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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 small ribbon pasta formed into a curved shape. Ricciutelle is made into several types of shapes, either a corkscrew shape (similar to fusilli, rotini and rotelle) or simply as a short curl formed like a small ribbon that has been curled slightly.

1) Decorative toppings, very tiny in size, that are sprinkled over candies, cakes, muffins, cookies, and other sweet foods.

A steak cut from the butt end, or large end, of the beef tenderloin. The butt end of the tenderloin is actually not located within the short loin, but extends into sirloin section....

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 specialty pear, native to Australia that has a less symmetrical pear shape, but a somewhat larger size at its base than other pears.

Not to be confused with watercress, this salad green is a member of the mustard family and is also known as English cress, garden cress, land cress and winter cress.

1. The cuts of meat obtained from the rib cages of beef, veal, lamb, and pork. Back ribs are cut from the beef rib primal and short ribs are cut from the chuck and plate.

A slice of beef, cut from various areas of the beef carcass, ranging in thickness between one-half to one inch and of a size intended to be one serving (many steaks can easily feed two people).

1. A cereal grass that yields grain harvested as an important food crop. Rice is so important that half of the people in the world depend upon it for nearly 50% of their daily intake of calories.

A type of chicory common in Tuscany, Italy where the Cappuccino monks began growing this vegetable green which ultimately became named for their efforts in raising it.

A type of fork that is used for a many different cooking tasks when working with variety of different foods that are boiled, baked, cooked, stir-fried, or grilled.

A sweet chocolate dessert that has a history of different stories of origin, but all pointing to being created around the mid 1800's.

The measure of time the taste and aroma sensation of a wine lingers after swallowing, the longer the better.

Long egg noodles that have been precooked and dried before packaged. They are found as flat or round noodles and because they are precooked they require only a short cooking time.

Another name for squid, calamari is a member of the cephalopod variety of mollusks that also includes cuttlefish and octopus.

A small shell shaped pasta that has slightly rolled-in edges. The name cavatelli is sometimes found associated with pasta that is similar in shape to casarecci, only shorter in length, but most often it refers to the small shell shaped pasta.

The area of a steer that extends from the neck to the fifth rib of the chest cavity. Included in the Beef Chuck is the meat extending from the shoulder to the arm most often described as chuck roasts, pot roasts and short ribs.

Considered to be a type of utility knife that is used for many of the same tasks as the traditional paring knife.

A medium sized red apple that has creamy white flesh, which is firm and juicy. It has a sweet, mildly acidic flavor.