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A traditional food wrap from Mexico consisting of a tortilla flatbread that is filled with meat, cheese, vegetables, refried beans, and salsa.

A traditional wrapped food from Mexico consisting of a tortilla flatbread that is filled with meat, cheese, vegetables, refried beans, and salsa.

The process of cutting food in a specific way to assist with the preparation of the item. When vegetables such as beans, peppers or potatoes are cut into long thin strips, the preparation process refers to the vegetables as being "frenched".

A type of legume originating in Asia, which is also grown in the southern United States. The small seed or bean of the plant has a beige color and is characterized by a black circular spot, or ''eye''.

A beverage made by the process of brewing. Beverages such as coffee and tea are brewed with infusion.

A small, disk-shaped legume that has a firm texture and a nutty taste. Dried green lentils do not require presoaking like many dried beans and they tend to cook faster.

A hearty meat stew originating in southern France, that consists of a confit (most often duck, goose, or pork) that is combined with white beans, vegetables, and potatoes, placed in a pot, and slowly cooked to blend all of the flavorful ingredients.

A Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla, which is a flat, unleavened bread, rolled around various ingredients including beef, cheeses, and/or refried beans.

Native to the Basque region of Spain, this variety of chile pepper is small in size and narrow in dimension.

A sweet topping as well as a cooking and baking ingredient made from chocolate based foods with sweeteners added.

A tall flowering plant native to Mexico that is commonly served fresh as a vegetable green or dried and used as a seasoning.

An American dry-cured country ham, which is made from the hind leg of a pig that has been raised on a diet of acorns, beans, clover, and grain.

A Japanese noodle that is thin and translucent in appearance, similar to cellophane noodles. They are made from potato, rice, corn, or mung bean starches.

An illness caused by eating food contaminated with clostridium botulinum bacteria. The bacteria grows rapidly in foods that are not stored properly.

The fruit from a single variety of orchid plant, which is the only orchid plant out of thousands of varieties that produces anything edible.

A tortilla that has been fried until it is crisp and somewhat brittle. A variety of ingredients can be placed on the tostada, such as shredded beef, poultry or fish, refried beans, shredded lettuce, bits of tomato, onion, and peppers.

A meat product that is sometimes mistakenly referred to as "fat back". This cut of meat comes from the side and the belly of the hog and consists of a layer of fat with some lean meat streaks running through it.

A pan-fried or broiled, flour tortilla, which is filled with cheese and a combination of ingredients that may include meat, beans, salsa, black olives, peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, or other vegetables.

The process of breaking solid food items into smaller particles. Special equipment is available to grind different types of food such as a meat grinder for meat, a coffee grinder for coffee beans, a pepper mill for grinding peppercorns, and a food processor, which is used to grind many different types of food.

A type of noodle soup common in Vietnam that is made with rice noodles (banh pho), vegetables, pieces of meat thinly sliced, and various herbs.