Today I Found Out
Who Really Invented the Fortune Cookie? (2015x83)
Yayınlanma tarihi: Tem 21, 2015
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The commonly held notion that Fortune Cookies were invented in China typically comes from the fact that they are primarily served in Americanized Chinese restaurants. However, you will not find fortune cookies in actual Chinese restaurants, nor will you find historical records of a similar food item in China. The largest manufacturer of fortune cookies, Wonton Food, based in New York, even once tried to introduce fortune cookies to the Chinese in the late 1980s. After three years, they gave up, as they simply weren’t a popular food item there.
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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/fortune-cookies-were-invented-in-japan-not-china/
Resources/Further Reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html#axzz0yYTnGvdFhttp://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html#axzz0yYTnGvdF
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/dining/16fort.html?_r=1
http://www.fortunecookiemachine.com/about-sci-tech.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_sueyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/31/obituaries/edward-louie-is-dead-cookie-pioneer-was-69.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Theater_of_Operations
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http://media.discovernikkei.org/articles/2439/Yasuko%20Nakamachi.jpg
http://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/tsujiura-senbei.jpg
http://postalmuseum.si.edu/pacificexchange/images/ppc_0114a.jpg
https://www.med-dept.c
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