tempeh - antedating (1931)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Yearbook of agriculture, Volume 1904," Unites States Department of Agriculture, p. 28 (http://ow.ly/82e53)
> >
> > -----
> > 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.

Looks like a GB misdating. The title page says 1961, not 1931.

--bgz

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