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Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès’s Recipe for Margarine

An animation drawn from episode 225 of Distillations podcast, Butter vs. Margarine: One of America’s Most Bizarre Food Battles.

February 6, 2018

Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès' Recipe for Margarine

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