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A warm water fish that has a medium textured, dark flesh that turns brown when cooked. It has a good flavored flesh, which has a high fat content.

A delicate herb with velvety soft leaves that are dark green on top and somewhat irredescent on the underside.

A lean, round saltwater fish with flaky white flesh which has a firm, moist texture and a mild, sweet flavor.

A perennial aromatic herb that has thin, pointed green leaves that have a distinct licorice-like flavor.

A generic classification of foods that are high in a type of carbohydrate that is considered unhealthy.

Made from cow's milk, this variety of cheese is a farmhouse cheese from Italy that is aged for only 5 to 7 weeks.

A white and silvery colored connective tissue attached to various pieces of meat. Generally, the silverskin will be noticeable on ribs and tenderloins of beef, lamb and pork so it is a common practice to remove this part from the meat since it does not add any benefit to the cooking or eating of the meat.

A kitchen utensil that is used to remove tiny bits of flesh from the irregularly shaped ginger root....

A goat's milk cheese, native to France, that is similar and synonymous with a French chevre. Semi-aged, ripening for 5 to 10 weeks, Bucheron is produced as short logs that are sliced and sold as small rounds in food stores.

A variety of cheddar cheese made from cow's milk and produced in the Coombe Castle region of England, an area close to the origin of cheddar cheese.

A regional white wine produced in the Burgundy region of France. True White Burgundy is Chardonnay varietal based and have no connection to cheap jug wines that have adopted the name for their labels.

Pepper berries that are the same as the black peppercorn, except that they have been ripened longer and then soaked in a water solution before removing the black outer hull.

A large round fruit, native to Southeast Asia, that grows on trees and is distinctive in appearance with its spiked outer shell.

A kitchen utensil that is used to pry open the hard shell of a clam or an oyster in order to remove the meat.

A Spanish cheese made from cow's milk that originated on the island of Minorca off the northeast coast of Spain.

A variety of blue cheese that comes from the state of Iowa in the U.S. It is a traditional farmhouse cheese made from unpasteurized cow's milk.

A chemical compound that forms from bacteria and oxygen as they interact with alcohol produced from fermented products, such as beer and wine.

A French cheese made with cow's milk in which extra cream is added before the milk coagulates. The extra cream gives the cheese a rich, smooth texture.

A variety of white cheese that comes from the Provence region of France. It is traditionally made with pasteurized goat's milk known as Banon Chevre, but it also made with cow's milk or a blend of sheep's, cow's and goat's milk.

A pear-shaped fruit, also known as the cactus pear, that is produced from the tropical cactus plant known as the Prickly Pear cactus.