Olive oil gets all the praise, but there are dozens of oils that deserve ample use in your kitchen. While most of these oils are plant-based coming in the form of vegetable, soy, corn, coconut, and ...

Lard was the canary in the coal mine of culinary correctness. Rendered pig fat was ubiquitous in human diets for centuries. It was used to fry everything from dough to chicken and was an essential ...

A block of sliced smoked lard - Tudor Adamache / 500px/Getty Images It is often said that the four essential elements of cooking are salt, fat, acid, and heat. And while most people know their lemon ...

I was eager to try Grandfather Carrot Cake since I heard that the stall uses pork lard at the customer’s behest. Ever since ...

Lard is a type of semisolid fat that’s widely used in baking and cooking to give foods a rich flavor and creamy texture. However, it’s also high in saturated fat and made from pork, a meat that people ...

Chances are, you've heard that lard is enjoying a renaissance. From foodies proclaiming its superior baking properties to in-depth radio reports exploring its history in the American diet, lard has ...

Read more from Slate’s Food issue. Wait long enough and everything bad for you is good again. Sugar? Naturally better than high-fructose corn syrup. Chocolate? A bar a day keeps the doctor away.

Ok, let's try to figure out where your pie went wrong. So you didn't make enough dough and, as you (hilariously) said, it sat on the pie filling like a yarmulke. But I think the real problem was ...

A study investigating the use of lard-derived diacylglycerol (DG) as a fat replacer on the flavor characteristics of frankfurters detected 50 volatile compounds in the samples analyzed using gas ...