Posted on 03/03/2024 1:51:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
I use Avocado oil for most my cooking and Wagyu Beef Tallow for my steak and fries.
Avocado is an excellent substitute. It has a high smoke point and neutral taste.
Olive oil to my wife is like chocolate to me. Cost be damned!
2nd on avocado oil for a high smoke point oil.
Agreed. When it comes to salads, there is nothing like extra virgin olive oil.
Health wise my guess would be coconut oil.
I recommend 10W40 motor oil. :-P
Legendary Roman Pliny the Elder famously wrote: “There are two liquids most pleasing to human bodies... inside: wine; outside: olive oil.”
(I’ve never quite understood it. Was olive oil like the iced tea or Arnold Palmer of ancient times, guzzled outside on hot days?)
In the ancient world, olive oil was currency, just as cowhides were currency.
They’d be able to make you an offer you couldn’t refuse…
Or maybe 2190-TEP
From your quote, maybe he meant applied to the skin topically.
When it comes to Greek salads there is nothing like Minerva extra virgin olive oil and Dodoni feta.
Next....bugs...not just bugs...gourmet bugs...fried in EV Olive Oil.
Possible alternatives to olive oil. Don’t know if the cost is any better though. Depends on product and area:
1. Grapeseed Oil
2. Canola Oil
3. Sunflower Oil
4. Peanut Oil
5. Avocado Oil
6. Walnut Oil
7. Flaxseed Oil
8. Sesame Oil
9. Ghee
Each has goods and bads about them. But these are the ones the site I looked at displayed.
https://www.greenchef.com/eat/ingredient-swap/olive-oil-substitutions
wy69
Tobacco leaves were currency in Va.
IF...you have the room...you all/me need to stock more up.
Beans, Tuna, Salmon, Greens, Dried Meat...etc.
That’s a very interesting idea.
Let’s take a look at the Latin original...
“Duo sunt liquores humanis corporibus gratissimi, intus vini, foris olei”
Intus
at home
within, on the inside, inside
https://latin-dictionary.net/definition/24595/intus
or
“on the inside, within
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=intus&la=la&can=intus0
Foris
1 foris, out at the doors, out of doors, abroad, without :
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0060%3Aentry%3Dforis2&highlight=foris2
So, “intus” could very well mean taken internally, but “foris” seems to mainly mean “outdoors.” However, I suppose Pliny could be using the “without” meaning in which case your interpretation could be right!
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