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Tofu is considered to be an essential part of the diets of people in a variety of different cultures, especially in the Eastern Asian diets! Having much the same importance as meat, milk, and cheese, tofu is undoubtedly a staple. Although it might be newer on the scene in the West, the earliest recordings of tofu were in 900 AD, most significantly in Japan.
Tofu, a word literally meaning bean curd, has been called numerous names in the Chinese and Japanese languages, some meaning �??morning prayer�?� and other interesting cultural references.
It wasn�??t until the 1800s when English-speaking translations of cookbooks came around that the term tofu was used. Then, later on down the road when the meat substitute really began to gain popularity in the West, cookbooks in the 1970s began using the term Tofu as its official name.
