so, one of the big changes in my diet recently was buying a 2kg of manteiga de cacau, cocoa butter...

and i really want to tell everyone, if they can currently get their hands on it, grab it with both hands, because the drought in the main cacao production region of west africa has drastically diminished supplies of this resource, so the prices are gonna go up real fast real soon, if not already

this is magic stuff, and i am glad i got some just before the supply crunch started, it should be enough to get me into a much better state

but don't underestimate it

and, further, if you can't get cacao, of basically near equal value is beef tallow

the common factor is stearic acid, and both foods are wonder foods because of this, just that cacao got a more fancy name "food of the gods" theobroma

i'll be replenishing my stock of high stearate fats in the future with tallow but just wanted to put this out there, as i was just melting some up to fry an egg