Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel By Guanzhong Luo Paperback University Of California Press
Aside from vegetables and fruit, there may possibly have been a further critical vegetarian meals item — tofu. To make tofu, you take soybeans — which we knew they grew through this time — soak them, grind them, filter them, and boil them to make soy milk. Then you let the soy milk coagulate into bean curds, and then you press the bean curds into tofu. In the course of the Three Kingdoms period, rice was the preferred staple food in the South, and it was regarded a rare commodity in the North. In the middle and late game, I...