Seed Oils Are The Latest Battle In The Cooking Fat Wars
The Sporkful1 Joulu 2025

Seed Oils Are The Latest Battle In The Cooking Fat Wars

In America, the cooking fat you use — lard, butter, shortening, oil — has long been a signifier of health, virtue, and class. What is it about fat that gets us so riled up? Reporter Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong looks at four battles over cooking fats in America over the last 150 years, starting with lard vs. Crisco, all the way to our current panic over seed oils. What do these battles tell us about food culture, and about America?

This episode was reported by Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong. The Sporkful production team includes Dan Pashman, Emma Morgenstern, Andres O'Hara, Kameel Stanley, Jared O'Connell, Morgan Johnson, and Jazzmin Sutherland.

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