Who Killed Lard?

“The word lard has become this generally derogatory term associated with fat and disgustingness,” says Dan Pashman who hosts a food podcast called The Sporkful. *
“These people when they packed their pork, they had a lot of lard left over,” says William Shurtleff, an expert on the history of oils and fats who works at the SoyInfo center. Unlike lard, Crisco was made in a lab by scientists, not necessarily an appetizing idea back then.

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