Early life of ruth wakefield
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Ruth Graves Wakefield
American chef and inventor (1903–1977)
"Ruth Wakefield" redirects here. For Ruth Wakefield Cravath, the American sculptor, see Ruth Cravath.
Ruth Jones Wakefield (néeGraves; June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was an American chef, known for her innovations in the baking field. [1] Her new dessert, supposedly conceived of as she returned from a vacation in Egypt[2] Throughout her life, Wakefield found occupation as a dietitian, educator, business owner, and published author. She wrote a cookbook titled Ruth Wakefield’s, Toll House: Tried and True Recipes.[3]
Personal life
[edit]Ruth Jones Graves was born on June 17, 1903, in East Walpole, Massachusetts, to Fred Graves and Helen Vest Jones.[1] She was raised in Easton and attended the Framingham State School of Household Arts, currently Framingham State University. Upon graduation in 1924, Ruth taught home economics at Brockton High School, in addition to work
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Ruth Graves Wakefield facts for kids
Ruth Jones Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977; maiden name: Ruth Graves. She was also a dietitian, educator, business owner, and author.
Personal life
Ruth Jones Graves was born on June 17, 1903. She was the daughter of Helen Vest Jones and Fred Graves. She grew up in Easton, Massachusetts.
To further her education, Ruth attended what is now the Framingham State College, where she studied to become a dietician and a food lecturer. She graduated in 1924.
In 1926, Ruth married Kenneth Wakefield, a meatpacking executive. Together they had one son, Kenneth Donald Wakefield Jr., and one daughter, Mary Jane Wakefield.
Toll House Inn
See also: Toll House Inn
Ruth and her husband bought a tourist lodge that they called the Tollhouse Inn. They called it this because it was located on what used to be the toll road between Boston and New Bedford. Ruth cooked for the guests using her own recipes and some of her grandmother's old r
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Have you heard they were created by accident? Lies. They most certainly were not an accident.
Wakefield was born in Massachusetts in 1903. She went to college at what is now Framingham State University, getting her grad in Household Arts. (Capital H, capital A - for more information on what majoring in home economics meant in the early 1900s, please refer to my episode with Shauna Sever.)
Wakefield graduated in 1924, and for six years held various jobs in her chosen industry, working as a dietician in a hospital, teaching home ec at a high school, giving community talks on food, and, for a while, holding t