From Hearth to Bottle: How We Replaced Fire, Fat & Wisdom (130.02.016)

🎙️ For most of human history, we cooked over fire with butter, lard, and tallow. Then, in just over a century, everything changed.

In this episode of Spill the Tea with D & E, Dominique and Erica trace the forgotten history of cooking fats—from the hearth kitchens of the 1800s to the rise of industrial seed oils—and ask a question no one seems to be asking:

What if the modern chronic disease epidemic didn’t come from tradition… but from replacing it?

We unpack how Crisco, wartime rationing, aggressive advertising, and government dietary guidelines quietly rewired the American kitchen. How animal fats were labeled “dangerous,” while ultra-processed seed oils became the norm. And how that 110-year shift parallels a shocking rise in obesity, metabolic disease, and inflammation.

This isn’t nostalgia.

It’s food history, marketing psychology, and cultural memory colliding.

If you’ve ever wondered why your grandmother cooked in butter—and why everything today comes sizzling in vegetable oil—this episode is for you.

☕ Tea is poured.

🔥 Myths are melted.

🧠 History does the talking.

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We didn’t stop cooking in butter because it failed us.

We stopped because we were sold something “new.”

From hearth fires to hydrogenated oils, this episode traces the quiet 110-year shift that rewrote our kitchens—and our health.

Your great-grandmother wasn’t confused.

She just wasn’t marketed to. ☕🔥

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