Trivia: 04/29/12: Where's My Fortune Cookie?

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
HINT: (1877-1964), German born Swiss novelist and poet. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.

RANDOM TIDBITS

The title of the Paul Simon 1972 hit single "Mother and Child Reunion" was adopted from the name of a chicken-and-egg dish he spotted on the menu of Say Eng Look, a Chinese restaurant in the Chinatown section of New York City.
In China, "pork" is synonymous with "meat." The Chinese do eat beef, but because cattle are more valued as work animals, most of their dishes are made with swine.
Chop suey is strictly an American concoction. Chinese immigrants who worked on the railways would cook together whatever vegetables and meat they had available. The name comes from the Mandarin phrase "tsa sui," which means "mixed pieces."
When 110 different players claimed second prize in the March 30, 2005, Powerball drawing, lottery officials suspected some type of fraud. However, it turned out that all those winners had played numbers they'd found in fortune cookies.
During the Chou dynasty, China struggled to feed its people. What little forestation the area had was cleared for agricultural purposes. Traditional Chinese cuisine evolved in reaction to the wood shortage; because baking and boiling would take too long (and thus too much firewood), food was cut into small pieces and quickly stir-fried.
The cardboard cartons with metal handles that we associate with Chinese food carryout were originally used as oyster pails along the Eastern seaboard. In the 1940s, the burgeoning Chinese restaurant market discovered that the oyster pails made convenient and distinctive containers for their carryout wares.
QUOTE: "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
ANSWER: Hermann Hesse.