This recipe for frying carrots with melted parmesan, will give even the most die-hard carnivores a carrot craving.

But at dinner a few months ago, decades later, at the veg-tastic ABC Kitchen, I had some fantastic roasted vegetables with a certain familiar savor, a salty tang, a deep umami. And a little bit of crackle. Chef Dan Kluger told me the secret and, sure enough, it was the return of my old friend frico. Only he used an ingenious method: Roasting the cheese and vegetables together.

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