The Definitive History of Dorie Greenspan’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Definitive History of Dorie Greenspan’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you ask James Beard Award–winning cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, she’ll tell you that every chocolate chip cookie recipe can be traced back to that back-of-the-bag chocolate chip cookie recipe, the mother of all chocolate chip cookies.
“Everything starts with the Toll House cookie,” Greenspan told me recently, explaining what delights her most about the form and function of chocolate chip cookies—their simplicity, their flexibility, and their nostalgic flavor profile. “There are things that can be changed in chocolate chip cookies and still have it be recognizable as a chocolate chip cookie. And the form is so delightfully play-around-able.”