ABSTRACT

Most Americans in the year 2000 could identify tofu as soybean cake originating in China and Japan, a very small percentage had some knowledge of tempeh, the fermented soybean or grain cake from Indonesia (Fig. 1). For the purpose of this chapter, tempeh (or tempe, pronounced “tern-pay”) is defined as a fermented cake of soybeans or grains that has been a traditional staple of the Indonesian people for centuries.