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