For love of chocolate

By Karen Middleton
karen@athensnews-courier.com

July 23, 2008 10:26 pm

— Remember when your mom pulled a pan of Toll House cookies out of the oven and you broke them apart and strands of piping hot chocolate briefly stretched between the halves before breaking to drip on your eager fingertips?
You don’t? Well, Pat Madsen doesn’t remember that scenario either.
Her mom boiled potatoes and roasted meat in her New Jersey home for her husband and children, but that was it.
“I turned into the baker in the family at an early age,” said Madsen. “My brothers and sisters looked to me for something sweet.”
Now, Madsen is hoping the entire Athens and Limestone County community will look to her when they want something sweet. Madsen is the proprietor of Nestlé Toll House Café in the former Guthrie’s Chicken store off U.S. 72 East.
The café opened July 17 and Madsen said Wednesday she has high hopes that the community that embraced her family when they moved to Athens four years ago from Pennsylvania with Bechtel Engineering will stop in for freshly baked cookies, ice cream, smoothies and coffee.
The Nestlé Toll House Café is the first of its kind in Alabama and one of 102 nationwide.
“It’s a fairly new concept and I just knew it would be so great for Athens,” said Madsen.

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