tempeh - antedating (1931)

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Dec 16, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:

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

That seems more reasonable. Only a slight antedating, then. BB

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