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A cow's milk cheese, traditionally made in northern France, which has a cream-colored soft to firm texture surrounded by a thick orange, washed rind.

A sheep's milk cheese from the Basque region of France that is made in the Benedictine Monastery that is the Abbaye de Notre Dame de Bellocq.

Aside from watermelon, which is a different species, there are three basic types of melons. The first type are small, ridged skin melons, such as the charentais, which are a variety that is more common in Europe than other regions.

A traditional farmhouse cheese that comes from the Piedmont area of northern Italy. Often hard to find, Castelmagno is a pressed curd cheese made from pasteurized and unpasteurized, milk of cow's, goats's or sheep that is partially skimmed.

Small in size, this variety of winter squash is grown to make homemade pumpkin pies and a variety of foods containing the flesh of this squash.

1. A French term meaning "candy." 2. A type of candy that has taken on the name of "bon bon" to describe its general shape and form, such as candy made with a semi-hard outer shell that covers a sweet inner filling.

An unpasteurized cow's milk cheese from the Savoie region of France, that is typically available during the winter months.

A highly prized and rare mushroom (fungus), that grows underground near the roots of trees. Most varieties of truffles that are considered edible are found 2 to 3 inches below the surface of the ground, but can be found as deep as 10 to 15 inches down.

Small, pre-moistened towels or towelettes that are used to clean surfaces for the removal of dirt and bacteria, such as staph and salmonella that may have been placed on the affected surface from foods, persons or animals.

A type of orange that does not have the sweet taste of many other oranges but instead provides a bitter flavor due to the higher acidic content.

A fruit, originating in Mexico and Central America, which has several varieties, the white sapote, the black sapote and the mamey sapote.

A spice that is derived berries grown on pepper plants, such as the Piper nigrum, Piper longum or the Piper retrofractum plants.

A tuber vegetable originating from Central America that is typically referred to as either a Sweet Potato or yam in the U.S.

A kitchen tool designed to remove cleanly file or hone the cutting edges on the steel blades of knives and other utensils with cutting edges.

A finishing tool that is used sharpen (hone) the steel blades of knives and cutting utensils such as scissors or garden utensils.

food thickener, thickening agent, liason, beurre manie,

A tropical root vegetable, grown as a shrub in temperate zones of Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and South America, that is harvested for its root and leaves.

A tropical root vegetable, grown as a shrub in temperate zones of Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and South America, that is harvested for its root and leaves.

A type of winter squash that develops an orange outer skin with a golden inner flesh. The sizes of Pumpkins can range from very small to very large weighing close to 1000 lbs when exceptionally large.

A single-cell organism or plant that feeds on simple sugars that are converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide through fermentation.