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Fortune Cookie Production at Benkyodo, San Francisco - ca 1914-1941 - WWII - 1946-1958

An Open Kata


Published: April 29, 2011 Modified: Feb. 11, 2025

This kata is open to show how the plier-like device has a clamping mold inside which the Sembei is baked. A U.S. coin (one cent) is nearby to give scale to this cooking grille implement. The katas are stamped in Japanese in the handles with the tool maker's chop (ID).


senbei griddles

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Fortune Cookie Production at Benkyodo, San Francisco - ca 1914-1941 - WWII - 1946-1958
This Album contains illustrations, photographs and explaination of what I remember of Benkyodo's production of fortune cookies after WWII. This is a supplement to the two-part essay,  "Japanese American Fortune Cookie," I wrote for the Dis…
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