chapter 1 Crystallography / chapter 2 Crystallization Kinetics / chapter 3 Lipid Phase Behavior / chapter 4 Rheology Fundamentals and Structural Theory of Elasticity / chapter 5 Viscoelasticity / chapter 6 Dynamic Methods / chapter 7 Microstructure / chapter 8 The Yield Stress and Elastic Modulus of a Fat Crystal Network / chapter 9 Experimental Methodology / chapter 10 Scaling Behavior of the Elastic Modulus in Colloidal Networks of Fat Crystals / chapter 11 Comparison Between Image Analyses Methods for the Determination of the Fractal Dimension of Fat Crystal Networks / chapter 12 The Nature of Fractility in Fat Crystal Networks / chapter 13 Identifying Key Indicators of Mechanical Strength in Mixtures of Milk Fat Fractions and Cocoa Butter / chapter 14 The Functionality of Milk Fat Fractions in Confectionery and Plastic Fats / chapter 15 Liquid-Multiple Solid Phase Equilibria in Fats: Theory and Experiments / chapter 16 Imaging of a Model Plastic Fat System by Dimensional Wide-Field Transmitted Polarized Light Microscopy and Image Deconvolution