"Gregory Morrow" > writes:
> > Is there a Mormon cannery in your area? I've got a whole ~200 page
> > TVP cookbook that I picked up free at a Mormon cannery in Arizona in
> > the 80s...
>
> Afraid not, although there is a Mormon community several hundred miles
> southwest of here in Nauvoo, Illinois (where Joseph Smith started his trek).

You sure? A lot of populated areas have a cannery, even if it's not a
predominantly LDS area. A call to the nearest ward can answer that
(and I've found that they are usually quite friendly to this sort of
inquiry by non-LDSers).

> Is TVP a featured "survivalist" staple, then?

Yes, for quite some time TVP was a staple of various survivalist
stashes, including the Mormon year-supply. TVP is decent, in that
while of questionable palatability (especially the older stuff, it has
gotten better), it is very stable and, more importantly, affordable.
We'd see a *lot* of it come through the food banks when I was doing high
school volunteer work in AZ in the 80's, as local families removed
near-expired or expired TVP and other long-term-storable foodstuffs
and replaced them with new.

I'll see if I can dig up the cookbook and post some recipes.

--
Richard W Kaszeta

http://www.kaszeta.org/rich