On: A plea for culinary modernism (2001) [pdf]

[errantmind]

Congrats! That's an impressive number of years to stay on keto.

[kragen → errantmind]

i recently started dating someone who's been on keto for 20+ years

[Semaphor → kragen]

I didn't even remember it was that old (researched it a lot before I started, but mainly focused on studies about the effects and issues, not history, plus, well, 10 years ago). Must have been hard on the early days without easily available nut flours and tons of recipes online.

[kragen → Semaphor]

she likes doing difficult things. she's pretty amazing actually

it turns out it's more than a century old; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet#Diet