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I was admiring the beauties of the Japanese Tea Garden in Portland, Ore., last month when I realized that we have a very fine one much closer to me, in San Francisco. So I began to do a little ...

Crack open a fortune cookie and you expect wisdom, a playful prophecy, or at least a lucky number. What you don’t expect is its real story. Despite being a fixture in Chinese restaurants across ...