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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.…
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Whale On Toast
For much of the time that humans hunted whales, we hunted them mostly for margarine.…
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Tallow to Margarine
TW Lim on how we went from mining nature for particular fats, to mining fats for their components.…
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A Technological Shortcut
TW Lim on palm oil, the primordial goop of our packaged consumer economy.…
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