The Main Ingredient: ; Lard vs. butter; Our test reveals what makes the very best biscuits

From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: February 3, 2008| Author: Robert J. Byers | Copyright information

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"I think I'm going to write about lard this week," I (Tara) mentioned in a staff meeting.

Lips curled in quickly hidden distaste. A few kindly souls nodded politely with fixed smiles, the way my parents did when I announced I was majoring in journalism.

"Ah," said the managing editor, by which she meant, "Yuck."

Obviously my co-workers aren't food snobs. Because if they were, they'd be proudly dousing everything they...

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