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Tofu: A Culinary History

Tofu: A Culinary History

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 1789149533
ISBN13: 9781789149531
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: Dec 31 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
The surprising, spicy story of this globe-trotting vegetable protein staple.

To the untrained eye, there's nothing as unexciting as tofu, normally regarded as a tasteless, beige, congealed mass of crushed, boiled soybeans. However, tofu more than stands up on its own. Reviled for decades as a vegetarian oddity, the brave, wobbly block has made a comeback. This global history of bean curd stretches from ancient creation myths and tomb paintings, via Chinese poetry and Japanese Buddhist cuisine, to deportations in Soviet Russia and struggles for power on the African continent. It describes the potentially non-Chinese roots of tofu, its myriad types, why eating tofu is an insult in Cantonese, and its environmental impact today.

Warning: this book actually makes tofu exciting. It's anything but bland.

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