This Is the Most Polarizing Ingredient in Cooking

Let’s make it shine for the doubters

Mark Bittman
Heated
Published in
8 min readMar 16, 2020

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Folks tend to pitch their tents into two tofu camps: love it or hate it. Since it’s obvious from my previous emails where I come down (love it), my job is to make tofu shine for the doubters. If that describes you, then let’s see if we can troubleshoot what’s not working.

First, the tofu itself: It’s important to…

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Mark Bittman
Heated

Has published 30 books, including How to Cook Everything and VB6: The Case for Part-Time Veganism. Newsletter at markbittman.com.