My love affair with coconut goes back to my childhood when my father would crack open a fresh coconut with a hammer and separate the dense “meat” from the shell to give all of us a sweet, chewy treat.

Everyone is raving about the health benefits of coconut oil these days. But how does one separate fact from fiction? And why tackle a new ingredient when old standbys—vegetable and olive oil—are ...

Circa 2008, there was a single ingredient that started making its way into just about everything: bacon. Without its magical touch, it seemed nothing would ever be the same. By god, bacon had never ...

When Donald Palmquist started working at Whole Foods in Louisville seven years ago, few people requested coconut oil. “We had one small shelf of coconut oil products, but that’s changed dramatically,” ...

There is a healthy alternative to butter. Saganà, the plant-based spread, is made from 81-percent pure, nonhydrogenated coconut oil, 15-percent water and 1.5-percent salt. To my palate, it tastes like ...

During the past two decades, coconut products have diversified on grocery store shelves. Coconut water is now available as a refreshing sports drink. Safeway offered at least eight different brands of ...