Should You Use Lard Instead of Butter When Making a Pie Crust? Does it make the flakiest, most flavorful pastry? It depends who you ask. Ask a random sampling of pastry chefs, bakers, and home cooks ...

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 ...

Two popular types of fat used for crisping fries and other deep-fried snacks are beef tallow and lard. But while they are both fats, are they the same?

Dear Dr. Blonz: I use pork fat to fry chicken and steaks. I find the taste infinitely superior to butter for most cooking needs, and it's not harming my cholesterol in the least. I attribute this to ...

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 ...