It's National Chocolate Chip Day!
Try one of these great recipes to celebrate.
Looking for a reason to celebrate today, amid this dreary weather? May 15th provides all sorts of opportunities! Not only is it National Sea Monkey Day and Relive Your Past Day, but it's also National Chocolate Chip Day today. (Like anyone needs a reason to eat chocolate?) Chocolate chips are an essential ingredient in a wide range of tasty goods—from chocolate chip cookies to chocolate chip muffins. They got their start in the 1930s, when Ruth Graves Wakefield concocted the original chocolate chip cookie at her Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass. She had planned to bake chocolate cookies for her guests, but she didn't have enough baker's chocolate. As a result, she substituted a chopped up semi-sweet chocolate bar, discovering that the …
DAVID BERGER
5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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