lava tea and cooking oil

[asakiyume]

I have two new food treasures: One, from mnfaure (thank you my dear!), is Thé des songes, tea of dreams, which is fragrant and ethereal like dreams, but the look of it--black, with bursts of red and gold--is like the surface of a lava lake, so I think of it as lava tea.



And the other, red as blood, red as hot lava, is this bottle of palm oil!



And with this bottle of palm oil, I'm going to make *even more* of Flo Madubike's recipes. I'm going to start with this one, for fried beans.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I'd need to be well aware of the source of a palm oil before I'd buy it. I avoid any processed food which lists it as an ingredient.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's true, palm plantations are responsible for huge environmental devastation and displacement of indigenous populations.

This bottle of palm oil isn't guaranteed sustainable or anything else, but it's from Ghana, which at least means it's not from Indonesia, which is where I've heard of the worst abuses.

In this case, I feel the benefit from being able to share food with people far away outweighs the possible harm caused by my purchase of one bottle of palm oil.