tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post3738086026800334327..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Benjamin Franklin Discovers Tofu for AmericaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-67100603868359273922012-05-02T22:50:25.601-05:002012-05-02T22:50:25.601-05:00But surely Franklin was the first to incorporate t...But surely Franklin was the first to incorporate tofu into a long-hair-and-free-love lifestyle along with anti-authoritarian activism.Peter Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11943332788550109746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-65555868728298695452012-05-01T23:12:56.006-05:002012-05-01T23:12:56.006-05:00I fear we Americans are prone to consider Benjamin...I fear we Americans are prone to consider Benjamin Franklin the first to do everything. Thanks for the reference to Samuel Bowen’s work five years earlier!J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-17103568189728566422012-05-01T17:59:59.571-05:002012-05-01T17:59:59.571-05:00Thank you for the part about tofu, which is correc...Thank you for the part about tofu, which is correct. But the part about soybeans is incorrect. Franklin was the 2nd person to send soybeans to the USA; Samuel Bowen was the first. Read "Introduction of the Soybean to North America by Samuel Bowen by Samuel Bowen in 1765," by T. Hymowitz and J.R. Harlan (Economic Botany, 37(4), 1983. William ShurtleffWilliam Shurtleffnoreply@blogger.com