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Sunday, January 21, 2024

January 21, 2024

On March 20, 1939, Ruth Wakefield, who ran the popular Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, gave NestlĂ© the right to use her cookie recipe and the Toll House name. In a bargain, the price was a dollar—a dollar that Wakefield later said she never received (though she was reportedly given free chocolate for life and was also paid by NestlĂ© for work as a consultant).

- The New Yorker (December 19, 2013)

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