Scientia Gras

Since 1994 over 20 articles have appeared in the series Historical Perspective published in inform, the news/membership magazine of the American Oil Chemists' Society. Most of the articles came from Europe and North America, but there are also contributions from India, Argentina, and New Zealand. This is not history as academic historians would recognize it, with every opinion checked, but rather verbal pictures remembered by those who took center-stage in the events recorded. When younger colleagues wonder what lipid science was like before chromatography, before spectroscopy, and before computers, then these articles will provide part of the answer.