Started by Beatriz Oliveira (@bea_oliveira) ·
fortune cookies are Japanese
Descended from a Japanese cracker. Chinese restaurants in the US took them over, partly because Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII.
4 sources · 19 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “where do fortune cookies come from”
- Ended at
- Tsujiura senbei
The Trail
- “where do fortune cookies come from” (google.com)
- Fortune cookie (en.wikipedia.org)
- Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Tsujiura senbei (en.wikipedia.org)
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