Ruth Graves Wakefield

Ruth Jones Graves Wakefield was an American chef, best known for her innovations in the baking field. Ruth pioneered the first chocolate chip cookie recipe, an invention many people incorrectly assume was a mistake. Her new dessert, supposedly conceived of as she returned from a vacation in Egypt, is the inspiration behind the massively popular Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie. Throughout her life, Ruth found occupation as a dietitian, educator, business owner, and published author, most notably of the cookbook, Ruth Wakefield’s, Toll House: Tried and True Recipes.

17 June 1903

Born on the same birth day (17 June): Carl Van Vechten • César-François Cassini de Thury • Dale C. Thomson • John Baldessari • M. C. Escher • Mark Linn-Baker • Michael Mathieu • Peter Le Cheminant • Sammy Fain • Tory Burch • Wally Wood

Born in the same month (June 1903): Alan Blumlein • Aram Khachaturian • Hans Litten • Hans Vogt (linguist) • John Dillinger • Marcia Davenport • Mary Callery • Raymond Radiguet • Samuel Rabin (artist) • Willard Harrison Bennett