You hear this all the time, right? That your grandmother, and generations before her, used lard for everything! Frying, baking, and cooking with lard was a thing of the norm dating back to the early 1400’s. It was readily available, easy to render in the home kitchen, and the performance and flavor of lard in…
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Why Fat belongs in a Healthy Diet
For over 60 years, governing health bodies have pushed to replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats, and in cooking oils – this means switching to an array of vegetable oils over animal fats. The low-fat diet was the new rage, and we were told to replace saturated animal fats with “healthier” alternatives like processed soy,…