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Pure and Simple? Cheese and Ghee

By Rachel Laudan June 16, 2014 Food History, Food Politics 21 Comments

Almost exactly a hundred years, in 1917, in Calcutta in India a controversy flared up about ghee (clarified butter). There ghee is no ordinary foodstuff.  It is a wondrous golden…

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