Pressured to solve the ongoing cooking oil crisis in Indonesia, President Joko Widodo reshuffled his cabinet and appointed Zulkifli Hasan to replace the previous Minister of Trade, Muhammad Lutfi.
This week on the food science and history podcast Gastropod, hosts Nicola Twilley and Cynthia Graber discuss palm oil where it came from, what it’s used for, and why colonialists have destroyed nations for it despite the seriously negative environmental impact