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Lemon bars, or lemon squares, are popular dessert bars to make for bake sales, holidays, and  birthdays. These delicious dessert bars are great to eat year round, and are often featured at many bakeries and coffee shops. Whatever you call them — bars or squares — you may have wondered about the origin of these luscious treats. The history of lemon squares doesn’t date as far back as you might think, although the ingredients were developed in Renaissance times. Many cultures across history have enjoyed lemons and featured lemons prominently in their cuisine. Lemons have been used both to flavor...

What is it about chocolate chip cookies? No matter how you make them – whether large or small, traditional, vegan, paleo, or keto; chewy or crispy; homemade or store bought, the chocolate chip cookie is America’s favorite. The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1938 by Ruth Wakefield who, with husband Kenneth, ran the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts from 1930 to 1967. The cookie caught on so fast that Marjorie Husted, whom you may know as Betty Crocker (yes, there was a real person behind Betty!) featured it on her radio show. Oh, how we love our chocolate...