The original chocolate chip cookie was the invention of Ruth Graves Wakefield, who, with her husband, ran the popular Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, in the 1930s. After being in the ...
On March 10, 1975, when Wally Amos opened Famous Amos, a shop dedicated solely to selling cookies at the corner of Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard and Formosa Avenue, it was an improbable idea in an ...