{"id":10359,"date":"2013-12-31T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2014-01-01T23:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T04:17:06","slug":"chocolate-chip-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/chocolate-chip-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Chip Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/123113_1305_ChocolateCh1.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Centives signs off 2013 with Jon Michaud&#8217;s article that looked at the history of chocolate chip cookies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The recipe for chocolate chip cookies was first published in 1938. It celebrated its 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary this year.<\/li>\n<li>It was invented by Ruth Wakefield who ran a restaurant in the United States that was famed for its deserts.<\/li>\n<li>Wakefield gave Nestl\u00e9 the right to use the recipe for the bargain price of $1 (which, she says, was never paid).<\/li>\n<li>The cookie soared in popularity during the Great Depression \u2013 it offered an inexpensive hand-held serving of richness and comfort that millions were having to live without.<\/li>\n<li>The Second World War further contributed to its popularity as they became an important part of care packages that were delivered to troops abroad.<\/li>\n<li>In fact it was the War that caused the cookie to go from Northeastern treat to a Pan-American phenomenon.<\/li>\n<li>In 1963 Chips Ahoy launched its line of packaged chocolate chip cookies.<\/li>\n<li>Famous Amos and Mrs. Fields opened their first stores a decade later.<\/li>\n<li>The next milestone in the history of the cookie was the 1984 debut of Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough \u2013 it soon became the company&#8217;s top brand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the enduring appeal of the cookie, the ideal way to bake a cookie, and how the place where it was invented burned down and is now occupied by a Wendy&#8217;s over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2013\/12\/sweet-morsels-a-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2013\/12\/sweet-morsels-a-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie.html\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/13\/12\/a-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie\">Kottke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the entire Centives team a Happy 2014! We hope you have an excellent (and delicious) year ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centives signs off 2013 with Jon Michaud&#8217;s article that looked at the history of chocolate chip cookies: The recipe for chocolate chip cookies was first published in 1938. It celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. It was invented by Ruth Wakefield who ran a restaurant in the United States that was famed for its deserts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-10359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/123113_1305_ChocolateCh1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions\/10361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}