At 10:51 PM 6/17/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Natural (raw) soybeans will put you in the hospital very quickly (they're
>poisonous).  Tofu takes a little longer but eventually will do the same
>thing!

I don't know if -raw- soybeans are -poisonous-, though they are undigestable
 unless cooked properly (which, in my experience, requires a pressure
cooker: 12 hours of ordinary boiling wouldn't do it!)

Immature, green soybeans are eaten, though I don't know how they are
prepared (it's a Japanese thing). They are available in supermarkets here
in Hawaii.

As for tofu being poisonous?  I'd like to hear you expand on this.

Aloha

Al (on the Big Island)