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Article: Fortune Cookies?(Recipe)
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- Calliope
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- October 1, 1999
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YOU'RE IN LUCK
Today is your lucky day.
This prediction found inside a fortune cookie might thrill a superstitious person, but most of us take the contents of these crispy treats less seriously. After snapping them open, we just talk and laugh about their mysterious predictions before we begin to munch. Puzzling out what possible connection there might be between each message and the person who discovers it is a tradition for many diners in Chinese restaurants.
Yet fortune cookies are not really Chinese! They are an American creation, most probably the idea of Seichi Kito, a Japanese baker who immigrated to California more than 100 years ago. ...