Also, when and how to use it. Liudmila Chernetska / Getty Images It might not be an ingredient you hear about very often today, but lard has been used in kitchens around the world for centuries—and ...

It is often said that the four essential elements of cooking are salt, fat, acid, and heat. And while most people know their lemon juice from their red wine vinegar, or their crystal from their kosher ...

Lard was the canary in the coal mine of culinary correctness. Rendered pig fat was ubiquitous in human diets for centuries. It was used to fry everything from dough to chicken and was an essential ...

Jennifer McLagan celebrates the joys of cooking with fat in her book, Fat : An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes. She also discussed using leaf lard in cooking, especially in ...