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Article: COOKING UP A FORTUNE MAKE YOUR OWN FORTUNE COOKIES AT HOME OR INSERT PERSONALIZED MESSAGES INTO COMMERCIALLY MADE COOKIES.(TASTE)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2008
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Byline: SANDRA KALLIO skallio@madison.com 608-252-6181
There is a reason Chinese patrons generally aren't served fortune cookies after a meal in a Chinese-American restaurant. The dessert is not Chinese. Until recently, fortune cookies were thought to have originated as a San Francisco treat...or maybe a cookie created in Los Angeles. Now the New York Times has detailed the work of a graduate student from Kanagawa University outside Tokyo pointing to Japan as the source.
Whatever the origin, the fortune cookie business remains lucky, with about 3 billion cookies made each year, mostly in U.S. factories. Most contain traditional messages, but customers ...