This once common fat is popular again among cooks in the know, and for good reason. Aside from its historical context, it's important to note that not all lard is created equal. Just as the quality of ...

Editor's note: This story was written by former Foodday staff writer Leslie Cole and first published in The Oregonian By Leslie Cole My name is Leslie and I'm a lardaholic. Well, more like an ...

Q. Where can I find leaf lard for pie crusts? I have no trouble finding supermarket lard, but it always seems to be full of preservatives. Lard has an undeservedly awful reputation in our ...

The sources that follow are a mix of farms raising pigs on pasture or businesses sourcing lard from pastured pigs. Some offer leaf lard, the creamy sheath of fat that surrounds the kidney, while ...

Cube Cafe and Marketplace on La Brea. Call Surfas in advance because they sell out quickly, especially during pie centered holiday times. Cube sells the beloved Wooly Pig lard for $16 for a 4 lb. tub.

But good luck finding the pork fat at the grocery store A friend recently presented a tempting challenge: if I could locate a kind of animal fat called leaf lard, she would bake one of her perfect ...

The mound of fat, snowy white and glistening, wobbled as cook Jn Francois Normil sliced into it. Cut from around the loin and kidneys of one of Rosy Tomorrows' recently butchered Red Wattle hogs, ...

I just learned that there will be leaf lard available at the UD farmers’ market this weekend. Hallelujah! It’s the softest, sweetest, bestest lard a pig gives, straight from the fat surrounding the ...

Having read food writer Melissa Clark’s trial-by-error tale of finding pie-crust perfection — thanks to a pig and its kidney-fat — I’ve long had a hankering ...