Make America Healthy Again — seed oil free cooking with ancestral fats.
African Recipes
The complete guide to suya spice — the peanut-based West African spice blend called yaji — and how to use it on beef, chicken, and vegetables grilled with beef tallow. The flavour that defines northern Nigerian cooking.
Cookie Recipes
Sablés bretons are the butter biscuits of Brittany — made with the region's famously salted butter, egg yolks, and flour only. Thick, crumbly, deeply buttery. The French answer to Scottish shortbread.
Cookie Recipes
Cantucci — the original Tuscan biscotti — are twice-baked almond biscuits made in olive oil and butter, not butter alone. The twice-baking creates the dry, hard texture designed for dipping in vin santo.
African Recipes
Chin chin is Nigeria's beloved fried dough snack — small, crunchy pieces of sweetened dough deep-fried in lard until golden. Made for celebrations and gifted at Christmas and Eid. The original uses lard.
African Recipes
Kaab el ghazal — gazelle horns — are Morocco's most elegant biscuit. Almond paste fragrant with orange blossom and cinnamon enclosed in a thin, barely sweet butter pastry, shaped into crescents. Served at celebrations.
Cookie Recipes
Lebkuchen are Germany's traditional Christmas spiced biscuits — built on Lebkuchengewürz (a blend of cinnamon, anise, ginger, clove, and cardamom), honey, and butter. Made since the 14th century in Nuremberg.
Asian Recipes
Japanese butter cookies are sold in tins in every Japanese convenience store and bakery — thin, crisp, intensely buttery, and made with a higher butter ratio than Western versions. The secret is the piped technique.
MAHA Recipes
Canola oil is extracted from rapeseed using hexane solvent and high heat, then deodorised to remove the rancid smell. Here is what the science shows.
MAHA Recipes
A practical step-by-step guide to eliminating seed oils from your diet and replacing them with butter, ghee, tallow, lard and coconut oil.
Detox Recipes
Seed oils oxidise at frying temperatures and form aldehydes. Here is what that means in the kitchen. Here is the full breakdown.
MAHA Recipes
Seed oils are industrial fats extracted from seeds using chemical solvents and heat — vegetable oil, canola, sunflower, soybean. Here is what makes them different.
African Recipes
African cuisine across all regions was built on ancestral fats — palm oil, shea butter, ghee, coconut oil, tallow. The seed oil version of African food is a 20th century industrial substitution.
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