The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

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    • Archive for January 16th, 2008

    Fortune Cookies are really from Japan.

    Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

    So today I have a story in The New York Times that points, persuasively, that fortune cookies originate not from China, but from Japan. There is neat slideshow by Sylvia Rupani-Smith and video by Sean Patrick Farrell. This was probably the most surprising outcome from the research of my book, and it is one of […]

    How did Japanese fortune cookies end up in Chinese restaurants?

    Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

    So how did Japanese fortune cookies end up in Chinese restaurants? That’s a bit of a mystery. This is what we do know, based on interviews with fortune cookie makers and articles written around the time. Turns out it’s relatively easy to trace the path of fortune cookies back to World War II, when they […]