"tōfu" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, Sōchō, translated by H. Mack Horton, The Journal of Sōchō, Stanford University Press, page 130",
          "text": "Our words together piled deeper than the snow—we sat side by side at the hearth, eating tōfu with miso and taking cup after cup of sake.",
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          "ref": "a. 2005, William E. Naff, edited by J. Thomas Rimer, The Kiso Road: The Life and Times of Shimazaki Tōson, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, published 2011, page 118",
          "text": "The letter expatiates on the primitive conditions under which he is living—he has to walk all the way down to Seta just to get a piece of tōfu.",
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          "ref": "2012, Elizabeth Andoh, Kibō (“Brimming with Hope”): Recipes and Stories from Japan’s Tohoku, Ten Speed Press",
          "text": "Soft or silken tōfu is also used in making sauces. Fried tōfu. Abura agé (fried tōfu sheets) are made from loaves of momen-dōfu that are drained, weighted to press out excess liquid, and then cut into thin slices that are deep-fried.",
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          "text": "Soft or silken tōfu is also used in making sauces. Fried tōfu. Abura agé (fried tōfu sheets) are made from loaves of momen-dōfu that are drained, weighted to press out excess liquid, and then cut into thin slices that are deep-fried.",
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