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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TOFU

A delicacy in Asian cuisine for over 2,000 years, tofu is now a go-to staple of vegan and health-conscious diets here in the 21st century. Widely regarded as a super-food, tofu is popping up in everything from street-food dishes to the menus of Michelin-starred restaurants. However, it’s still misunderstood as an ingredient and is often labeled bland and boring. In this article, we’ll discover that tofu is anything but bland and, as an ingredient, it can form the basis of all manner of exciting and delicious recipes. 1. The Origins of Tofu Like many of the soy foods that are trending in vegan diets, tofu originated in China. According to legend , its invention was a complete accident. The story goes that over 2,000 years ago, a Chinese cook mistakenly added nigari seaweed to the soybean dish they were preparing, which curdled the soybean milk. The resulting curds were then pressed together, and low and behold, tofu – or doufu – was invented. While the Chinese kept their tofu secret for

The Modern Web Application: A Twisted Mess of Third-Party Dependencies

For most organizations, the company website is a core part of their ability to do business. For the modern consumer, an organization’s web presence is their preferred choice for interacting with a company. Customers will browse the organization’s product offerings on the website and talk to customer service through live chat. As an obvious result, an organization’s website security is vital. A cyberattack against an organization’s web presence can have significant business impacts. These can range from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack creating site lag that drives customers to more responsive sites to data skimming malware designed to steal payment card information. Securing an organization’s website requires securing the web applications that run on it. However, this can be more difficult that it would seem. The modern web application isn’t written using fully in-house code. Instead, web developers take advantage of a wide range of third-party code and libraries to speed