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The network of fat that runs throughout a cut of meat, also referred to as graining. As the meat is cooked, the marbling dissolves into the meat, making it tender, juicy and more flavorful.

A type of flour or meal made from almost any type of grain, nut, or starchy root, but is most often made from wheat.

A rooster that has been castrated just after 6 weeks old and fed a diet rich in grains to prepare it for processing when it is no more than 10 months old.

A Scandinavian alcoholic beverage distilled from potatoes or at times, from grain, which is then flavored with spices.

Found in regions adjacent to the Himalayan mountain range, the Himalayan Pink Salt is a natural, coarse-grained salt containing a high concentration of minerals.

An unrefined sugar or raw sugar made from the juice of sugar cane. Dark brown in color, Barbados sugar is fine-grained and soft-textured similar to brown sugar, providing a distinctively strong flavor when added to foods.

An African flat bread that is very thin and somewhat crepe-like in appearance. Made from flour ground from teff, a grain cultivated in Ethiopia, the bread begins as a batter that is poured into a skillet or baking pan and made into a round-shaped flexible flat bread that is baked only on one side.

A type of carbonated beverage that is produced using a beer base made from barley and other cereal grains that has been flavored with the juice of ginger.

A type of flour milled from seeds obtained from the amaranth plant. The small, lens shaped seed or grain is light tan in color and provides a very mild tangy, somewhat peppery or nutty flavor, which may be quite noticeable if the flour is not combined with another flour when preparing baked foods.

A cooking tool or utensil that is shaped like a short fat baseball bat that is used to grind ingredients such as herbs, grains, or nuts in a bowl known as a mortar.

White rice refers to many different types of rice that are basically white in color but may be any short to long grain variety.

A product that is generally made from fermented and partially cooked soybeans, but is also made from other legumes and grains, such as barley, rice or quinoa.

Flour that does not contain gluten, which is a protein found in some types of flour milled from various grains, seeds, legumes, tubers, and nuts.

The name given to any food dish prepared with mixed ingredients that include a starch (pasta, potato or grain), a protein (meat, poultry or fish), and vegetables combined with a soup sauce to keep it all together and baked in a covered dish.

The browned, crusty layer of rice that forms on the bottom of the common Italian or Spanish dish known as paella.

One of the darkest of the raw dark brown sugars that is produced during the third crystallization of the cane syrup, muscovado sugar has a fine-grained texture with natural molasses to provide a strong flavor and consistency similar to refined brown sugar.

A type of cooking oil that is produced from the rice bran when it is removed as a by-product from the grain of rice as it is processed.

A potato variety that is a cross between the South American wild, yellow potato and the North American white resulting in a light yellow skin, a fine-grained texture and a rich buttery flavor.

An alcoholic beverage made from a mash of fermented barley and is produced in Ireland. It may also be produced from other fermented grains, which are blended with the barley.

Grana cheese is actually Grana Padano cheese. "Grana" is an abbreviation of Grana Padano. This cheese is an Italian semi-fat, hard cheese with a finely grained texture.