The Demise Of The Fortune Cookie
Remember fortunes? Something that foretells a new job, love or financial windfall; a prediction that eerily rings true that you’ll superstitiously keep in your wallet; or at least something that sounds funny with the words “in bed” tacked onto the end. I didn’t wrestle with that cellophane packaging for a cookie that tastes like chalk, and I certainly didn’t do it for a pep talk, a platitude, random lottery numbers or a oneword Mandarin vocab lesson.

JESSIE BODZIN

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