"The Fortune 500,000" by Josh Sens
San Francisco Magazine
"If I make someone feel good," she says, "I've done my job." Yang's collected works have reached millions, but she's never earned a cent for her time.
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"Sweet Inspiration" by Marco della Cava
USA Today, March 27, 2005
Indeed, fortunes inside Chinese cookies are strictly an American creation. The custom dates to the early 20th century; some say it was invented here in 1914, when a Japanese-American introduced cookies bearing thank-you notes at his Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park.
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"Odd Jobs" by Maurenn Mackey
Reader's Digest, August 2004
For four years she's been composing 100 pearls of wisdom a month for her father's company...in San Francisco, which supplies 90 percent of the fortunes used by fortune-cookie manufacturers in this country.
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"The Fortune Teller" by Mark Athitakis
SF Weekly, June 5, 2002
A former writer of fortune-cookie aphorisms pens a compelling first novel about the trials of a Montana ranch family.
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