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Fortune cookie says: To succeed, you must share.

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“The last time you ate Chinese food, you probably weren’t
thinking about open source development. But according to Jennifer
8. Lee, author of “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles,” the food on your
plate arrived there in precisely that way.

“General Tso’s chicken? Unrecognizable to its creator, let alone
the General’s relatives. Swap out the butter and vanilla for sesame
and miso in that most famous of Chinese desserts, the fortune
cookie, and you have something that closely resembles tsujiura
senbei, a Japanese fortune cracker. Americans will be sad to learn
that much of the rest of the world—including China—is
rather unfamiliar with this delicacy.

“So if the fortune cookie comes from Japan, and most of
American-Chinese restaurant food is foreign to the Chinese, where
did these items come from and who put them on the menu of your
local Chinese restaurant?”


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