tempeh - antedating (1931)

Fri Dec 16 23:26:03 UTC 2011

"Yearbook of agriculture, Volume 1904," Unites States Department of Agriculture, p. 28 (http://ow.ly/82e53)

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American chemists, seeking to increase exports of soybeans, have adapted modern techniques and fermentation methods to improve their use in such traditional Japanese foods as tofu and miso and in tempeh of Indonesia.
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Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

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