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A meat dish, originating in Europe, that uses meatballs combined with a sauce that is served as a main dish.

Often considered to be an activity at the seashore, clambakes are events that may be picnics or evening parties where clams and a variety of other foods are steam-baked.

A kitchen utensil used to grasp food so it can be moved from one location to another to be flipped, rotated, adjusted, or retrieved from areas that may be hot or simply best handled with a Tong.

A cut of meat and steak dinner made world famous by Delmonico's Restaurant in New York during the mid 1800's.

A slightly sweet, tender fruit covered with a shiny skin that ranges in color from purple, which is the most familiar, to red, yellow, green, or white, depending on the variety.

A variety of related plants bearing small seeds used as a food source. The plants may grow to a height of up to six feet and feature large seed heads, which bear many tiny seeds ranging in color from bright yellow to rust, depending on the variety.

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 grain-like plant that is not actually a type of rice, but an aquatic grass bearing edible seeds that grows in wild marshy areas of fresh water lakes and rivers.

A kitchen utensil that is used to strain liquids such as boiling water or to sift dry ingredients, such as flour or powdered sugar.

An herb that originated in the Mediterranean countries but is now widely cultivated throughout the world.

A semi-soft to firm cheese made from unpasteurized cow's milk that originated in France and thereafter became common in Switzerland and Austria, as well as Australia.

A device that consists of two small frying baskets, one fitting inside the other. It is used to fry starchy foods, such as fresh noodles or vegetables by placing the food in the bottom basket and pressing the top basket down to flatten the food items and then deep-frying until crispy and golden brown.

A small portion of ground meat that has been seasoned and rolled into a round ball-like shape. Meatballs were most likely created as a way to use up excess meat, taking scraps of meat, grinding them into small bits and possibly adding some fillers to help hold the mixture together.

A vegetable, which is a member of the onion family, that has an appearance similar to a scallion. Long and round in shape, the stem of the leek is white at the root end and becomes increasingly darker green toward the top which is surrounded by stiff green or blue-green leaves, depending on the variety.

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A nut harvested from the branches of the Chestnut tree, a member of the beech family of plants. A prickly outer casing is removed to expose a dark brown, glossy shell that covers a sweet, but mealy fleshed nut.

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