Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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This crisp, juicy, sweetly tart apple has a beautiful green skin streaked with red. It's in season from August to late September and available mainly on the West Coast. Although the Gravenstein is ...

chicharrón

Culinary arts; Cooking

This crispy rich snack is made from pork skin that has been deep-fried twice, once in 325°F oil, then again in 375°F oil, making it balloon into a honeycombed puff. It is available in Latin American ...

château-bottled

Culinary arts; Cooking

This designation on a wine label indicates that the wine was bottled on the property where the grapes were grown and the wine made. Other wines are often made from grapes grown throughout a region ...

Hangtown Fry

Culinary arts; Cooking

This dish is said to have been created during the California Gold Rush in a rowdy burg called Hangtown (now Placerville) because of the town's frequent hangings. It consists of fried breaded oysters ...

habanero chile

Culinary arts; Cooking

This distinctively flavored, extremely hot chile is small and lantern-shaped. It's native to the Caribbean, the Yucatan and the north coast of South America. The habanero ranges from light green to ...

green goddess dressing

Culinary arts; Cooking

This dressing was created in the 1920s by the chef at San Francisco's Palace Hotel in honor of actor George Arliss, who was appearing locally in a play called "Green Goddess. " The classic green ...

cherrystone clam

Culinary arts; Cooking

This East Coast medium-sized clam (shell diameter of about 2 1/2 inches) is of the hard-shell variety. Cherrystones are good both raw and cooked, steaming and baking being the most popular cooking ...