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Ruth Graves Wakefield
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Ruth Jones Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977; maiden name: Ruth Graves) was an American chef, best known as the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie. She was also a dietitian, educator, business owner, and author.
Ruth Jones Graves was born on June 17, 1903. She was the daughter of Helen Vest Jones and Fred Graves. She grew up in Easton, Massachusetts.
To further her education, Ruth attended what is now the Framingham State College, where she studied to become a dietician and a food lecturer. She graduated in 1924.
In 1926, Ruth married Kenneth Wakefield, a meatpacking executive. Together they had one son, Kenneth Donald Wakefield Jr., and one daughter, Mary Jane Wakefield.
Ruth and her husband bought a tourist lodge that they called the Tollhouse Inn. They called it this because it was located on what used to be the toll road between Boston and New Bedford. Ruth cooked for the guests using her own recipes and some of her grandmother's old recipes that were a smash hit and grew the Inn's dining room from seven tables to sixty. Her recipes were so popular that she released multiple cookbooks, the most popular being a cookbook titled Ruth Wakefield's Tried and True Recipes in 1931.
Wakefield identified a lack of diversity in her Inn's cookie offerings. Her solution was to experiment with semi-sweet chocolate to create a new cookie flavor. The cookie was invented in 1938; it became so popular that it was featured in newspapers, and the Wakefields received countless letters from people requesting the recipe and the Toll House Cookie became the most popular dessert of the time.
A myth holds that Wakefield accidentally developed the cookie, and that she expected the chocolate chunks would melt, making chocolate cookies. That is not the case; Wakefield stated that she deliberately invented the cookie. She said, "We had been serving a thin butterscotch nut cookie with ice cream. Everybody seemed to love it, but I was trying to give them something different. So I came up with Toll House cookie.
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