Self-Taught Homework #12: You & tofu bond over Eldest Daughter Syndrome

You rediscover holding boundaries on time while you spend a week home alone.

Tofu’s superpower is its ability to absorb whatever you give it.

You can’t tell if you admire or worry for tofu.

The meatless protein recipes you find primarily feature tofu, and a disproportionate amount of those recipes come from Instagram (sadly).

When you scan a private folder of saved Instagram cooking videos, you search for one recipe you swore you saved about a one-pot-looking tofu medley. Your worst eating preferences reflect back to you (double sadly). You are surprised to find yourself remotely caught off-guard at the amount of cheese, bread, and cake recipes that crossed your threshold onto “ooh, save that” territory.

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Tofu, and its generous soy lineage, reflect an eldest daughter energy you find relatable. Soy can disguise into a cream cheese, fried chicken, a smoothie, a tomato sauce. They can spice it up in a mapo tofu dish or heal you with a miso soup.

Without soy, would mainstream vegan eating be feasible? Has soy been carrying the team on their backs the whole time wit…