Here’s my confession: I don’t like tofu. This may not be surprising for a Kentuckian, but this distinction makes for a vegetarian outcast. In my defense, tofu looks very intimidating to the uninitiated eater. Nothing about the word tofu leads me, an English speaker, to the conclusion that’s it’s processed soybeans, so I spent many [...]
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29 Jun
The Soy Conundrum
Since my conversion to vegetarianism, I’ve been trying to order my diet around these values: Eat food, rather than processed food products, as much as possible Eat food that nourishes me without killing the earth, as much as possible Eat food produced locally, when feasible Obviously, I’ll never have a perfect diet. Even this short [...]
