A restored sign at the original site of the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. The Toll House, which burned down in 1984, was where Ruth Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie in the 1930s. (Nick O’Malley, MassLive)
WHITMAN — The history of the chocolate chip cookie is one where it is difficult to separate fact from fiction. For every morsel of truth, there are countless forms of fictional crumbs to sort through.
The chocolate chip cookie was invented in the 1930s by Ruth Graves Wakefield in the little town of Whitman at the Toll House Restaurant — hence the “Toll House cookie.”
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