Thursday, November 14

 
Crisco: Crucial to baking or Franken-food?
Here's a great story about the history of Crisco, that "white-white" solid vegetable shortening that heralded the era of manufactured foods. As an aside, it also explains the hydrogenation process clearly -- how oils solidify into fats and why they might be bad for you. I confess -- I use Crisco for frying French toast. Nothing else works as well.
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