<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>thanks for the recipe, yoshi.  will definitely try it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>anyone notice how perchlorate (deadly byproduct of rocket fuel, fireworks, munitions and other pentagon toys) is not only in ground water but is showing in up in organic foods as well as lettuce?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=furuhashi.1@osu.edu href="mailto:furuhashi.1@osu.edu">Yoshie Furuhashi</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 23, 2003 12:36 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] Tofu was Re:Weird rich people question</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>At 2:56 PM -0400 5/23/03, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:<BR>>  > Going off on a tangent but, what is "tasteless" about<BR>>>  organic food?  All it is is food that hasnt been<BR>>>  bombarded with hormones, pesticides and is cultivated<BR>>>  using farming practices that dont destroy topsoil.  It<BR>>>  is a problem that in most cases it is too<BR>>>  expensive-especially organic meat-for a lot of people<BR>>>  to buy.<BR>>><BR>>  > -Thomas<BR>><BR>>I meant the nasty tofu and soy stuff as well as overpriced lettuce aka<BR>>"salad" that passes for a meal is stores and cafes of the People's<BR>>Republic of Cambridge, Berkeley, Sanata Cruz, and around elite college<BR>>campuses and yuppievilles elsewhere.  But I have nothing against<BR>>pesticide- and horomone -free veggies, cheese, milk or meat - in fact,<BR>>they taste much better than most of the regular supermarket stuff.<BR><BR>What's wrong with tofu consumption in the United States is that most <BR>Americans use tofu for purposes for which it was never designed <BR>(e.g., "tofu burger," "tofu lasagna," "tofu quiche," etc.).<BR><BR>One of the best tofu recipes is also the simplest:<BR><BR>Buy a block of fresh tofu from a tofu store in the neighborhood (an <BR>impossibility in Ohio and probably in Maryland, but there may be some <BR>tofu stores in California).<BR>Cut tofu into bite-size cubes.<BR>Chop negi (green onions) fine, & grate shoga (fresh ginger roots), to <BR>make a garnish.<BR>Put the negi & shoga garnish on top of cubed tofu.<BR>(Add katsuobushi [dried bonito flakes] to the garnish if you like.]<BR>Pour soy sauce over the tofu garnished with negi & shoga.<BR><BR>This is called hiyayakko -- good to eat on a hot summer day.<BR>-- <BR>Yoshie<BR><BR>* Calendars of Events in Columbus: <BR><<A href="http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html">http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html</A>>, <BR><<A href="http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php">http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php</A>>, & <<A href="http://www.cpanews.org/">http://www.cpanews.org/</A>><BR>* Student International Forum: <<A href="http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/">http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/</A>><BR>* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <<A href="http://www.osudivest.org/">http://www.osudivest.org/</A>><BR>* Al-Awda-Ohio: <<A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio</A>><BR>* Solidarity: <<A href="http://solidarity.igc.org/">http://solidarity.igc.org/</A>><BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>