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    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fortune Cookies
    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fortune Cookies
    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fortune Cookies
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    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fortune Cookies

    By Toby Welch

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    Fortune cookies are mysterious bundles that usually come in cellophane-wrapped packages. The often-tasteless cookie has a slip of paper inside it, foretelling the eater's fortune or sharing a nugget of wisdom. Let's take a look at their history, fortune cookie trivia, how to make them, the story behind the numbers on the back, and a list of over 800 fortune cookie fortunes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherToby Welch
    Release dateApr 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301710614
    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fortune Cookies
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    Toby Welch

    After living in a dozen countries and earning an accounting degree, Toby Welch followed her dream of becoming a writer. Since penning an article in 2003 on travelling to Saudi Arabia, Toby has published over 290 articles in magazines and newspapers and another 400+ pieces online. She is addicted to the rush of creating e-books and has published 74 of them under her own name and a pseudonym. Toby finds inspiration in jazz music, impressionist artwork, and jars of Nutella.Check out the full range of her work on her website at tobywelch.ca

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      Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fortune Cookies - Toby Welch

      Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fortune Cookies

      by Toby A. Welch

      Copyright 2013 Toby A. Welch

      Smashwords Edition

      http://www.tobywelch.ca/

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover art by Chase Welch

      I went out for dinner last night to my favourite Chinese restaurant and got the cheesiest fortune in my cookie - The rubber bands are all heading in the right direction. What the heck does that mean?

      In my experience, fortune cookie messages have always predicted my future or offered me some enlightened idea about life's mysteries, calling to mind the sayings of Confucius or the feel-good ideas of Buddha. Sometimes they even contain thought-provoking nuggets of wisdom. But more often the fortunes inside the cookies just make you scratch your head.  Let’s delve into the mysterious little cellophane-wrapped packages we call fortune cookies.

      Table of Contents:

      The History of the Fortune Cookie

      800+ Fortune Cookie Sayings

      Lucky Numbers on the Fortunes

      Recipe for Fortune Cookies

      Fortune Cookie Trivia

      The History of the Fortune Cookie

      Fortune cookies are an American creation, not Chinese as most people assume.  In fact, you would be hard-pressed to find a fortune cookie in China. 

      The cookie’s invention is widely debated as many sources claim to be the creator of the fortune cookie.  The unofficial official origin (if that makes sense) as established by a mock court in 1993 in San Francisco, California, is that the fortune cookie was invented by Makoto Hagiwara. Hagiwara was a Japanese immigrant who designed the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and served fortune cookies there starting in the early 1900s.

      Other claimants of the cookie invention include David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, and Chinese railway workers in the 1800s.

      Fortune Cookie Sayings

      The following fortune cookie sayings are written as they appeared on the little white slips of paper. While some make no sense and you probably think I should have used a better spell and grammar checking tool, I assure you this is how the messages looked in the cookies.

      21st century is a good century to go to the moon.

      A bashful admirer will soon be revealed.

      A blonde from afar

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