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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 , Vieia 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, Pi8um 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. From water- 
soaked ground peas a gelatine is made, much eaten in 
summer, resembling a primitive form of 'blanc mange'. 
"Mustard seed, Brassiea juneea, in wintertime is s6wn 
out in warm, moist and dark places and the tiny plants 
eaten with brown sugar sprinkled over them. 
"Amaranthus blitum and A. tricolor are eaten the same 
way. Chives, Allium sehoenoprasum, 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 andean be made to bear throughout the whole 
summer. Ipomoea aquatiea is, like Tetragonia expansa, a sum- 
mer spinach; it loves moist soils. The Wax- gourd , Ben- 
ineasa eerifera, 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." 
