The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book: Scrumptious

The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book: Scrumptious Recipes & Fabled History From Toll House to Cookie Cake Pie
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Full of fun facts, myths, secrets, and cookie recipes apt to make you as famous as Amos among your family and friends, The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book makes for great reading and great baking.
The advent and swift rise of the chocolate chip cookie offers some of the best stories in American myth-making and king-making. It might feel like this favorite treat is part of our national heritage, perhaps dating back to the founding fathers, but not until 1930 was the first batch impulsively baked in the kitchen of a Massachusetts inn. How quickly it became our nationâ€™s favorite is what makes the chocolate chip cookie more relentlessly American than even apple pie. Easily commodified and mass-produced, it birthed new business moguls overnight, ultimately accounting for more than half of all homemade cookies, with sales of 6 billion packaged cookies annually in the U.S.â€•itâ€™s the stuff of legend. Revisit the Toll House Inn kitchen of Ruth Wakefield, who one fateful day took an ice pick to a block of chocolate and sprinkled it into her cookie dough, spawning a national craving that continues unabated to this day. Get to know the first chocolate chip cookie-preneurs and their unlikely success stories. Did you know that Wally â€œFamousâ€ Amos was a successful music talent agent who signed Dionne Warwick and Simon and Garfunkel to recording contracts before he decided a brighter future lay in perfecting his dear auntâ€™s irresistible cookie recipe? Or that Mrs. Fields was a determined young trophy wife whose husband said her idea of trying to sell her chunky, chewy cookies would never work? And the recipes are packed into this book like brown sugar in a measuring cup, from close approximations of the original Toll House and Mrs. Fields recipes to creative variations like Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies and Pudding Chocolate Chip Cookies. Vegan, gluten-free, and low-fat/low-cal recipes are here, too. So whether you prefer yours crunchy or soft, with or without nuts, youâ€™ll be delighted by the wealth of fun facts and delicious recipes in The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Bookâ€•and youâ€™re sure to be scrambling for the pantry or nearest bakery to feed your craving. 100 Color Photos Throughout
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer Countryman Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 100 Color Photos Throughout
ReleaseDate 2013-10-07
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781581571622

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	Countryman Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	100 Color Photos Throughout
ReleaseDate	2013-10-07
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781581571622

The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book: Scrumptious Recipes & Fabled History From Toll House to Cookie Cake Pie

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