["It seems funny," Silver says, "but for thousands of years this was the thing that people cooked with.] Not true. Olive oil use go as far as 5000BC. Lots of o

["It seems funny," Silver says, "but for thousands of years this was the thing that people cooked with.] Not true. Olive oil use go as far as 5000BC. Lots of other animal fat were used too. Germanic countries used Lard a lot, they needed enormous amount of fat to survive the winter. By the way, in my opinion Germanic food is one of the worst in the world, and I had traveled a lot. They also used a lot of butter. Going to the north people used seals, whales and even bears. In North America they ate Buffalos, in Ecuador they ate llamas. In China they used lots of different fats. Only a small amount of people in the ancient world ate big amounts of lard in their food.