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Olive oil. Liquid gold. The reason the Mediterraneans live forever. The single most romanticised ingredient in modern cookery. The bottle on the counter you paid £18 for because it had a Tuscan hillside on the label and the words "extra virgin" printed in a serif font. Let's have a look at what you actually bought. There is a non-trivial chance, depending on which study you read, that the bottle in your kitchen has been cut with seed oils. The olive oil industry has been caught doing this so many times that Italian organised crime built an entire revenue stream around it. The FBI has a unit. The unit has been busy. You did not know this, because the bottle on your counter has a Tuscan hillside on it, and the Tuscan hillside has been doing the heavy lifting on the marketing for forty years. The polyphenols, the supposed miracle compounds that the entire Mediterranean diet narrative rests on, degrade rapidly with heat, light, and time. By the time the oil has been pressed, bottled, shipped, sat on a supermarket shelf for nine months, brought home, sat next to your hob for three more months, and finally poured into a hot pan, the polyphenol content is approximately what you would get from licking the label. You then heat it. Olive oil has a smoke point lower than butter and dramatically lower than tallow. The moment it begins to smoke, the few remaining polyphenols are destroyed and the oil itself begins oxidising into compounds nobody wants in their body. You are now cooking with a degraded industrial product wearing the costume of a peasant tradition. The Mediterraneans, by the way, did not eat olive oil in the quantities you have been led to believe. They ate olives. They cooked, primarily, in lard and animal fat, because animal fat was what you cooked in, everywhere, for the entire history of cooking, until a small group of researchers in the 1950s decided otherwise. The olive oil was for dressing salads and for lamps. The notion that the Mediterranean diet is built on olive oil is a marketing project, beautifully executed, that began in the 1970s and has not stopped since. Butter has a higher smoke point. Ghee higher still. Tallow higher again. All three contain the fat-soluble vitamins. All three are stable when heated. All three are cheaper. All three have not been cut with anything by an organised crime syndicate in the last six months. Cook in butter. Cook in tallow. Cook in lard, dripping, suet, duck fat, bacon grease. Keep the olive oil for the salad you are no longer eating.

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