public palm oil • 8 min read Selling Sunshine William Lever was merely a megalomaniac and a marketer, but when he died, obituaries compared him both to Napoleon and to Henry Ford.…
public palm oil • 6 min read Whale On Toast For much of the time that humans hunted whales, we hunted them mostly for margarine.…
paid Project Notes • 7 min read Tallow to Margarine TW Lim on how we went from mining nature for particular fats, to mining fats for their components.…
members palm oil • 6 min read A Technological Shortcut TW Lim on palm oil, the primordial goop of our packaged consumer economy.…
public Project Notes • 7 min read Notes, 2023-06-19. TW Lim on the machinations of empire, the logistics of Madeira, and quaternary ammonium compounds.…
public Project Notes • 8 min read Notes, 2023-02-27 TW Lim on an intractable issue: making physical things is still often dirty, dangerous, or demeaning.…
The Prepared Archive • 7 min read 2022-11-21 TW Lim on industrial production and staple foods - from the ways geopolitics influence our diets to the intricacies of flour inspection.…
The Prepared Archive • 6 min read 2022-03-14 TW Lim on the complexity of food systems and Pi Day treats.…
public Feature • 6 min read A Never Ending Grind The mortar and pestle is one of the most common kitchen tools in the world, and one of the most…