The Sublime Combination of Butter and Soy (Published 2014)Credit...Christina Holmes for The New York Times; Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Deborah Williams. Who knows who first mixed soy sauce and butter and discovered the pleasures the combination provides. Try the mixture on warm white rice, a steaming pile of greens or an old sneaker — regardless, the taste is a sublime velvet of sweet and salty, along with a kind of pop the cognoscenti
