Episode 48: The History of Tofu and Why Everyone Was Tofu Fighting
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What does a block of tofu have to do with Buddhist monks, Korean prison traditions, and a police raid in West Germany?
This week, we’re tracing tofu’s roughly 2,000-year history—from its mysterious origins in ancient China and its spread through Buddhist communities to Japan’s 18th-century tofu obsession and Korea’s tradition of eating tofu after leaving prison.
Then we head to 1980s West Germany, where a group of…
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