The Story of Soy

The Story of Soy
Title The Story of Soy PDF eBook
Author Christine M. Du Bois
Publisher Reaktion Books
Pages 372
Release 2018-04-15
Genre Cooking
ISBN 1780239653

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The humble soybean is the world’s most widely grown and most traded oilseed. And though found in everything from veggie burgers to cosmetics, breakfast cereals to plastics, soy is also a poorly understood crop often viewed in extreme terms—either as a superfood or a deadly poison. In this illuminating book, Christine M. Du Bois reveals soy’s hugely significant role in human history as she traces the story of soy from its domestication in ancient Asia to the promise and peril ascribed to it in the twenty-first century. Traveling across the globe and through millennia, The Story of Soy includes a cast of fascinating characters as vast as the soy fields themselves—entities who’ve applauded, experimented with, or despised soy. From Neolithic villagers to Buddhist missionaries, European colonialists, Japanese soldiers, and Nazi strategists; from George Washington Carver to Henry Ford, Monsanto, and Greenpeace; from landless peasants to petroleum refiners, Du Bois explores soy subjects as diverse as its impact on international conflicts, its role in large-scale meat production and disaster relief, its troubling ecological impacts, and the nutritional controversies swirling around soy today. She also describes its genetic modification, the scandals and pirates involved in the international trade in soybeans, and the potential of soy as an intriguing renewable fuel. Featuring compelling historical and contemporary photographs, The Story of Soy is a potent reminder never to underestimate the importance of even the most unprepossesing sprout.

Soybeans

Soybeans
Title Soybeans PDF eBook
Author Lawrence A. Johnson
Publisher Elsevier
Pages 853
Release 2015-08-08
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 0128043520

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This comprehensive new soybean reference book disseminates key soybean information to "drive success for soybeans via 23 concise chapters covering all aspects of soybeans--from genetics, breeding and quality to post-harvest management, marketing and utilization (food and energy applications), U.S. domestic versus foreign practices and production methods. - The most complete and authoritative book on soybeans - Features internationally recognized authors in the 21-chapter book - Offers sufficient depth to meet the needs of experts in the subject matter, as well as individuals with basic knowledge of the topic

The Whole Soy Story

The Whole Soy Story
Title The Whole Soy Story PDF eBook
Author Kaayla T. Daniel
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2005
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9780967089751

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This book is a gauntlet thrown at the feet of the soy industry, whose reputation often seems based as much on self-promotion as science.

Magic Bean

Magic Bean
Title Magic Bean PDF eBook
Author Matthew Roth
Publisher University Press of Kansas
Pages 368
Release 2018-05-25
Genre History
ISBN 0700626344

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At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farming, culture, and cuisine is the story Matthew Roth tells in Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America. The soybean’s journey from one continent into the heart of another was by no means assured or predictable. In Asia, the soybean had been bred and cultivated into a nutritious staple food over the course of centuries. Its adoption by Americans was long in coming— the outcome of migration and innovation, changing tastes and habits, and the transformation of food, farming, breeding, marketing, and indeed the bean itself, during the twentieth century. All come in for scrutiny as Roth traces the ups and downs of the soybean’s journey. Along the way, he uncovers surprising developments, including a series of catastrophic explosions at soy-processing plants in the 1930s, the widespread production of tofu in Japanese-American internment camps during World War II, the decades-long project to improve the blandness of soybean oil, the creation of new southern soybean varieties named after Confederate generals, the role of the San Francisco Bay Area counterculture in popularizing soy foods, and the discovery of soy phytoestrogens in the late 1980s. We also encounter fascinating figures in their own right, such as Yamei Kin, the Chinese American who promoted tofu during World War I, and African American chemist Percy Lavon Julian, who played a critical role in the story of synthetic human hormones derived from soy sterols. A thoroughly engaging work of narrative history, Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America is the first comprehensive account of the soybean in America over the entire course of the twentieth century.

Coolbean the Soybean

Coolbean the Soybean
Title Coolbean the Soybean PDF eBook
Author Shawn Conley
Publisher ASA, CSSA, and SSSA
Pages 28
Release 2014-12-26
Genre Soybean
ISBN 0891186182

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Meet Coolbean the Soybean! He’s a super bean, but he has something very important in common with kids everywhere. He needs the support and knowledge of his family and friends - including an awesome farmer and some smart scientists - to grow up. Follow Coolbean’s life cycle, from being planted in a cozy bed of healthy soil, to developing flowers and pods, to a happy harvest. See why soybeans are special beans all over the world, feeding billions of people and used for making many other products, from crayons to cars! ...all in alignment with common core standards for reading and science. Aimed at Grades 3 - 5, but lovable by all ages.

Full of Beans

Full of Beans
Title Full of Beans PDF eBook
Author Peggy Thomas
Publisher Thinkingdom
Pages 48
Release 2020-06-09
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1635923573

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A NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book Famous car-maker and businessman Henry Ford loved beans. And he showed great innovation with his determination to build his most inventive car--one completely made of soybeans. With a mind for ingenuity, Henry Ford looked to improve life for others. After the Great Depression struck, Ford especially wanted to support ailing farmers. For two years, Ford and his team researched ways to use farmers' crops in his Ford Motor Company. They discovered that the soybean was the perfect answer. Soon, Ford's cars contained many soybean plastic parts, and Ford incorporated soybeans into every part of his life. He ate soybeans, he wore clothes made of soybean fabric, and he wanted to drive soybeans, too. Award-winning author Peggy Thomas and illustrator Edwin Fotheringham explore this American icon's little-known quest.

Soy Sauce for Beginners

Soy Sauce for Beginners
Title Soy Sauce for Beginners PDF eBook
Author Kirstin Chen
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 261
Release 2014
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0544114396

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For fans of Kyung-Sook Shin and Anna Quindlen, a story of family, loyalty and fresh starts in the heart of Singapore.