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The Fortune Cookie Quest

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Desserts in general taste good because of sugar and fat, and chinese desserts typically have very little of either one. The chinese didn't historically use ovens because there wasn't a lot of wood to heat ovens. But the result is not a big dessert culture. So jenny wondered, if fortune cookies are not a traditional chinese dessert, then where are they from, and how did they become so popular at american chinese restaurants?

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