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Culinary arts

The art of preparing and cooking foods.

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sommelier

Culinary arts; Cooking

The French term for a steward or waiter in charge of wine. For hundreds of years, sommeliers were responsible for the cellaring and serving of wines for royalty. Eventually the ...

nam pla

Culinary arts; Cooking

Popular in Thailand, nam pla is a salty, fermented fish sauce with an extremely pungent odor. It's used as a condiment, sauce and seasoning ingredient. Nam pla is popular ...

mostaccioli

Culinary arts; Cooking

Large, 2 inch-long macaroni tubes — "mustaches" — cut on the diagonal. Mostaccioli can have either a ridged or plain surface. See also macaroni; pasta.

preserve

Culinary arts; Cooking

To prepare foods so that they can be kept for long periods of time without spoiling or deteriorating. Depending on the food and the length of time it's to be stored, preserving ...

spanakopita

Culinary arts; Cooking

Of Greek origin, this sa-vory pie consists of top and bottom phyllo-dough crusts with a fill-ing of sautéed spinach and onions mixed with feta cheese, eggs and seasonings.

tonnato

Culinary arts; Cooking

From the Italian tonno ("tuna"), the word tonnato refers culinarily to dishes that are somehow prepared with or accompanied by tuna. The most well known preparation is vitello ...

sweetened condensed milk

Culinary arts; Cooking

A mixture of whole milk and sugar, 40 to 45 percent of which is sugar. This mixture is heated until about 60 percent of the water evaporates. The resulting condensed mixture is ...

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