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Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Flaky

Culinary arts; Cooking

Adj. A term describing a food, such as pie crust, with a dry texture that easily breaks off into flat, flakelike pieces.

Coffee

Culinary arts; Cooking

Ethiopia is thought to be the motherland of the first coffee beans, which, throughout the ages, found their way to Brazil and Colombia — the two largest coffee producers today. Coffee plantations ...

Extracted from grape seeds, most of this oil comes from France, Italy or Switzerland, with a few sources now in the United States. Some grapeseed oils have a light "grapey" flavour and fragrance but ...

Horchata

Culinary arts; Cooking

Extremely popular in Spain and Mexico, horchatas are drinks made by steeping nuts, grains or chufa in water. They're usually lightly sweetened with sugar and sometimes spiced with cinnamon. ...

Fool

Culinary arts; Cooking

England is the home of this old-fashioned but delicious dessert made of cooked, pureed fruit that is strained, chilled and folded into whipped cream. The fruit mixture may be sweetened or not. Fool ...

Glögg

Culinary arts; Cooking

Especially popular during Advent, this Swedish spiced-wine punch gets its punch from the addition of aquavit or brandy. To take the chill off cold winter nights, it's served hot in cups with several ...