Remember the Woody Allen movie Sleeper, where a cryogenically frozen man wakes up 200 years later to find that junk food is good for you? In her James Beard Award-winning cookbook Fat: An Appreciation of A Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes (Ten Speed Press), Jennifer McLagan conjures the same kind of culinary-utopian fantasy. Only -- cover your eyes, fatphobes -- it's no fantasy. This book has hard-science cred.
Fat is an integral part of our diet, but its popularity tanked in the 1950s wh