" Butter, butter, butter; every meal butter.
Companies pander to adults by offering more "sophisticated" versions of peanut butter, like artisan cashew butter and cinnamon maple butter and let's meet for martinis and talk about the stock market butter.
The fair's pedestals are generally reserved for local farm beauties willing to have their likenesses sculptured in 90-pound blocks of butter and for outstanding local artisans like the baking maestro Marjorie Johnson, poised once again to take on all comers, backed by the more than 2,550 ribbons she's won to date.
Once a tour guide in Africa, Annette Gibbons has dovetailed this experience with her considerable knowledge of food and devised short journeys of gluttonous discovery - meats, fish, cheese, butter, organic wheat and flour from artisan producers.
We're all about lining up for artisan eggs (like regular eggs, but with goat butter!) at the hip restaurant down the street, but that doesn't mean we should overlook the great regional chains that fry up consistency in multiple locations on the regular.
When butter is the main ingredient, splurging on artisan varieties seems like a good idea.
Some of his most striking photographs, in stark black and white, depict an array of artisans and ordinary people around the world plying their trades: women weaving and churning butter, men binding books and making harps and pipe organs and even waxwork heads.
At bistro-style Bouchon in the Venetian (+702 414 6200, venetian.com, from £70), Thomas Keller, he of French Laundry (California) and Per Se (New York) fame, offers bread with Vermont butter, a dozen types of oyster, mussels from Maine, lamb from his favourite farm in Pennsylvania and American artisan cheeses.
There are numberless chocolate artisans out there, many of them experimenting with Thanksgiving-unfriendly combinations like lemon grass, bacon and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
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