Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Cooking

Legends about eggs have abounded throughout the eons. Early Phoenicians thought that a primaeval egg split open to form heaven and earth; Egyptians believed that their god Ptah created the egg from ...

Burdock

Culinary arts; Cooking

Known in Japan as gobo, burdock is a slender root vegetable with a rusty brown skin and grayish-white flesh. Cultivated primarily in Japan, it grows wild throughout much of Europe and the United ...

Great Northern bean

Culinary arts; Cooking

Large white beans that resemble lima beans in shape but that have a delicate, distinctive flavor. They're grown in the Midwest and are generally available dried. As with other dried beans, they ...

Cannellini bean

Culinary arts; Cooking

Large, white Italian kidney beans, available both in dry and canned forms. Cannellini beans are particularly popular in salads and soups. See also beans.

Cannelloni

Culinary arts; Cooking

Large pasta tubes (or squares of pasta that have been rolled into tubes) that are boiled, then stuffed with a meat or cheese filling and baked with a sauce.

Grasshopper pie

Culinary arts; Cooking

Like the drink of the same name, this light, airy and rich pie is flavoured with crème de menthe and white crème de cacao. The richness comes from whipped cream and the lightness from beaten egg ...

Beaujolais

Culinary arts; Cooking

Light and dry, this fruity red wine comes from a hilly region in southern Burgundy. Beaujolais Nouveau is new wine, bottled right after fermentation without aging. It's very light and fruity and ...