Torfu

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1897

“TORFU.”—In Japan, that land of gentle manners and other queer things, notes the Thrice a Week World, they have invented vegetable meat. The substance is called in the vernacular, “torfu.” It consists mainly of protean matter of the sayo bean, and is claimed to be as easily digestible as meat. Torfu is as white as snow, and is sold in tablets; it tastes like fresh malt. What with mineral wool, wood silk, and vegetable meat, and other articles of food and wear made by science, nature may as well go out of business at once.