the.com/garlic bread

Carbs and butter conspiring to make vegetables feel optional.

means Bread split or sliced, slathered with butter or oil and garlic, and toasted or baked until crisp-edged and fragrant.

from The combination is ancient in spirit — bread rubbed with garlic and oil goes back to peasant tables across the Mediterranean, a way to make stale bread worth eating again. The word 'garlic' itself traces to Old English 'gārlēac,' literally 'spear-leek,' from 'gār' (spear) describing the plant's pointed leaves. The familiar buttery, oven-toasted version loved today is largely a 20th-century development, especially popularized in American Italian-immigrant cooking, where it became the beloved sidekick to pasta dinners.

origin
Italian immigrants in America popularized it, not Italy
key ratio
garlic burns fast, so butter buys it time
peak form
crust crackles, center stays pillow soft
side effect
somehow always disappears before the main course
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