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Somerset's (forgotten) fats

Could recent failures of common cooking oils mean we revert to more local, traditional cooking mediums?

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Apr 10, 2024
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Advert from 1937. Before it caught on as a household cooking item, olive oil was primarily marketed and sold in the UK as a soap or skincare product

Olive oil – the UK’s favourite cooking oil – is in a bit of a crisis. Harvests in Spain, which produce half of the world’s crop, have fallen by 70-80% in recent times due to drought and rising temperatures, …

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