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Lard, beautiful lard
Lard is a wonderful thing to use in pastry crusts, crackers, and as a butter substitute when sauteing. Did you know that New York City's health commissioner, Corby Krummer, has asked local restaurants to stop using cooking oils containing trans fats, comparing them to such hazards as lead and asbestos, Kummer proposed that we bring back lard, "the great misunderstood fat." Lard, he cheerfully reported, contains just 40 percent saturated fat (compared with nearly 60 percent for butter). Its level of monounsaturated fat (the "good" fat) is "a very respectable 45 percent," he noted, "double butter's paltry 23 or so percent." Kummer hinted that if I wanted to appreciate the virtues of this health food, I needed to fry shoestring potatoes or a chicken drumstick. To read more about lard go to http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/lard-the-new-health-food