In this enchanted first episode of The Grim-Grinning Gourmet, Dickie covers the offbeat if economically- and politically-motivated journey of margarine.

From its birth in FRANCE as Chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriè's lab-created butter alternative to the legislation and lobbies that shaped its journey overseas in America, we'll talk through some science, snark, and buttery adversaries that made this food...kind of a whole thing?

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