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Happy Birthday Ruth Wakefield!
Let’s take a moment to honor one of America’s gastronomic heroes today. This woman has brought so much joy and deliciousness in our lives that I believe her birthday should be a national holiday, or at least a national baking day. Ruth Wakefield created the chocolate chip cookie. In 1930, Ruth and her husband…
Read MoreHappy Fig Newton Day
January 16th was National Fig Newton Day. Let’s celebrate with some figgy facts. In 1891, Charles Roser, a baker who happened to love figs, invented a machine that squirted fig paste into dough before baking. Since the current nutrition guidelines of the times encouraged fruit and biscuits on a daily basis, this was the…
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