"The only book you'll ever need to create perfectly delicious cakes, pastries, biscuits, breads, pizzas and desserts time and time again. Featuring more than 80 recipes!"--back cover.

Everyone loves chocolate chip cookies! But not everyone knows where they came from. Meet Ruth Wakefield, the talented chef and entrepreneur who started a restaurant, wrote a cookbook, and invented this delicious dessert. But just how did she do it, you ask? That's where things get messy!