For years, Jeremy Snyder collected chocolate chip cookie recipes from chocolate chip bags, cookbooks, newspapers, magazines, recipe websites and blogs. As the recipes piled up, he wondered which one produces the best cookie. To answer this question, he and his family had a bake-off, serving 52 pounds of cookies to family and friends. Jeremy will discuss the favored recipes, how the chocolate chip cookie reflects American culture and how to engage children in science at home. When he's not baking cookies, Jeremy is a program manager in the field of energy efficiency and produces videos and multimedia at Science in a Nutshell Productions.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx.