The Most Sacred Food on Earth Is Now Your Average Cooking Fat. Here’s What We Lost.
Ghee was once so sacred it anointed kings and enlightened monks, listed among the ‘Eight Delicacies’ of imperial China. Industrialization made it cheap and ubiquitous—but killed its mystique. This article explores the hidden cost of abundance: the death of awe. We traded the sacred for the shelf-stable, and we need to ask if it was worth it.