highlights are the effects individuality has on the protagonist Jerry Renault throughout the story. After Jerry decides to not sell chocolates there seems to be a ripple effect of other students viewing him as a hero with kids slapping him on the butt and in the school that was a sign of respect.

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“They tell you to do your thing but they don’t mean it. They don’t want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. It’s a laugh, Goober, a fake. Don’t disturb the universe, Goober, no matter what the posters say.” (Cormier 259)

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In 1886 Hershey didn’t start the chocolate dream with chocolate but with caramel. Chocolate was a cuisine from Germany but the problem was that Hershey did not know how to construct chocolate. His goal was to produce chocolate perfect but still affordable for everyone. HersheyArchives.org says “As a young adult at first it seemed that Milton had no talent for business. He failed twice before he finally found success producing caramel candy.

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