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ack. A color photo shows a small glass dish of the soy
yogurt, with a little whipped cream and a strawberry on top.
“Yogurt-style. A fermented food.”
456. Product Name: [Tofurin Tofu Cheese (With Miso)].
Foreign Name: Tofurin.
Manufacturer’s Name: Stichting Natuurvoeding
Amsterdam. Renamed Manna Natuurvoeding B.V. in 1982.
Manufacturer’s Address: Meeuwenlaan 70, 1021JK,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Date of Introduction: 1981.
Ingredients: Tofu, miso.
New Product–Documentation: Richard Leviton. 1983.
Trip to Europe with American Soybean Assoc. Oct/Nov.
Unpublished manuscript. p. 25. “Tofurin tastes like cheese.
It is tofu fermented with miso, then sterilized at 100ºC for
1 hour.” Letter from Sjon Welters. 1989. July 24. Tofurin
was developed by Sjon Welters for Manna and introduced
together with Manna’s tofu spreads [in 1981], in the same
size glass jar. It was not really fermented, just tofu mixed
with miso.
Manna Bulletin. 1983. 5(4):1. June. The price of Tofurin
has been reduced from 3.90 to 3.45 guilders.
457. Cadwell, Jane. 1981. O Livro da Soja [The book of
soya]. Sao Paulo, Brazil: Editora Ground Ltda. 79 p. Illust.
Index. 21 cm. [Por]
• Summary: Contents: Preface. Introduction. The soybean.
Soybeans and health (nutritional composition). Our daily
foods and our health. Auxiliary foods and ingredients (incl.
miso). Kitchen utensils. Recipes: Whole soybeans (incl.
cooked ground soybeans, green vegetable soybeans {Soja
fresca (verde)}, soynuts {castanhas de soja}) Soymilk (incl.
homemade using the Cornell method, soymilk yogurt),
okara, tofu (incl. homemade, tofu miso soup, cakes, pies,
baby foods).
Jane writes in a letter dated 5 July 1982 of her book:
“My book is the fi rst one [published in Brazil] exclusively on
soyfoods. The intent was to show people all the varieties of
things that they could make starting principally from whole
dry soybeans. Consequently I did not include the topics of
miso, soyfl our, and textured proteins. I began writing the
book as a result of a government campaign last year to get
people to use soybeans in place of regular beans. As you
probably know, rice and beans is really the principal dish
at the noon and evening meals. There was a shortage of the
regular beans and the price was very high... Consequently
the government campaign to introduce soybeans. They were
ridiculously cheap, yet there was hardly any information
on how to use them. Thus–my book... Soybeans are now
available in many supermarkets and well as health food
stores and oriental shops.” Address: Brazil.
458. Kloss, Jethro. 1981. Back to Eden: A human interest
HISTORY OF SOY YOGURT & CULTURED SOYMILK 186
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story of health and restoration to be found in herb, root, and
bark. Loma Linda, California: Back to Eden Books. xxxii +
684 p. Illust. Index. 18 cm. Kloss Family Heirloom Edition.
• Summary: One of the most creative and original sources
of early soyfoods recipes, which include “Soybean Cream”
and “Soybean Ice Cream.” This revised edition contains
the complete original text of this classic work on healing
herbs, home remedies, diet, and health–plus 16 pages of
new family recollections by Jethro Kloss’ daughter, son, and
granddaughter at the beginning of the book, and 16 pages
of previously unpublished photographs in the middle of the
book. This edition was fi rst copyrighted in 1972. The book
has been published continuously by the Kloss family since
1946. A blurb on the cover of the 1981 printing (which retails
for $2.95) states: “Two million copy bestseller. The complete
original text [with the same page numbers]. New family
additions!” A color illustration by Harry Anderson shows a
man and woman seated by an idyllic river, surrounded by
birds and animals, in the Garden of Eden. The rear cover
states that this is “The heirloom authorized Kloss family
edition.”
The contents of the book, except for the new sections
mentioned above, are identical to the original 1939 edition.
But the recollections of Jethro Kloss by his children and
granddaughter contain a wealth of new and interesting
information. The recollections by his daughter Promise
Kloss Moffett note: “My father was born on a large farm
near Manitowac, Wisconsin, on April 27, 1863. The ninth of
eleven children born to his pioneering parents lived a healthy
and happy life in that primitive Indian country...
“When he was about twenty, he went to Florida and
worked in the orange groves, fi nally owning a large grove
at Deland. Later he attended school in Nebraska and then in
Battle Creek, Michigan. While in Battle Creek he worked
closely with the then revolutionary medical leadership of the
world-renowned Battle Creek Sanitarium. He saw clearly
the disastrous results of the use of dangerous drugs then
prevalent in caring for the sick. He developed further his
own philosophy and understanding of the laws of nature...
“He was married March 5, 1900 to Miss Carrie
Stilson, who had trained as a Bible worker and teacher
and had labored in a mission in Madison, Wisconsin and
taught several terms of grade school. At that time he was
a licensed minister in Wisconsin and they established their
home at Rose Lawn. Two children were born to this union,
Promise Joy and Paul, who died when only four weeks old
of whooping cough. During these years, besides my father’s
ministerial work, my parent’s operated a branch of the Battle
Creek Sanitarium and also sold Battle Creek Sanitarium
health foods. My mother died in July of 1905.
“In March, 1907, my father married Mrs. Amy Ponwith,
a widow with a small daughter, Mabel. My father and stepmother
owned and operated an attractive sanitarium in
pleasant surroundings in St. Peter, Minnesota, which they