Alison Roman's salted butter chocolate chunk shortbread cookies are everywhere. Bon Appétit, Eater, Nylon, Smitten Kitchen and The New York Times have covered them in glowing detail; The Cookies pop up on my Instagram discover feed literally every day. The best recipes are more than the sum of their parts, but the sheer volume of breathless, googly-eyed reviews suggest that a concerning number of people have lived deprived, salted-butter-cookie-less lives until now.

Steamed edamame, sprinkled with a little salt, is a fine snack or appetiser, but edmame that is sauteed in butter and garlic, and then sprinkled with some seasoning, is impossible to stop eating.

Hot buttered rum is so good in theory, but in practice, it always disappoints. Slurping a film of butter off your top lip is a bit much, even for those of us who would eat a stick of butter like a banana were society ready to accept us.

Steak has always been my favourite protein, and I tend to favour cuts of the bone-in variety. But once the meat has been consumed and the martini has been polished off, it always seems kind of sad to toss the bone, which is too small to make an appreciable amount of broth.

Have you noticed that some of Australia’s favourite baked goods, such as croissants and buttery biscuits, have been creeping up in price? This becomes less surprising when one considers that globally, the price of butter has risen by around 60% over the past year.

Today's kids have thousands of apps and educational programmes that tell them how to eat healthily. When I was growing up, we learned the Food Pyramid. We categorised grub into four food groups and that was pretty much it. But look back a bit farther, and dietary advice gets a little weirder: in the early 1950s, there were seven food groups, and one was just for butter.

It seems as though I am forever buying butter. I'm not complaining at all -- having a lot of butter around makes me feel warm and safe -- but I often find myself unwrapping a lot, depending on the type of projects I have going on.

Though I like to bake, I don't consider myself a "serious baker". Sure, I make my own pie crust and can bake a pretty decent loaf of bread, but one thing I have wanted to mess with is puff pastry.

Only 20 years ago butter was the public villain – contributing to raised cholesterol levels and public concern over an increased risk of heart disease. Now this public perception seems to have been reversed, and reality cooking shows seem to use butter in every recipe. But what has caused this shift in perceptions and is it based on scientific evidence?

A roux by any other name is still a roux, but maybe that other name should be "fat and flour paste thickener", because the fancy French name seems to put people off.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to a very buttery and savoury edition of Will It Sous Vide?, the column where I make things with my immersion circulator.

Thin, watery sauces are just plain unappealing, but they aren't quite the disaster they seem. To thicken up as sad sauce, you just need butter, cornstarch and time.

Good-looking food tastes better, and playful presentation can make dinner that much more enjoyable. Edible butter candles perform double duty by adding ambience and a healthy substantial serving of sexy, tasty whimsy.

I'm an equal opportunity cookie eater and, while I love a thin, crispy cookie, I firmly believe there's a time and a place for a soft, fluffy one as well. (The time is always and the place is my mouth.) According to delish, the secret to getting soft, cloud-like cookies every time is simple: just replace the butter with cream cheese.

You may have heard that a humid kitchen can adversely affect your pie dough, making it wet and sticky, but it's actually the temperature of your ingredients and equipment that are to blame.

Butter makes everything better, but the milk solids (which will burn) within it mean it's not the best candidate for high temperature cooking. Clarified butter (also known as "ghee"), on the other hand, is lacking such solids, making it a super delicious choice for frying.

Whenever I roast a whole chicken, I am most excited for two things: The skin and the fat. Not only is shmaltz a great cooking fat, it's pretty good on bread, and Chef Katie Button has harnessed its greatness by whipping it with butter.

You've probably heard of apple butter, but almost any fruit can be made into a delicious, spreadable butter. You just need a bunch of fruit, a cup of sugar, a pinch of salt, some lemon and your trusty slow cooker.

Popcorn is the perfect food to munch on because it's easy to make and it can take on so many different flavours. If you want a savoury, umami-packed snack, a little soy sauce in your popcorn butter is all you need.