The history of the beige bean liquid that was once predicted to save the world.
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We live in a golden age of milk. You can top your latte with a foam of almond-coconut-oat or pea; dip your cookies in hemp or rice; soak your bran flakes in hazelnut-linseed or quinoa. Any legume grain or nut can be squeezed into a smooth milky liquid.
Among this next-generation group of plant-based milk substitutes soy milk the first widely available plant-based milk stands apart as an old-fashioned older sister—a little old-fashioned and a little outdated. But within the soy family of products soy milk is a relative newcomer with a thin history before the 20th century. Other soy products like tofu tempeh and yuba have long been used in various ways in a variety of East Asian cuisines but soy milk played only a limited role in traditional diets in China. The liquid rendered from ground soybeans that were soaked overnight was sometimes served as part of a Chinese breakfast warmed and sweetened; seasoned with salt it became a dipping sauce for youtiao or fried crullers. More often than not it wasn’t a finished product but an intermediate step in the production of tofu.
Unlike the ubiquity of miso or soy sauce soy milk’s popularity in the United States is not the result of a growing consumer base adopting a traditional food. In the hands of American technologists Adventist missionaries hippie environmentalists and East Asian entrepreneurs soy milk has always been seen as a food of the future a healing beige liquid that held the solution to all our nutritional spiritual and environmental woes. For decades soy milk’s devotees in the United States waited for their time to come believing that a world that embraced soy milk was a world in which the future could triumph over the woes of the past. But while soy milk’s day has finally arrived its moment in the spotlight of American consumer love now seems fleetingly brief.
