Butter 🧈
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A pat of butter — the golden fat that French cuisine elevated to an art form and that every honest cook admits makes virtually everything taste better. Butter's combination of fat, milk proteins, and water creates flavor complexity that no substitute can replicate. French sauces, American biscuits, Japanese milk bread, Danish pastries — butter is the secret ingredient everywhere.

Julia Child's legendary enthusiasm for butter validated what cooks always knew. Added in 2019, used for baking and cooking content, French cuisine discussions, the honest acknowledgment that butter is why restaurant food tastes better, and general expressions of cooking richness and indulgence.