Marissa Rothkopf Bates is the creator and host of The Secret Life of Cookies podcast. A professionally trained chef and journalist, she writes for The New York Times, Newsweek, Food52, and Publishers Weekly. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
""Everybody loves a chocolate chip cookie. And who better to write about it than the cookie maker par excellence, Marissa Rothkopf Bates?"" -- Simon Majumdar, Food Network host and judge ""Marissa is brilliant, clever and creative. Combined with her passion for cookies, her book is like none other."" -- Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of The Cake Bible ""Did you not know that you need infinite recipes for chocolate chip cookies? Because you do, and the inimitable Marissa Rothkopf is at your service."" -- Mollie Katzen, author of Moosewood Cookbook ""Marissa Rothkopf is the world's first public intellectual devoted primarily to the subject of chocolate chip cookies."" -- David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula