In ancient Ireland, they would give butter as an offering to the fairies because they were thought to be mischievous and harbingers of bad luck. The Vedic Aryans who preceded the Hindus in India worshipped the fire god Agni, and one of the rituals was throwing butter into a fire, which made it crackle and dance, all the while the read these verses and praises of butter. I was most astonished by the fact that butter was used as a sacred tool in many cultures around the world. You travelled all over the place studying butter. Coconut oil is very saturated, which is why it becomes solid at room temperature, and yet everyone extolls it as a health food. It's definitely that saturated fat is bad for you.
What do you think the big misconceptions about butter are for North Americans? What's really cool about your book is the cross-cultural and travel angles used to explore butter in different regions and climates. We've gotten really good at improving the mechanics of the heart with stents and bypass, but our diets are still really unhealthy because they rely on processed foods and there is so much sugar in our diets. I think it has a lot more to do with processed food and margarine and the introduction of trans fats. Life expectancy was a lot lower a century ago is it possible that people didn't live long enough to get heart disease? Heart disease exploded-it was off the charts by the end of the century. So it went to 17 pounds to about four-and-a-half pounds of butter per year.īut heart disease started becoming a real problem. By the end of the century, butter consumption dropped because of all the anti-fat campaigns that we were subjected to. In Europe it was probably even more, but there was very little heart disease.
In the early 1900s, in North American, people were eating, on average, 17 pounds of butter each per year. How much butter did people eat back in the day?
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