Confucius Fortune Cookie say:
"You will find the source of your fortune... in bed Japan."
Yes, it turns out that Chinese Fortune cookies originated from slightly further to the east than previously thought - researcher Yasuko Nakamachi has uncovered the genesis of the fortune cookie in C.19th Japan.
"Her prime pieces of evidence are the centuries-old small family bakeries making obscure fortune cookie-shaped crackers by hand near a temple outside Kyoto. She has also turned up many references to the cookies in Japanese literature and history, including an 1878 etching of a man making them in a bakery - decades before the first reports of American fortune cookies."
Full article by Jennifer Lee, available from the New York Times online here.
Yes, it turns out that Chinese Fortune cookies originated from slightly further to the east than previously thought - researcher Yasuko Nakamachi has uncovered the genesis of the fortune cookie in C.19th Japan.
"Her prime pieces of evidence are the centuries-old small family bakeries making obscure fortune cookie-shaped crackers by hand near a temple outside Kyoto. She has also turned up many references to the cookies in Japanese literature and history, including an 1878 etching of a man making them in a bakery - decades before the first reports of American fortune cookies."
Full article by Jennifer Lee, available from the New York Times online here.