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MarketBasket: Look to coconut oil for butter replacement

Pass the butter The latest trendy butter replacement is coconut oil, and Philadelphia company Lafiya Foods is offering a tasty version that you can feel good about. Their cold-pressed, extra-virgin, organic coconut oil is made from coconuts harvested from family and cooperatively owned farms in West Africa. Spread it on bread or toast, or use it to saute vegetables for a curry.

Coconut oil from Lafiya Foods of Philadelphia.
Coconut oil from Lafiya Foods of Philadelphia.Read more

Pass the butter

The latest trendy butter replacement is coconut oil, and Philadelphia company Lafiya Foods is offering a tasty version that you can feel good about. Their cold-pressed, extra-virgin, organic coconut oil is made from coconuts harvested from family and cooperatively owned farms in West Africa. Spread it on bread or toast, or use it to saute vegetables for a curry.

- Samantha Melamed
Lafiya Foods Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, $16 at Green Aisle Grocery, 1618 E. Passyunk Ave., Philadelphia, 215-465-1411.

Tabletop graphics

Serve olive oil in these terraced dishes to add a graphic punch to your table. The designer, Mary Judge, graduated from and taught classes at the Moore College of Art & Design.

- S.M.
Mary Judge Dipping Dish, $20 at the Art Shop at Moore, 20th and Race Streets, Philadelphia, 215-965-8586.