While the first margarine arrived in Europe at the end of the 1860s due to a butter shortage, it was made with beef tallow churned with milk. We've come a long way since then. During the 20th century, ...

Here’s an interesting piece of food facts trivia: Did you know that we have Napoleon III to thank for margarine? He offered a prize to whomever could invent a cheap butter substitute to feed the ...

Since margarine was first invented back in the 1860s as a cheaper alternative to butter, debates have been waged on which is healthier. Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of ...

(Mental Floss)-- How well do you know your margarine history? Let's take a look at the origins of the butter substitute, and the dairy lobby's attempts to defeat it. Where did the name "margarine" ...

The recent storm in a china teacup over the constituents of a National Trust scone has once more brought into sharp focus the contentious question of food substitutes, none more so than the use of ...