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My grandma sacrificed everything for my family and I. Being the lucky grandson I am I can tell my grandma about all my great adventures and achievements because she is still alive today at eighty-seven years old. My grandma is built solely on sweetness, there is no other way to describe her, when I was eight years old my family and I moved from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Madison, Wisconsin; my grandma was so afraid that she wouldn't be part of my siblings and I’s life that she dropped everything she had, left all her friends and moved to Madison with my family and I. When I think of my grandma short flashbacks will periodically pop into my head of going to the park or sleeping over at her house but every single time I will remember the times when we made chocolate cookies together or should I say cookie dough. …show more content…

Wakefield was mixing a batch of cookies from her roadside inn when she discovered that she was out of baker's chocolate. She substituted broken pieces of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate, expecting it to melt and absorb into the dough to create chocolate cookies. In surprise this discovery made her one of the most famous women inventors during her time. (source) However, in the 1930s chocolate chip cookies were not called chocolate chip cookies rather “Toll House Crunch Cookies” (source); the chocolate chip cookie was the most popular variety of cookie in America, a distinction it still holds to this day. (source) Nevertheless, the “taste of rich Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate chip cookies” (source) reminds me of the day before every holiday when my brothers and I make chocolate chip cookies with my

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