Seitan, a wheat-based meat substitute (1990)

[Drew Danielson]

FWIW, seitan is mostly made of rendered wheat gluten (the gluten is the
important part as far as defining seitan - it's the protein from wheat
flour without much of the carbs or cellulose).  I first tried it in
about 1989.  Not a bad flavor (should be seasoned or served with other
foods, though), nice 'meaty' texture if it's blanched.


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> Date:    Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:37:08 +0100
> From:    Imran Ghory <imran at BITS.BRIS.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: Seitan, a wheat-based meat substitute (1990)
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> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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>  > Vegetarians eat satan?
>  > Not in OED or Merriam-Webster.  Over 17,000 Google hits.
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>  > 30 November 1986, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 697:
>  > (Couldn't get full text for this, just an article summary without the
> word--ed.)
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> A 1984 usenet message spelling it "setan",
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> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=202%40bpa.UUCP&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
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