butter and marg - thought this was interesting

[sunshine_sieben]

Oh, I don't know exactly where. I jsut seem to have stumbled over it a few times over the last couple of weeks.
Sasa

ETA: I have just done a BB search on nourishing traditions and haven't found many references to "Nourishing Traditions". Maybe I got confused. i must have stumbled over references to this book while looking into raw milk...

[Bathsheba]

So true about cultured butters... I often buy the Danish (I think) Girgar butter to make shortbread. The French cultured butters are lovely too. Speaking of the French... they have a great attitude toward food and they are renown for using lots of butter yet are way below us on national obesity rates, in fact as a culture they are known to be very trim on average... interesting hey? Their philosophy seems to be to eat the real stuff but in smaller quantities. I am hugely inspired by the book French Women Don't Get Fat. Many of the ideas we have discussed in this thread are in that book. Best of all French women don't label treat foods like chocolate and cream as "naughty"... they would think it a bit embarrassing for you to say that you have to deny yourself these foods... they are very open about enjoying them but do so in moderation... plus they seem to walk more than the average Aussie/American (according to the book). Lots of good food for thought. And also apparently alot of French women consider leek broth a good cleansing food to have after you have over indulged with rich food.... they also think it rude/strange to eat standing up or while walking along the street... or "on the go" like we so often do. When they eat it is more ritualistic and therefore they enjoy the the whole process a lot more and actually notice how their bodies are responding to the food they eat ie they tend not to over eat as much as we do. All habits I think the obesely populated countries could learn from FAR more than simply believing that margarine is better than butter.