This word once conjured up beige visions of heath food stores, with that medicinal smell of wellness. It also sparked bad food memories. Like a Christmas dinner I once spent in Sichuan, that was ...

Over the past few years, grocery stores have been awash in new plant-based proteins. But some of the most reliable, nutritious options have been around for hundreds, even thousands, of years. I’m ...

Plant-based meat is in trouble, with major brands like Beyond Meat struggling and products being removed from menus. But are ...

More and more people are eating less and less meat, and there are lots more choices than ever before for vegetarians, vegans, and meat-reducers who want something plant-based but with the texture and ...

Whether it's pan-fried or baked into crispy snacks, the Indonesian soybean cake called tempeh is catching on in America as an alternative to meat. For the residents of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, it ...

But first, what the heck is tempeh? Unlike tofu, which is made by curdling fresh, hot soy milk with a coagulant, tempeh is made by fermenting cooked soybeans with a mold. OK, so the two don't sound ...

Back in January, I was so bold as to issue a hopeful call that 2015 might be the Year of Tempeh. The reasons: a growing interest in plant-based eating and an also-growing realization that fermented ...

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough,” Albert Einstein is said to have quipped. Gena Hamshaw, a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition, seems to have ...

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