Understanding the chocolate chip cookie
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
A few weeks ago my coworker Jule interviewed me about why I like to bake, and the question turned to cookies:
JULE: Chocolate chip cookie: recipe on the Tollhouse bag or something more sinister?
WAM: A bag of mix, one clover, and one bee. I rarely make cookies from scratch. I like the Tollhouse recipe but usually I’m missing something basic like brown sugar or vanilla, and then I go to buy vanilla and there’s no vanilla left. Ridiculous. On Tuesday I had to buy cinnamon for pumpkin pie, and there was ONE container of cinnamon on the shelf, and it was huge. So now I have enough cinnamon to last until 2012.
Among other things, Will Atwood Mitchell (wam) is the web content manager at