{"id":208,"date":"2004-10-19T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=208"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:05:30","slug":"keep_the_oil_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/keep_the_oil_in\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Oil In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a teen I worked with a chef (and bike mechanic) named Marcelo, and over lunch one day he passed on this culinary axiom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The better something tastes, the more likely it&#8217;s got a lot of fat in it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This took a while to sink in. I mean, I don&#8217;t watch what I eat. I hate it when I pick up the low-fat yogurt by mistake, when I really wanted 5 per cent. I eat real butter, not margarine. It&#8217;s not uncommon for me to take in half a cheesecake in one sitting.<br \/>\nBut one thing I couldn&#8217;t stand for years was the pool of oil at the top of a new jar of Adams Peanut Butter. I&#8217;m not a big fan of peanut products to begin with, but Adams&#8217; ingredients have always impressed me. Peanuts. That&#8217;s it. And peanut butter is fast and easy to use, relatively cheap and a source of protein.<br \/>\nBut that puddle of grease, it settles to the top during shipping I guess, or maybe robots squirt it there before sealing the jar. It&#8217;s one centimetre deep and the label instructs us &#8220;to blend in the natural oil.&#8221; Until recently I disregarded this advice and just skimmed the slick down the drain before digging into the stiff stuff.<br \/>\nHow na<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a teen I worked with a chef (and bike mechanic) named Marcelo, and over lunch one day he passed on this culinary axiom: The better something tastes, the more likely it&#8217;s got a lot of fat in it. This took a while to sink in. I mean, I don&#8217;t watch what I eat. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}