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A tiny French olive with color that ranges from purple-brown to brown black and a soft meat that provides a somewhat tart to nutty flavor.

The soaking of food, such as meat, vegetables, or fish, in a flavored liquid for the purpose of flavoring and tenderizing foods before cooking.

A baked food item consisting of flour or meal as the main ingredient, mixed with liquid ingredients such as milk or water and eggs to form a dough.

Common in Italian cooking, this food item consists of sweet peppers sauteed in olive oil. The Italian Sweet Pepper is a common pepper to use for making this food dish, but any variety of sweet pepper can be served.

Made as a water-based soup, this soup combines meat and pasta in a soothing chicken broth. Chicken Wonton Soup, or Chicken Won Ton as it may also be referred, is a soup that contains cooked chicken meat, thick dumpling-like pasta, celery, spinach or herbs, and flavorings that are added to a chicken stock.

Common in areas of eastern Europe such as Macedonia, Pinjur is a sauce that is used as a topping or a cooking ingredient to be added to foods.

1. A very small, round tender piece of meat that is generally an inch or so in diameter. This term is most often used in reference to lamb meat and may also be called a medallion of lamb or a noisette.

The Italian word for "hunter" that refers to the manner of food preparation and the ingredients typically used for game dishes.

A small to medium sized squash ranging in diameter from 5 to 7 inches. Round and hard skinned, the inner, somewhat stringy flesh has a mellow, but sweet flavor similar to sweet potatoes.

A long stemmed spearhead-shaped, fleshy green leaf that provides a mild flavor as a salad green. Predominately grown in western North America, this green is also known as Cuban spinach or miner's lettuce and is used as a distinctive garnish for vegetable trays, in salads, an herb or an added complement to main dishes.

Another name for vitamin C, which is found in citrus fruits, green leafy vegetables, peppers, melons, and berries.

An unpasteurized sheep's milk cheese from the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. The cheese is a very pale yellow with an exceptional flavor that is mild and sweet, which becomes richer with age.

A French unpasteurized goat's milk cheese that gets its name from the fact that when it is produced, it is shaped like a fig.

A meat product generally consisting of pork, but also made of beef, veal, lamb, poultry, or a combination of several of these meats.

An almond shaped olive that has a medium green smooth appearance, which changes to a reddish-black when it is allowed to ripen.

A sauce made with the juices released from oven roasted or stove top cooked foods, such as meat, poultry or vegetables.

An aromatic leaf from the evergreen bay laurel tree used for seasoning foods. The tree from which the Bay Leaves are harvested is native to Mediterranean regions, but grown in the U.

Made in the form of a Tea Ball with a handle, this utensil is designed to hold bits of ingredients that are used to make beverages and flavorful foods.

A variety of cheese that comes from the alpine countryside of northeastern Italy. Made from cow's milk, Langrein Cheese is produced in a region where Lagrein grapes are grown to make Lagrein wine.

A combination of the traditional Tomato Soup with an array of garden vegetables that offers a strong tomato and vegetable soup-like flavor.