While a diplomat in France during the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin obtained the recipe for making tofu. He sent the recipe and some beans to a friend back in the not-yet united states. The beans grew great, Franklin’s friend reported, but the tofu didn’t work out. Franklin had confused garbanzo beans and soy beans. If not for a mix up about what kind of bean to use to make tofu, Franklin could have changed American eating habits nearly 250 years ago. https://theicarian.substack.com/p/the-50-books-i-read-after-watching