Pepperidge Farm was a real place, and it's where Margaret Rudkin started a baked goods empire in the 1930s. During a trip to Belgium, Rudkin became enamored with fancy chocolate cookies made for the ...

Pepperidge Farm has an impressive pedigree dating back to 1929, when founder and mother Margaret Rudkin moved with her family to an estate with the same name in Connecticut and began experimenting ...

IN the folklore of the U.S. food industry, mouths water and registers jingle when any product—from maple syrup to dog biscuits—is endowed with the nostalgic aura of the “old-fashioned.” No one has ...