who invented chocolate chip cookies

The chocolate chip cookie was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1938. She was a baker and entrepreneur who owned the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, where she created the now-famous cookie by adding chopped semi- sweet Nestlé chocolate to her cookie dough. Contrary to popular myth, Wakefield deliberately developed the recipe rather than accidentally. The cookie became highly popular and led to a lasting legacy, including a partnership with Nestlé that helped market the chocolate chips under the Toll House brand name.