Monday, February 19, 2018
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My butcher block is the real deal. Decades ago, at a party in the Catskills with acquaintances who knew us through our tofu business, a woman mentioned that her uncle was closing up his deli in NJ and selling off the equipment, including his butcher block. I'd always wanted one. Measuring 30" square and 15" deep, it weighs hundreds of pounds.
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Nice! That's not much smaller than my kitchen!
ReplyDeleteYou had a tofu business? Is there no end to "the things Susan has done'?
ReplyDeleteWow!! (And seconding what Helen said.)
ReplyDeleteYes, we had a tofu business. My husband was a chemical engineer, but when the kids were very little he became a tofu manufacturer so he could work "at home." (He converted a big room in the barn into a food manufacturing facility.) He made a couple of thousand pounds of it a week. I gave tofu cooking demonstrations. Our tofu was the BEST. It's been years, but at times I still resent having to buy stuff from the store. :-)
ReplyDeleteIs it something you could do now on a smaller scale?
ReplyDeleteNo, not at all. I made tofu in my kitchen (once) before we had the business, and it was very labor-intensive. Took two hours to make one pound. Making tofu in our facility required physical strength and long hours. I stayed out of that. Joe hired workers to help him.
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