Materials: Custom Engraved Silver Platter Chocolate Chip Cookies American Flag Napkins
Exhibited: VONZWECK at The BARN - Sept. 2008
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The Chocolate Chip Cookie The chocolate chip cookie is a type of drop cookie created in 1933 by Mrs. Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
The exact reasons why Mrs. Wakefield created the chocolate chip cookie are debated. In the Nestlé version of the story, Mrs. Wakefield planned to make chocolate cookies but ran out of baker's chocolate, so instead substituted bits of Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate which did not melt and blend in with the rest of the cookie as intended.
Also in the Nestlé story, the chocolate chip cookie became a popular local care package shipped to Massachusetts soldiers stationed overseas in World War II. Soldiers from other parts of the U.S. sampled these cookies and also began asking for shipments of the Toll House Inn cookies. Mrs. Wakefield was quickly inundated with recipe requests and soon the chocolate chip cookie became very popular all across the United States.
The Atomic Bomb
The atomic bomb is a type of nuclear weapon first developed and deployed by the United States during World War II. Little Boy, a uranium bomb, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945. Fat Man, a plutonium bomb, was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan Project developed the atomic bomb. The project was originally named the "Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials" but was later modified to "Manhattan Engineer District" (MED) and nicknamed "The Manhattan Project." Nuclear technology was then developed by the USSR in 1949 and, when combined with rocketry developments of the 1960’s, it became possible for both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to deliver a nuclear weapon anywhere in the world. The technologies grandfathered by the atomic bomb have since proliferated to the United Kingdom, France, China, India, South Africa, Pakistan, and Israel.
- Rob Ray
PLEASE MAKE SOME!
Recipe: Use any chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Baking Instructions: The cookies will be easiest to cut out with a cookie cutter if you prepare and bake the cookies "pan-style" instead of "drop-style." This is done by filling the bottom 1/4" of a 9x13 baking sheet with about 1/4 of your dough.
Cookie Cutter Creation: Create cookie cutters in the shape or your favorite nuclear detonation delivery device. I find "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" particularly intriguing, so I used their shapes for my cookies. It is easiest to make this cookie cutters by bending a small strip of of 1/2 inch copper strap into shape. Copper strap is available in the plumbing section of your local hardware store.
