[Sca-cooks] Mongol Feast Questions

Susan Fox-Davis selene at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 5 10:42:44 PDT 2003


Learned cousine Solveig:

Can you give us more information about the early history of tofu?  Obviously,
soybeans take more time and cultivation than the nomadic Mongols could give
them, but obviously somebody else did!

Selene Colfox

Solveig wrote:

> Noble Cousin!
>
> Greetings from Solveig! Tofu is definitely period. However, it really isn't
> the sort of thing tha the Mongols would be making a habit of eating.
> Last I heard, they get their start as Steppe nomads. That means herd
> animals, herd animals, and more herd animals with milk products.
> --
>
>                                         Your Humble Servant
>                                         Solveig Throndardottir
>                                         Amateur Scholar




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