- Publications by Shurtleff & Aoyagi available from: New Age Foods Study Center 790 Los Palos Manor Lafayette, CA 94549 The Book of Tofu: 500 recipes, 300 illustrations, 336 pages, 8-1/2 by 11-inch large format. Contains instructions for preparing each of the seven basic types of tofu as well as soym1lk, tempeh, yuba and other soy products. (Autumn Press, $6.95). November 1976 RAIN Page 7 The Book ofMiso: 400 recipes, 300 illustrations, 256 pages, 8-112 by 11-inch large format. Contains instructions for preparing many types of miso. (Autumn Press, $6.95). The Book of Tofu, Vol. II: A technical manual for starting a commercial tofu shop. 122 pages, typewritten, unedited, 8-1/2 by 11-inch large format, staple-bound, basic chapters only. Offset printed; $12.95 eKh. · The Bo9k of Miso, Vol. II: A technical manual for starting a commercial miso shop. 45 pages, typewritten, unedited, offset printed, legal size, staple-bound. $3.50 each. Bill and Akiko are presently traveling around the country talking to a wide variety ofgroups about miso and tofu and explaining some of the basics of setting up small-scale, local production of these foo~s. If you want to see them, here are a couple of key contact places on the East Cost. (Sorry, Pacific NW! We caught them at the very end of their trip in this neck of the woods): . November 11-21: Erewhon Natural Foods, 33 Farnsworth Pamphlets: Ten pages, accordion-folded, packed with information, illustrations and favorite Western-style recipes. Special prices for quantity orders. What is Tofu? What is Miso? What is Shoyu? (coming soon), 15¢ each. St., Boston, MA 02218, 617/542-13 58." · December 1-5: Annamarie Colbin, East West Center, 365 West End Ave., New York, NY 10024, 212/244-4270. Tempeh: A 1-page brochure taken from The Book of Tofu describing how to prepare this savory fermented bean food. 25¢ each, 10 for $1.50. , December 15: Michael Rosoff, East West Center, P.O. Box 40012, Wash_ington, DC 20016, 202/920-2083. Tapes : Recorded live at lecture-demonstrations in America. Audio cassettes, 120 min., Tofu, Miso, $5 each. Color Video, 30 min., Tofu, Food for Mankind, $10 rental plus $30 deposit. For a complete copy of their schedule thro'ugh January, including the rest of the Northeast, South, Colorado, New Mexico and ·california, write: New Age Foods Study Center, 790 Los Palos Manor, Lafayette, CA 94549, 415/283-3161. , €GRICULTURE · FOO~ Underexploited Tropical Plants with Promising Economic Value, by the National Academy of Sciences, 1975,' free from: Board on S~ience and Technology for Industrial Development National Science Foundation 2101 Constitution Ave., JH 215 Washington, DC 20418 This belongs on your bookshelf next to Forest Farming (RAIN, July 1976), Good and Wild, and Butterflies in Your Stomach (RAIN, October 1976). Underexploited is probably a good category to be in if the other options are Extinct, Exploited and Over-Exploited, but it's definitely our loss that we have tried to feed the world's people with only abopt 20 plants. We have an incredible range pf soils and climates, and these 20 plants form a pretty small bulwark between us and starvation. Diversity has benefits, and this study lays out some astounding potentials we've overlooked in the rest of the plant kingdom-in tropical areas alone! Cultural colonialization and balloon bread may be good for some but not for all. Try these for a sampling: a wild Australian grass that yiel_ds nutritious grain on just one deep watering; amaranthis-a 'Central American grain with high yields and extremely high levels and quality of protein; zostera-a grain-producing grass-like plant that grows in sea water; arracacha-a Peruvian "parsnip" often grown instead of potatoes, at half the ' cost; mangosteen-probably the world's best-tasting fruit; plants that grow through salt crusts on the ground; and gourds that produce more oil, protein and starch on the desert than most crops do with plentiful rainfall. This list goes on·and O!l· An important pathfinder for futur~. agricultural directions. (TB) Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC) 51 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 212/566-09.90 CENYC is a privately-funded citizens organization affiliated with the Office of the Mayor. They have what look to be a whole lot of interesting projects which we are in the process of-finding more about. The information on them we do have is about their Green Project, directed by Liz Christy, which is providing planning and horticultural assis- ' tance to community-sponsored projects in the city. They give workshops, distribute handy information sheets and have a Mobile Greening Unit, complete with tools, that gives on-site advice .and instruction on soil preparation, planting, garden maintenance, tree and plant selection, design and neighborhood organization. They also have a Garden Tool and Book Lending Library. (LdeM) Farms ofPuget Sound, 1976, free from: Preserve Land for Agriculture Now P.O. Box 5501 Seattle, WA 98105 ·This is the niftiest thing we've seen.yet to make good fresh produce available and h~lp out the small farmer. One side is a listing of farms in the Puget Sound area, along with 'the address, phone, listing of products, dates and times. Each listing has a number. The other side is a map locating the farms. There's also an alphabetical listing of produce with farms' numbers next to each vegetable. Simple and effective. First printing of 35,000 was gone in a month. (LdeM-thanks to Mark ~usick)
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