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Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Apee

Culinary arts; Cooking

Dating back to the 1800s, this soft, sour cream-based sugar cookie takes its name from the initials of its creator, Philadelphia cook Ann Page.

Gallimaufry

Culinary arts; Cooking

Culinarily, this word refers to any dish with a hodgepodge of ingredients, such as a stew, ragoûT or hash.

Acesulfame-K

Culinary arts; Cooking

Formulated by the Germans in the late 1960s, this noncaloric artificial sweetener (also called Ace-K) was approved in the United States by the Federal Drug Administration in 1988. It's 200 times ...

Hash-brown potatoes

Culinary arts; Cooking

Finely chopped, cooked potatoes that are fried (often in bacon fat) until well browned. The mixture is usually pressed down into a flat cake in the pan and browned on one side, then turned and ...

Edible flowers

Culinary arts; Cooking

Flowers that are used as a garnish or as an integral part of a dish, such as a salad. Not all flowers are edible. Those that are must usually be purchased from specialty produce markets or ...

Found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the bluefish is nicknamed "bulldog of the ocean" because of its tenacity. It ranges from 3 to 10 pounds and has a fatty, fine-textured flesh that ranges in ...

Corn flour

Culinary arts; Cooking

Finely ground cornmeal, corn flour comes in yellow and white and is used for breading and in combination with other flours in baked goods. Corn flour is milled from the whole kernel, while ...