[Photograph: Nick Kindelsperger]

Even the most full-fledged carnivore needs to take a break from meat sometimes. To fill the protein void, we turn to tofu, the coagulated soy milk block that often gets a bad rap. But if tofu could talk it would say, hey, I am tasty too! Try me with tomatoes and cilantro, or in the Sichuan dish mapo tofu. Let's hear it for that pale jiggly block. Take the tofu quiz »