Woman's tofu license plate curdles in Colo.

One Colorado woman's love for tofu has been judged X-rated by state officials. Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her fondness for bean curd by picking certain letters for her SUV's license plate. Her suggestion for the plate: "ILVTOFU." But the Division of Motor Vehicles blocked her plan because they thought the combination of letters could be interpreted as profane.

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Poll. If you had to give up eating meat, could you or would you?

OK, here's the premise of this poll. Radical left wing or right wing Vegans and Vegetarians have taken control of the country and the consumption of any meat has been banned under the law.

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BERKELEY, Calif. — It began with ninjas and it ended with tofu, and somewhere in the middle hundreds of amateur sushi rollers set a new world record.

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The world's longest California roll was made on the UC Berkeley campus Sunday, according to Consul-General of Japan Yasumasa Nagamine.

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All Kelley Coffman-Lee wanted to do was broadcast her love of tofu to the driving public. So the Colorado vegan applied to the state's Department of Revenue for a vanity license plate for her Suzuki SL7 carrying the message: ILVTOFU.

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Food doesn't always have to come from different types of carcasses.

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Bosses at animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are sweating over a new idea to turn George Clooney's perspiration into a tofu flavor.

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Instead of having a greasy, battered coating, the tofu "steaks" in our revamped Parmigiana are breaded and lightly pan-fried in just a small amount of oil then topped with part-skim mozzarella, fresh basil and your favorite marinara sauce.

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Asian Black Pasta

Yesterday I made an amazingly tasty pasta which I called Asian Black Pasta because of its distinctly Asian ingredients and flavor. In fact, it was so good the people in my house had second helpings. It's so delicious you won't even notice you're eating a vegetarian meal.

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It gets better. It seems that all this is due to soya compounds called isoflavones, which mimic the female sex hormone, oestrogen. So there you have it - male vegetarians are shooting blanks and not enough of them.

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Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise the risk of memory loss, research suggests. The study focused on 719 elderly Indonesians living in urban and rural regions of Java.

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You thought that Microsoft Vista video from earlier today was bad? Watch these. Lest us forget the turgid history of some other horrifically bad promotional videos from Microsoft that will forever burned into our brains. Here are some of my top picks:

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Give Up Soy For Lent - Even If You Aren't Catholic

I'm not a Catholic but my wife and kids are and the Lenten season is upon us. My eldest daughter has to pick something to give up for Lent - I typically tell people I gave up Catholicism for Lent about 20 years ago but most of the Catholics I know don't find much humor in that.

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Are you a culinary nanny-panny wimp or can you muscle these horribly disgusting smelling food delicacies?

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Madison: a place where bowling a few frozen turkeys for charity causes enough outrage that, within 24 hours, organizers switch to tofu.

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Pushing for tofu, an animal rights group urged the organizers of Abbeville's Giant Omelette celebration to consider using tofu instead of real eggs. 5,023; that's how many eggs were cracked for this year's giant omelette. And an animal rights group is speaking up.

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Each day, Thanh Nga Nguyen rises before 3 a.m. to tend to her tofu factory -- a small, steamy place tucked into the end of a strip mall on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. Trucks rumble down the freshly paved street -- it's easy to bypass Chuminh Tofu without another thought.

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Men who eat just half a serving of soya a day have drastically fewer sperm than those who do not consume such foods, according to a small, preliminary study.

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All those organic bean sprouts and hikes in Tilden Park have paid off. According to a Berkeley public health study released Tuesday, Berkeley residents have longer, healthier lives than almost anyone else in the Bay Area.

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The very healthy benefits of the Japanese diet.

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Healthy eating is constantly in the news, adverts and magazines. We are being warned to watch our diets, especially in the western world where we eat far too much meat.

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Find yourself dragging through those morning runs? Your 10k pace not where you want it? Sprinting toward the porta potties on race day? There could be an easy fix and it all starts with your diet.

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From the page: -- A man caused chaos on a flight from Guiyang to Shenzhen after he brought a packet of strong-smelling tofu on board. --

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I knew it

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