Summary: Food writer and Eater’s editor-at-large Helen Rosner has the simplest secret-ingredient tip in all of cookendom: Transforming a dish with one new ingredient feels magical, like you’re the Ratatouille rat chomping on a big mouthful of cheese and strawberry. It inspires some people to carry around hot sauce or a proprietary salt mix. It’s especially revelatory to those of us who grew up on the bland flavors of the midwest.
