The lovely, oily liquid left once a vegetable is cooked is a perfect concentrate of everything that went into its cooking. It should be treated as a potion that has collected the imprint of the good butter and olive oil, cloves of garlic, lemon peels, sprigs of thyme, splashes of wine, cracks of pepper, and vegetable that created it.

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