Store your butter in this elegant and sleek deep-blue ceramic butter bowl topped with an intricately engraved wooden lid depicting a highland cow. Americans can be a bit squeamish about refrigeration, insisting that many kitchen staples need to be kept cold, when -- in fact -- there's no reason to cram your refrigerator with items that actually taste and perform better when left on the counter. Tomatoes, mustard and many other items tend to be just fine at room temperature. Same with butter -- and it's nice and easy to spread when left out of the fridge. You can, of course, also put this bowl into your refrigerator.
