NHP celebrated National Cookie Day on Friday, December 2nd. Students brought cookies from home and NHP’s elementary students added to their stash by baking chocolate chip cookies. Staff and kids pooled them together and shared them.  A very special thank you to Parent Maria Birdsong-Reyes for the beautiful and delicious cookies she made (pictured below).  

It is estimated that in the seventh century, A.D., Persians were some of the first to grow and harvest sugarcane, which would have eventually been turned into baked goods. The movement of people for trade in war led to glory of sugar to be brought into Europe, and, by the 14th century, cookies had come there as well. Then, when Europeans migrated over to the Americas, they brought with them their sugar as well as their cookie recipes. Americans.  Then, when Europeans migrated over to the Americas, they brought with them their sugar as well as their cookie recipes. Americans eventually began developing their own types of cookies, the chocolate chip cookie, being one of the most famous at all. 

In 1987, Matt Nader of the San Francisco base blue chip cookie company created national cookie day, saying, “ It will just be a fun thing to do.”