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Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Chinese date

Culinary arts; Cooking

Also called Chinese jujube and red date, this olive-sized fruit has a leathery skin that, depending on the variety, can be red (most common), off-white or almost black. The flavour of the rather ...

Also called choux paste, pâte à choux and cream-puff pastry, this special pastry is made by an entirely different method from other pastries. The dough, created by combining flour with boiling water ...

Bok choy

Culinary arts; Cooking

Also called Chinese white cabbage, pak choy, pak choi and white mustard cabbage, bok choy is a mild, versatile vegetable with crunchy white stalks and tender, dark green leaves. It resembles a bunch ...

Blackfish

Culinary arts; Cooking

Also called Chinese steelhead and black trout, this lean Pacific fish is a favourite in Chinese communities. It has a delicious, delicate flavour but can be troublesome because of its network of ...

Dextrose

Culinary arts; Cooking

Also called corn sugar and grape sugar, dextrose is a naturally occurring form of glucose.

Garlic chives

Culinary arts; Cooking

An herb similar to chives, but with a decidedly garlicky nuance, both in aroma and flavor. Garlic chive leaves have long, thin, flat stems, whereas the stalks with flowers are round and more closely ...

Costmary

Culinary arts; Cooking

An herb belonging to the composite plant family, which includes daisies, dandelions, marigolds and sunflowers. The silvery, fragrant costmary leaves have a minty, lemony character. They're used in ...