Fortune cooking cooling rack
notes: label: Description
content: Fortune cookies are prone to unraveling. In order to transform the thin wafers to the iconic fortune cookie shape that we know and love today, the circular cookie is folded into half, with the point edges pulled to touch each edge. It is important that this shape is held in place while it cools, and thus the cooling rack is necessary.
label: Description
content: It is easy to see the coevolution with which the senbei cookie cooling rack evolved into the fortune cookie cooling rack as it made the senbei underwent the transformation into the American phenomenon. The overall shape and material of the cooling rack is synonymous, the only notable difference being the widened grooves in order to accommodate for the folding of the fortune cookie.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
label: Associated Place
content: United States: California
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Brian Kito on behalf of Fugetsu-do Confectionery L.A.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0104.02
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0104.02
label: accession number
content: 2012.0104
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rack
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: top plank: 28 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; x 72.39 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: middle plank: 22 in x 2 1/2 in; x 55.88 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: bottom plank: 14 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; x 35.8775 cm x 6.35 cm