{"id":914,"date":"2008-06-04T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/mexican-fortune-cookies-called-dichos\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T19:31:06","slug":"mexican-fortune-cookies-called-dichos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/mexican-fortune-cookies-called-dichos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican fortune cookies, called dichos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/food\/la-fo-dichos4-2008jun04,0,6918111.story\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tso-dichos.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican fortune cookies, dichos\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times food section did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/food\/la-fo-dichos4-2008jun04,0,6918111.story\">recent piece on taco-shaped fortune cookies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Tom Miller writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dichos, as the cookies are called, have been appearing at restaurants &#8212; Mexican and others &#8212; in southern Arizona in a haphazard pattern in which word-of-mouth has far outpaced formal distribution. Raul and Marina Monta\u00c3\u00b1o, the Douglas, Ariz., couple who came up with the idea after a Chinese meal in March 2007, have been fielding calls for their product since they opened for business just over four months ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The machine they describe actually sounds just like the fortune cookie machines, made by Yong Lee, outside Boston (thought they don&#8217;t mention him by name).<\/p>\n<p>Dichos, means &#8220;sayings&#8221; in Spanish. Mexican-Americans are not the only ones to have a cookie-fortune-delivery device. There are &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonnisfoods.com\/oct21.php \">Mama Says Biscotti<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times food section did a recent piece on taco-shaped fortune cookies. As Tom Miller writes, Dichos, as the cookies are called, have been appearing at restaurants &#8212; Mexican and others &#8212; in southern Arizona in a haphazard pattern in which word-of-mouth has far outpaced formal distribution. Raul and Marina Monta\u00c3\u00b1o, the Douglas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortune-cookies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-eK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}