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Learning about Food Invention

A Sweet Invention by Tracy Vonder Brink talks about how Ruth invented the chocolate chip cookie. In the 1930s, Ruth owned the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. At the time, chocolate was used in desserts but always melted and mixed in, so she sprinkled the chocolate on the cookie. The cookies were a hit and were put on store shelves, making them more popular because more people now had access to the chocolate chip cookies.


Learning how foods are made is important. Learning that is important because if you can pinpoint where your food was produced, you can make more informed decisions to maximize quality, freshness, and nutritional value. You can also help support local economies through your purchases. An example in the story is when the recipe was put on the cookie wrappers, and people started making their cookies, boosting their popularity. Knowing how foods are made keeps people safe by warning them of what might happen if somebody eats them. Knowing how the foods you eat are made can keep you safe, and you can help economies. Therefore, knowing how foods are made is important.


My favorite cookie is the chocolate chip cookie. Aside from the emotional comfort that chocolate chip cookies may provide, there may be scientific explanations for why we salivate for them. Some research suggests that ingredients in chocolate chip cookies may have additive properties. In the text, people loved the cookies Ruth made, proving that the chocolate chip cookie is the best dessert of all time. Not only are the cookies tasty, they were also invented at a good time because one of the things that boosted the cookies’ popularity was WW2, the cookies were sent to the soldiers if chocolate chip cookies appeared at a different time they might not have gotten that boost. Because of that, my favorite cookie is the chocolate chip cookie.


Before I read this passage, I used to think that the chocolate chip cookie was invented because somebody spilled a can of crushed chocolate on some cookies. I thought that was how the cookie was invented because the chocolate looks like it has been thrown on the cookie after it’s been smashed to bits so I thought it was made like that. The text said that the chocolate was put on the cookie after an ice pick crushed it so my guess is close to the answer. It's easy to see how chocolate chip cookies have become a symbol of home and comfort. They are often associated with memories of childhood and home-baked treats. This could be one reason why they remain so popular today, even in times of prosperity. Chocolate chip cookies are an important part of our lives and they give us comfort and even though the invention of it was an accident we all love this cookie.


We can all agree that the invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie is important; whether it is about how the cookie was invented or how I think this cookie was invented this cookie will always have a place in people’s hearts. The chocolate chip cookie gave comfort to Americans right after the Great Depression and also the flavor variety and combinations are practically endless so we can have more varieties of the cookies. Chocolate Chip Cookies are now an important part of our lives.


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