Yesterday while I was fighting the traffic on my way home, an NPR interview with author Jenifer Lee caught my attention. In her new book (http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com) due March 2008, she answers many interesting questions about Chinese food. One of them is "Fortune cookie is not Chinese", which surprises the author herself (as an American born Chinese, ABC for short) before she started to write the book.Now being so used to fortune cookies every time I step out of a Chinese restaurant, I can still recall vividly how these little things surprises me when I went to the first US Chinese restaurant many years ago. If you want to know more about the origin of Fortune cookie which is served mostly in western world, Wikipedia is your friend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie)This may be off the topic, but as a fan of NPR, I highly recommend it to anyone who are interested in learning English (American accent) or American culture. NPR's website (http://www.npr.org/) has tons of podcasts that you can listen to. Their speech is normally articulated very clearly, which is easier to follow than conversational speech. Furthermore as a good source of news and events, I think it's one of the least biased. Technorati Tags: fortune cookie, npr