Make America Healthy Again — seed oil free cooking with ancestral fats.
Exotic Recipes
Peruvian ceviche is raw fish 'cooked' in lime juice with ají amarillo, red onion, and coriander. The leche de tigre (tiger's milk) — the marinating liquid — is the most celebrated part. Finished with a touch of coconut oil.
Exotic Recipes
Kitfo is Ethiopia's celebrated beef tartare — finest minced beef dressed in niter kibbeh (spiced clarified butter) and mitmita (a hot chilli spice blend). Served raw or lightly warmed, with injera and ayib (fresh cheese).
Exotic Recipes
Mongolian suutei tsai is salted milk tea with a knob of butter — the daily drink of the Mongolian steppe. Similar to Tibetan butter tea but made with black tea, whole milk, and salt rather than yak butter and pu-erh.
Coffee Recipes
Cold brew concentrate mixed with full-fat coconut cream instead of dairy creamer or seed oil-based coffee whitener. Rich, smooth, naturally sweet from the coconut, and completely seed oil free.
Coffee Recipes
Golden milk is turmeric, black pepper, and warming spices in warm milk with a spoonful of ghee. The fat is essential — curcumin, turmeric's active compound, is fat-soluble and only absorbed properly when consumed with fat.
Coffee Recipes
Turkish coffee is unfiltered, brewed in a small copper pot called a cezve, intensely strong, and served with the grounds settled at the bottom of the cup. Adding cardamom and a touch of ghee is the Middle Eastern tradition.
Coffee Recipes
The Ethiopian coffee ceremony is one of the world's great coffee rituals — three rounds of decreasing strength coffee, served with popcorn and incense. Traditional additions include a pinch of salt and niter kibbeh (spiced clarified butter).
Coffee Recipes
Ca phe trung is Hanoi's famous egg coffee — a thick, sweet, meringue-like egg yolk cream floated on strong Vietnamese drip coffee. This seed oil free version uses butter in the egg cream for additional richness.
Hawaiian Recipes
Huli huli chicken is Hawaii's roadside BBQ — whole chickens or pieces glazed in a sweet-savoury sauce of soy, ginger, pineapple juice and brown sugar, grilled over charcoal. Basted in tallow instead of seed oil.
Hawaiian Recipes
Hawaiian macaroni salad is a staple of the plate lunch — creamy, slightly sweet, and essential alongside kalua pig and rice. This version uses olive oil-based mayonnaise instead of commercial mayo made with soybean oil.
Hawaiian Recipes
Hawaiian garlic shrimp trucks line the North Shore of Oahu, the most famous being Giovanni's shrimp truck. The recipe is simple: head-on shrimp cooked in an aggressive amount of garlic and butter. This is the seed oil free version.
Hawaiian Recipes
Laulau is one of Hawaii's oldest dishes — pork and butterfish wrapped in taro leaves and steamed until meltingly tender. The taro leaves act as a natural steamer and add a subtle earthy flavour. Cooked in its own rendered fat.
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