Now there's trans fat-free shortening, made of 100 percent palm oil. Conventional shortenings like Crisco are made of vegetable oil that's been hydrogenated, a process that results in unhealthy trans ...
Today, pre-Thanksgiving hysteria moves from the bird to the dessert. In The Times, Melissa Clark obsessively tests pie crust methods to conclude, at least for now, that a little duck fat makes the ...