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A type of festive Easter bread that originated in Bologna, Italy. The unbleached white flour (wheat) dough is enriched with butter, eggs, and milk, sweetened with sugar, and flavored with lemon zest.

A sweet dessert pastry that originated in Greece and other Eastern Mediterranean countries. It is made with layers of phyllo (filo) pastry, nuts, and spices and is soaked with honey and lemon syrup.

Dry Italian salami that consists of all pork meat from the head of the hog or leftover pork trimmings.

A consommé that contains tomatoes or tomato juice as a flavoring ingredient. When served hot it is in a liquid form.

A cold, uncooked soup that originated in southern Spain. It is prepared with puréed fresh vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, celery, and onions, that are combined with garlic, breadcrumbs, olive oil, vinegar, and lemon juice.

A Portuguese yeast bread that is traditionally served to celebrate Epiphany. The dough, prepared with white bread flour or all-purpose flour, is enriched with butter and eggs, flavored with raisins, pine nuts, and orange and lemon zest, and topped with candied fruits, sugar, and citrus zest.

The most common variety of curry paste available, which is red in color and is typically made from fresh and/or dried red chiles mixed with other ingredients such as coriander, cinnamon, cumin seeds, shallots, garlic, lemon grass, and peppercorns.

A popular Spanish sauce served most often with grilled meats, fish or vegetables. The traditional version of this sauce includes saffron, an emulsion of garlic and oil, eggs (to stabilize the sauce), mustard, olive oil, lemon juice, tomato paste, and seasonings.

A cooking ingredient, made from the tropical tamarind fruit, originating in North Africa and Asia, which is used as a seasoning for meat, chutney, curry dishes and pickled fish.

A flavoring or infusing process that is used to alter and enhance the natural flavor of a beverage. It begins by heating a beverage and then adding a spice or various mulling spices, which includes herbs, to the warm drink.

A spreadable nut butter used for cooking, baking, as a sauce or a topping for sweets and breads. It is made by roasting almonds and grinding them into a fine texture.

A well-known French dessert that consists of rolled sweet crêpes (thin pancake-like flat cakes) covered with an orange sauce that is ignited to become a flaming dessert.

A chilled drink traditionally served in Brazil that is made from Cachaca, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane that is similar to rum.

A spicy herb sauce or marinade that is served with grilled and roasted meats. With orgins credited to Argentina and their use of the sauce, Chimichurri Sauce generally consists of water, salt, garlic, parsley, oregano, pepper, red chile peppers, lemon zest, red or white-wine vinegar, and extra-virgin olive oil.

A variety of pear that has a shape and appearance similar to a Bartlett pear. Very juicy in texture, the French Butter Pear provides a sweet, succulent flavor containing a hint of lemon.

A cold sauce used as a condiment most often with fish but also on other foods such as vegetables. It is made with a mayonnaise base combined with ingredients such as chopped pickles, chopped onions, capers, olives, lemon juice or vinegar, and at times is lightly flavored with mustard.

The tropical fruit from the Tamarind tree, a species that is native to North Africa and Asia. Resembling a vegetable with its large brown pod containing small seeds and a brown pulp, the tamarind provides a acidic flavor somewhat like lemon juice, that enhances flavors when used as a seasoning for meat, chutney, curry dishes, and pickled fish.

A meat topping that is spread over a Ham prior to baking in order to enhance the flavor of the meat after it has finished baking and to help keep the Ham moist and tender in texture.

A Spanish yeast bread made with bread flour or all-purpose flour that is traditionally served on the eve of Epiphany (Twelfth Night).

A cooking sauce common in India that is generally a mild flavored curry sauce seasoned with a variety of other ingredients.