Fun Fact: Chocolate Chip Cookie Inventor Went to Framingham State

FRAMINGHAM, MA - Chocolate chip cookies are an American staple and they were born right here in the Framingham area.

Ruth Graves Wakefield came up with the delicious treats in the 1930s, MIT reported. The cookie inventor graduated from Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts (now Framingham State) in 1924 and went on to work as a dietitian and food lecturer.

Wakefield purchased the Toll House Inn in Whitman with her husband in 1930. The pair served homemade meals to inn guests and soon people from all over the area developed a craving for Wakefield's desserts, MIT reported.

Wakefield was especially known for her butter drop cookies and one day added in pieces of a chocolate bar given to her by Andrew Nestle. She thought the chocolate would melt like baker's chocolate and was surprised to find it instead became delicious and creamy, MIT reported.

The recipe was an instant hit and soon newspapers all over the area were publishing it, MIT reported. Wakefield continued to bake chocolate chip cookies until her death in 1977.

The Toll House Inn operated as a restaurant until it tragically burned down in 1985 after a grease fire broke out in the kitchen, according to a newspaper story from that time.

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