---DadNormanwould have been 100 in 2023. Lucky to survive world war 2 as teen navigator allied bomber command Burma, he probably found The Economist's most exciting scoop since founderJames Wilsonwas sent by Queen Victoria 1859 to CharterBankfor India's people. Death by diarrhea after James'...
One such happy accident occurred in 1938 when Ruth Graves Wakefield (then 33 years old), a home economist and the owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, was experimenting with a new recipe for cookies. Incidentally, the word cookie is derived from the Dutch word “koekje” ...