The Original Toll House Cookie

The story of these cookies, more American than apple pie, has been told again and again: It starts at the toll house in Whitman, Massachusetts, built in 1709 at the halfway point between Boston and the port of New Bedford. Ruth Wakefield and her husband bought the Toll House Inn in 1930. Mrs. Wakefield cut up a chocolate bar to incorporate into a brown sugar cookie dough. Thinking that the chocolate would melt, she was surprised when the bits held their sha