These larger, darker version of the fortune cookie have been made by small Japanese bakeries decades before they were ever known in America—or China. So far, some of the earliest known mentions of them are in literature and art dating back to 1878, while the earliest mentions of fortune cookies in the United States are from 1907–1914. Other mentions of the fortune cookie are found in undated works by a Japanese author who lived from 1790–1843.
And while they might have been invented there, fortune cookies aren’t even that popular in Japan. When university graduate student Yasuko Nakamachi published her findings on the source of the fortune cookie, it didn’t even get much press.
So how did they become synonymous with Chinese cuisine in America?
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