Talk:Ruth Graves Wakefield

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She was a grest women who did more than cook •	Her first cookie was called the toll bake cookie •	The nestle company gave her a life time supply of chocolate •	Chocolate chip cookies are a favorite treat for people of all ages, but without the famous woman inventor Ruth Wakefield, the world might never have tasted those sweet delights. Born in 1905, Wakefield grew up to be a dietician and food lecturer after graduating from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. Along with her husband Kenneth, she bought a tourist lodge named the Toll House Inn, where she prepared the recipes for meals that were served to guests.

In 1930, Wakefield was mixing a batch of cookies for her roadside inn guests when she discovered that she was out of baker's chocolate. She substituted broken pieces of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate, expecting it to melt and absorb into the dough to create chocolate cookies. That didn't happen, but the surprising result helped to make Ruth Wakefield one of the 20th century's most famous women inventors. When she removed the pan from the oven, Wakefield realized that she had accidentally invented "chocolate chip cookies At the time, she called her creations "Toll House Crunch Cookies." They became extremely popular locally, and the recipe was soon published in a Boston newspaper. As the popularity of the Toll House Crunch Cookie increased, the sales of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bars also spiked. Andrew Nestle and Ruth Wakefield decided to come up with an agreement. Nestle would print the Toll House Cookie recipe on its package, and Wakefield would be given a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate. Due to this unexpected discovery by a famous woman inventor, the chocolate chip cookie became the most popular variety of cookie in America, a distinction it still holds to this   HEHEHEHE lots of love


 * Unsourced, copied from another site ... probably a copyright violation. -- Jibal (talk) 17:16, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Year of Birth
The Find-a-Grave link shows 1903, as does her tombstone. The categories listed at the bottom of her page shows 1903 births, so why does the article have 1905? Is there something that also shows a 1905 birth besides the unsigned tribute on the Talk page for Ruth Graves Wakefield?Jtyroler (talk) 06:19, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Not an accident
This story in Slate says that Wakefield's invention of chocolate chip cookies was not an accident. She knew how chocolate behaved when it was baked and she knew how it would come out.

The Woman Who Invented the Chocolate Chip Cookie She was a gifted cook and a savvy entrepreneur. And, despite what you may have heard, she didn’t invent it by accident. By Carolyn Wyman

The source in the current account does not seem to be a WP:RS. You can't track that story back to a primary source. --Nbauman (talk) 02:35, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

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"immense pain point", sounds like PR
Sources? This statement sounds more like PR. "Wakefield solved an immense pain point, the boringness of traditional cookies that left consumers yearning for something much greater."Webmanoffesto (talk) 20:42, 2 July 2019 (UTC)


 * where did or does it say "Wakefield solved an immense pain point the boringness of traditional cookies that left consumers yearning for something much greater." 173.242.85.221 (talk) 19:50, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Ruth Wakefield
In 1930 Ruth and her husband bought a tourist lodge passenger to pay tolls 2600:6C44:657F:FA77:98A5:76AE:2A1:8457 (talk) 23:53, 2 February 2023 (UTC)