Anyone who says tofu is bland or boring hasn’t eaten mapo tofu, the intoxicatingly spicy, fragrant dish from the Sichuan province of China. Unlike the gentle Vietnamese tofu dishes I grew up with in ...

Mapo tofu is one of Sichuan cuisine's most iconic dishes. It consists of silky tofu bathed in a fiery, aromatic sauce that ...

When my father took over a takeout restaurant in Phoenix in the early 1990s, the menu quickly grew from 18 dishes to over 50. Though beyond impractical and bordering on ridiculous for such a small ...

But tofu is far from new. The ingredient, which is made with condensed soy milk, originated in China more than 2,000 years ago. In the centuries that followed, it spread to many other Asian countries, ...