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appetizing. Often they are served with bits of raw, 

 chopped-up carrots in between, creating a dish pleas- 

 ing to the eye. 



"From the small yellowish green soybeans, bean- 

 curd is made in all its forms. The large yellow vari- 

 eties are used for oil production. 



"Broadbeans, Vicia faba, are in winter and spring 

 soaked in water over night, often even allowed to ger- 

 minate and are fried in oil and salt sprinkled over 

 them and eaten like salted peanuts. 



"Peas, Pisum sativum, brown and yellow varieties 

 are in wintertime soaked in water over night and 

 steamed or fried in oil, sprinkled over with a bit of 

 salt and eaten as a vegetable; flavor excellent. When 

 the peas have made sprouts of 2-4 inches long, they 

 are scalded and eaten like spinach, pea and sprouts 

 left attached; they do not taste very fine. Fromwater- 

 soaked ground peas a gelatine is made, much eaten in 

 summer, resembling a primitive form of ' blanc mange'. 



"Mustard seed, Brassica juncea, in wintertime is sown 

 out in warm, moist and dark places and the tiny plants 

 eaten with brown sugar sprinkled over them. 



"Amaranthiis blitum and A. tricolor are eaten the same 

 way. Chives, Allium schoenoprasum, are forced in dark, warm 

 places and eaten in soups, with meats and baked in ex- 

 tremely thin pancakes , made from yellow soybean flour. 

 They are considered, together with the garlic, to pre- 

 vent ptomaine poisoning. Of all these forced winter 

 vegetables the Mung bean is the most commonly used/ on 

 account of cheapness and availability, but in my opin- 

 ion the Adzuki beansprout is the best. There is a future 

 in breeding fine varieties of Vigna sinensis and Vigna 

 sesquipedalis: they stand moist heat and drought at the 

 same time and can be made to bear throughout the whole 

 summer. Ipomoea aquatica is, like Tetragonia expansa, a sum- 

 mer spinach; it loves moist soils. The Wax-gourd, Ben- 

 incasa cerifera, is like the chayote, a good late summer 

 and winter vegetable. After I have been in Southern 

 China, I may have some more things to write about. 

 Did you have a look at my photographs of soybean pro- 

 ducts? I hope they have given you, and others, some 

 ideas how big an affair the soybean is in the daily 

 life of one fourth of the world's population and if 

 the white races do not soon stop committing suicide, 

 these people will, by the year 2000, constitute one 

 third of the earth's inhabitants." 



