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A classification of rice in which the grains must be less than two times longer than they are wide. Some short grain rice varieties are about as long as they are wide (making them almost round).

A sweet pastry made with a choux pastry dough that is baked to form small dome shaped puffs. The outer crust is golden tan and somewhat brittle after being baked while the inner crumb is dense and fluffy.

The process of cutting foods into fine or coarse cut pieces. Onions, carrots, sweet peppers, celery, tomatoes, and potatoes are all examples of foods that are coarsely chopped to be added to stews and chili.

Refers to various types of beans that have been dried in order to preserve them for future use. Among the most popular dried beans are navy, black, pinto, and kidney, which are available in bulk or in small packages.

Refers to the entire wheat kernel, without the hull, which contains the bran, germ, and endosperm. Wheat berry or wheatberry, as it is also known, have a tan to reddish brown color and are available as either a hard or soft processed grain.

A sweet juicy fruit that has skin that ranges from white to rich yellow to reddish brown and flesh that ranges from yellow to deep gold and red.

Flat, roughly cut pieces of pasta produced as random shapes from the scraps of pasta being cut and formed for another variety of pasta or pasta that is intentionally cut into a formed shape, similar to a trapezoid or a parallelogram.

A type of dry onion that has a pure white skin and a sweet, mild flesh that is also white in color. This onion is widely used in Mexican foods, complementing the flavors of other ingredients.

A leavening agent for sourdough bread that enables the bread dough to rise. The primary difference between making bread with a sourdough starter and making bread with the direct or straight yeast method (the method familiar to most home cooks) is that starter breads require much more time to prepare, but the flavor and texture of the bread is almost impossible to achieve with other leavening methods.

A tradiitonal Irish bread that is made with three ingredients consisting of flour, buttermilk, and baking soda as the leavening agent.