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

Copyright 2014 by Carolyn Wyman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wyman, Carolyn.
The great American chocolate chip cookie book / Carolyn Wyman. First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-58157-162-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-581-57731-0 (e-book)
1. Chocolate chip cookies. I. Title.

TX772.W94 2013
641.8654--dc23

2013028201

The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book
978-1-58157-162-2

Published by The Countryman Press, P.O. Box 748, Woodstock, VT 05091
Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110
Printed in the United States of America

Permissions and Credits
All text and photos by Carolyn Wyman except for the following photographs or specified illustrations, text, recipes, and trademarks for which grateful acknowledgment is made. Courtesy Nestl: 6, 8 middle, 10 left, 24 bottom right, 31, 33 left and right, 59 bottom right, 65, 73, 86, 92 photo and recipe, 122, 123 photo and recipe, 137 recipe, 139 photo and recipe, 156 photo and recipe, 158 recipe, 159 illustration, 170. NESTL and TOLL HOUSE are registered trademarks of Societe des Produits Nestl S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, and are used with permission.; p. 8 bottom: Doonesbury 1970 G. B. Trudeau. Reprinted with permission of Universal Uclick. All rights reserved; p. 10: Chips Ahoy is a registered trademark of Kraft Foods Global Brands. Otis Spunkmeyer is a registered trademark of Aryzta LLC. McDonalds is a registered trademark of McDonalds Corp. p. 11: Famous Amos is a registered trademark of the Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Co.; Stonehill College Archives and Historical Collections/Stanley A. Bauman Photograph Collection: 19, 20, 21 left, 24 middle, 36; Carol Goldman: 1, 11 top, 118; Kathleen King/Tates Bake Shop: 10 bottom right and 85 bottom left (photos by Ben Fink), 106 (photo by Jim Lennon), 108 and 109 (photo by Alexandra Rowley); Scott Blackwell/Immaculate Baking: 13 bottom, 172174; Blossom Gica: 14, 49, 128, 140, 142; p. 18: Original courtesy Carol Cavanagh; Originals courtesy Mary Alice Kirby: 22, 23 and 26 bottom; p. 30: Bakers is a registered trademark of Kraft Foods Inc.; General Mills Archives: 32, 41, 58; General Mills Marketing Inc.: 64, 153 recipe and photo. Betty Crocker, Gold Medal, and Cookie Crisp are registered trademarks of General Mills, Inc. Pillsbury, Bake-Off and the Doughboy are registered trademarks of the Pillsbury Co.; p. 37: Photo by Mark Garfinkel; pp. 3839: Essay by Richmond Talbot; Debbi Fields Rose: 40, 47, 50 right, 66 middle, 120; Wally Amos: 42, 43 upper left, 45, 46; p. 43 lower right: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 19451989 negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24.01.05, bestanddeelnummer 919-3036. Wikimedia Commons (p.d.); p. 47: Mrs. Fields is a registered trademark of Mrs. Fields Brand Inc.; p. 50 left: Photo of Waikiki Food Pantry Express store blessing courtesy Sullivan Family of Companies; p. 51: Davids Cookies; p. 52: Chester Higgins Jr./New York Times/Redux; p. 55: Grandmas is a registered trademark of Frito-Lay, Inc.; p. 57: Davie Hinshaw/The Charlotte Observer; p. 61: Pepperidge Farm, Inc.; pp. 6263: Elaine Nadel, donations for aspiring entrepreneurs can be sent to the Richard Edmund LaMotta Foundation, P.O. Box 309, Mount Kisco, N.Y. 10549; Marcia Snow: 66 left (photo by Dana Edmunds); p. 66 right: Ron Hester; Linda Rawlings: 71 upper right, 72; p. 74: Pamela Weekes; p. 76: David Leite (photo by EvanJoseph.com); p. 79 top: Guittard Chocolate Company; p. 79 bottom: Calvin and Hobbes 1993 Watterson. Distr. by Universal Uclick. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved; p. 80 Scott Samet; p. 81: Ben & Jerrys Homemade, Inc.; p. 82: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite; p. 85 right: Lance Private Brands, Div. of Snyders Lance, Inc.; p. 87: recipe inspired by Cookie Cake Pie in CakeSpy Presents Sweet Treats for a Sugar-Filled Life by Jessie Oleson and on www.cakespy.com; Linda Campanelli: 89, 90; Toni M. Bumzy Young: 91 (photo by Roland Paris); p. 93: Kirk Captain Cookie Francis; p. 96: Barbara ONeill/The Cookie Studio; p. 97: Derby-Pie is a registered trademark of Kerns Kitchen; Kir Jensen: 107 (photo by Antoinette Bruno of StarChefs), 111 photo (by Lisa Warninger) and recipe; Metropolitan Bakery: 110, 114 photo (Kyle Born) and recipe (James Barrett); p. 113: Ricki Krupp/Rickis Cookie Corner; p. 115: Tiffany Taylor Chen; p. 117: Karen Larson; p. 125: recipe courtesy Claudia Fleming; p. 175: Angela Wiese for Ripon Chamber of Commerce; p. 177: Sesame Workshop; p. 178: got milk? ad from the California Milk Processor Board and Goodby Silverstein & Partners (photo Terry Heffernan); Lucy Mathers: 180, 182 photo and recipe; Cody Downard for Beaver Creek: 179, 181; p. 184: Recipe courtesy Paige Isbutt; p. 185: George Silk/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images; p. 186: Peanuts Peanuts Worldwide LLC. Dist. by Universal Uclick. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved; DoubleTree is a registered trademark of Hilton Hospitality, Inc.

For James Dad Wyman, the block off whichI am the grateful (nonchocolate) chip

I ve eaten more chocolate chip cookies in my lifetime than any other single food. Home-baked and store-bought, from fancy bakeries and modest bodegas, crispy and cakey, with coffee for breakfast and milk for dessert, Ive hardly ever met a chocolate chip cookie I didnt like. It is my favorite food by far.

Nestl Original Toll House Cookies

Im not alone in this. Im not even in the minority. Chocolate chip cookies are indisputably Americas favorite, accounting for more than half of all cookies baked at home, 6 billion packaged cookies sold annually at U.S. supermarkets, and selling at four times the rate of any other cookie at the Cookie Studio in Atlanta, Georgia, and most other bakeries and cookie stores around the country. Its among only four foods acceptable to even the pickiest eaters (the other three are fried chicken, French fries, and macaroni and cheese), according to a 2002 University of Pennsylvania study (if youre looking for a sure hit for the next potluck). Its so popular that a defining statement of the profile 60 Minutes did on the retirement of famous curmudgeon Andy Rooney was a clip of him saying, You know one thing I dont like? Chocolate chip cookies.

Early Doonesbury strip that speaks to the universal appeal of this cookie

The chocolate chips popularity has even spawned spinoff megahits like chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.