How to celebrate Chocolate Chip Day (Thursday, May 15)? Read The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book, of course! You could also or alternatively watch the new History Channel special on chocolate chip cookies featuring moi, read My Slate essay about cookie inventor Ruth Wakefield, get my advice on upping your chocolate chip cookie-making game in this Bottom Line Personal article, learn 19 Surprising Facts about the chocolate chip cookie I assembled for BuzzFeed or make the Famous Amos cookie recipe in my Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat remembrance of that late, great chocolate chip cookie entrepreneur.