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• Belit

  12 June 2009, 3:05PM

  Belit

  In my experience, just about any ingredient can make a feast with the addition of butter, and/or cream, and/or bacon. Everything in moderation.

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• James

  12 June 2009, 9:35PM

  James

  "Fat has long been cast as the villain of the food world, but does it have more to offer than we think?" - you mean like flavour? Fat = flavour. It sounds like a must read. The health thing I'm sure has more to do with lack of exercise, than eating animal fats, which as carnivores, our bodies are adapted to.

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• Aedara

  12 June 2009, 10:41PM

  Aedara

  My boyfriend adds butter to everything in fact he usually uses it in the same quantities one might use cheese on toast, he also likes to cook everything in animal fat and add extra fat to anything possible. Now you'd think this would make him rather large but no it doesn't (although I'm not able to comment on the state of his arteries, mind you his father has been doing the same for about 60 years or something and has the blood pressure of a twenty year old). Really I think its how much you eat rather than what you eat for the most part. Isn't life better with some real flavour even if its not as wonderful for you as it could be?

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• LarderLout

  13 June 2009, 11:43AM

  LarderLout

  A worthy pilgrimage is one to Tuscany to sample the delights of lardo. Pure, creamy white pork fat sliced thinly, it melts in mere seconds when you pop it on your tongue, or slather it over toast. It's as joyful as eating gets.

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• sioden

  13 June 2009, 12:37PM

  sioden

  I was eating in Y Polyn in Nantgtaredig, near Carmarthen last week and all the waitresses had T shirts, which had "Fat = Flavour, Deal with it" on the back. I thought they were fabulous, and it's true, but as they say - everything in moderation!!

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• miniminx

  14 June 2009, 12:33PM

  miniminx

  i personally think fat in its pure form is pretty gross - i can't stand pork belly, for example. the texture makes me want to throw up! the thought of of the fat on cooked meat is similarly disgusting to me. but having said all that, fat as a cooking ingredient is pretty unbeatable. baking without butter is unthinkable, and grilled sausages are just a shame! use fat responsibly and you can't go wrong :)

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• Caity

  15 June 2009, 5:56PM

  Caity

  Toad-in-the-hole!!!! Can you imagine how bad that would be with no fat?

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• CloClo

  15 June 2009, 6:10PM

  CloClo

  My dad makes the best toad-in-the-hole ever - he uses lard. My favourite meal contains pork belly. If I have scrambled eggs, the toast must be dripping in butter (strangely, my daily boiled egg must be accompanied by unbuttered toast??). I love mushrooms cooked in butter, then piled onto a piece of bread with all the juices. And I have never been overweight in my life!

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• CloClo

  15 June 2009, 6:11PM

  CloClo

  Forgot to say, my sister will spend 5 minutes at meals picking every tiny bit of fat off meat, and even takes apart a ham sandwich to check. She just can't stand the texture.

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• fernie

  15 June 2009, 7:13PM

  fernie

  My grandfather was a very successful butcher for many years and died at a ripe old age having enjoyed excellent beef marbled with fat, fabulous roast pork with crackling (my mother was brilliant at this) and so on. He also lead a very active life. Is there something in this?. I love finishing off barbequed lamb cutlets by sucking the bones to get that wonderful flavour. I'm a size 8, and love my food. I am very active. Any clues there?

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• Lushious

  15 June 2009, 9:21PM

  Lushious

  I remember a time when I spent hours preparing and cooking a wonderful Gary Rhodes recipe for pork belly to serve to friends, who proceeded to cut off all the unctuous fat and crispy crackling - I could have wept!!! My husband will happily remove every morsel of fat from absolutely everything which drives me spare. I will never make him a bacon sandwich anymore because he ends up taking it apart and removing the fat even after I have already done it (but not to his standards!). Unfortunately he has passed this on to my daughter, but luckily, my son does not give a monkeys!!!

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• lulu@olivemagazine

  16 June 2009, 11:47AM

  lulu@olivemagazine

  Cloclo - my sister is a fat remover as well, every little scrap. Though she does love butter on toast.

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• dandifiedviolence

  16 June 2009, 12:34PM

  dandifiedviolence

  Humans have been eating animal fats for thousands of years - it's actually been proven that wheat is the thing that has done us all in. We're not designed to eat wheat. It's not fat that's bad for us, it's refined white bread and stuff like that.

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• Vicky

  18 June 2009, 10:36AM

  Vicky

  I love fat. Duck fat, butter, olive oil and pork fat are favourites of mine. I often poach food in fat; tomatoes or fish in olive oil, poultry legs in duck fat, and pork loins in pork fat. Absolutely delicious! And I am not fat. Moderation and a very varied diet with lots of vegetables is the key.

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• Heidi

  20 June 2009, 2:46PM

  Heidi

  You woudn't be able to get all of the vitamins you need without having some fat in your diet. Also lots of hormones are made using fats as raw ingredients. It's an important part of our diet. We shouldn't forget oily fish though, I'm planning some barbequed herring later. The oil in the fish will make the skin all crispy, it's got loads of Omega 3 in it and cost me £1 from the fishmongers this morning. Duck fat is a beautiful thing too. I always think it has a slight fruity aroma and taste. Aren't levels of heart disease really low in the regions of France who consume high levels of duck and goose?

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• JakobO

  22 June 2009, 11:16AM

  JakobO

  Well, that’s some kind of delicious food but eating too much could lead to some diseases. Why don’t you try sushi food? Sushi is low in fat and is a very nutritious food. The great thing about sushi, perhaps, it’s more than some other types of ethnic foods. June 18th was purported as being National Sushi Day, even though no one had ever heard of it before. It seems to be one of those internet holidays, made up by marketing departments to get people to buy stuff – it's not as if that isn't a distinct possibility. Most people who have written about it so far have all pointed out that they had never heard of National Sushi Day, and that it is probably spurious. At any rate, those who go for it might file into Japanese restaurants and get in on celebrating the suspicious National Sushi Day. You may visit http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/06/18/national-sushi-day-mint-restaurants/ to read more.

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• Grace

  22 June 2009, 5:45PM

  Grace

  It amazes me how so many of the population would rather be slimmer, yet go around eating such calorie dense foods. It's ridiculous. And when it becomes a drain on the NHS, frankly it makes me angry.

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• Chrissy

  22 June 2009, 11:35PM

  Chrissy

  I remember as a child being given beef dripping on toast. It was great. When I tell people, they are horrified and couldn't beleive we ate pure fat. Because the dripping that comes off the beef joint I pour all the juices & fat off and make the gravy with it. Very tasty. Nothing wrong with a little fat in moderation.

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• nicky

  23 June 2009, 8:16PM

  nicky

  I think the key to the NHS overload is that a large percentage of the adult population of the UK have become obese due to a lack of physical exercise. I agree with dandifiedviolence - we are not designed to eat refined wheat. We eat far too much of it in the UK. Many of us eat wheat cereal, pasta and white bread at every meal and wonder why we feel sluggish and lazy...bit of a vicious circle! Lately I have cut down on wheat and upped my fruit and veg (and animal protein which actually makes me feel fuller for longer) and have noticed a marked improvement in my energy levels (and weight), so that I WANT to go for a bike ride or the gym instead of slumping in front of the TV of an evening! Still eat crispy bacon and home-made cakes made with butter, though...just not every day.

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• Grace

  24 June 2009, 12:49AM

  Grace

  Recent reports have found that the obesity crisis is far more due to calrie intake than "lack of exercise", which has apparently not actually diminished significantl furing the last few decades. And to burn off the calories one takes in when they guzzle down a slice of cake or suchlike takes many, many times longer that they spent enjoying said cake. Don't eat it in the first place.

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