Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

Industry: Culinary arts

Add a new term

Contributors in Cooking

Become a Contributors

Cooking

Hardtack

Culinary arts; Cooking

Also called ship biscuit and sea bread, this large, hard biscuit is made with an unsalted, unleavened flour-and-water dough. After it's baked, hardtack is dried to lengthen shelf life. It's been ...

Bellelay cheese

Culinary arts; Cooking

Also called Tête de Moine ("monk's head"), this rich, semisoft cheese is made in Switzerland and has a flavour similar to that of gruyère. It is named after the monastery where it originated, the ...

Cheese steak

Culinary arts; Cooking

Also called Philadelphia cheese steak after the illustrious city that's said to have originated this sandwich in the 1930s. It consists of an Italian or French roll topped by thin slices of beef, ...

Barmbrack

Culinary arts; Cooking

An Irish bread with raisins or currants and candied fruit peel. It's generally slathered with butter and served as a tea accompaniment. Literally translated it means "yeast bread," although it's ...

An Italian omelette that usually has the ingredients mixed with the eggs rather than being folded inside, as with a French omelet. It can be flipped or the top can be finished under a broiling unit. ...

Clam bake

Culinary arts; Cooking

An informal beachfront meal where clams, corn-on-the-cob and other foods including lobsters, mussels, potatoes and onions are cooked in a pit of hot rocks topped with seaweed, all of which is covered ...