Better Believe It’s Butter

Butter is beautiful: solid golden bars add the perfect flakiness to
pastry, give cake a delightfully tender springiness, and melt
mouth-wateringly onto toast. But unlike its cousin, cheese—another
concentrated, solidified form of milk—we don’t tend to think of
butter as something that’s available in hundreds of varieties, each
with a different flavor, color, and texture. Nor do we necessarily
consider a dairymaid costume to be a uniform of women’s
empowerment. But we should. This episode, we explore the science
behind butter’s subtle variations, as well as its long history as a
vehicle for both ritual worship and female entrepreneurship around
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