Fortune Cookies

The fortune cookies you enjoy after your Chinese meal don't have the origins you might have imagined. To begin with, they were not invented in China and then, there is more than one manufacturer in the United States that claims to have created them for the first time, however, their origin would be older. Yasuko Nakamachi, a researcher at the University of Kanagawa almost certainly says that fortune cookies were created in Japan, according to a New York Times article. In the late 1990s, he looked outside of Kyoto, he saw that shape familiar to fortune cookies at a family-owned bakery called Sohonke Hogyokudo. The family has owned it for three generations and they point out that the cookie tradition already existed. The Japanese bakery has used the same 23 fortunes for decades ...