Italian, Greek, Japanese, Thai and even Indian cuisine, for example, never included so much cream, butter, palm fat, rapeseed oil and mayonnaise. Sugar and sweet sauces are almost never included in Mediterranean savoury dishes. Yet, pub and restaurant meals, as well as supermarket ready-made meals, are full of those ingredients. Why does one need mayonnaise in sushi? Why would a so-called Greek salad need a sweet sauce? And why the hell do we need all this cream in so many meals?


