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x Chili pepper Cubanelle Peppers Capsicum Larb Singaporean cuisine
Chili pepper (also chile pepper or chilli pepper, from Nahuatl chilli) is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The term in British English and in Australia, New Zealand, India, Malaysia and other...
Sugo all'amatriciana Incan
Rendang Indonesian
Mexican
Thai
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x Cubeb Cubeb     Indonesian
Cubeb (Piper cubeba), or tailed pepper, is a plant in genus Piper, cultivated for its fruit and essential oil. It is mostly grown in Java and Sumatra, hence sometimes called Java pepper. The fruits are gathered before they are ripe, and carefully...
x Turmeric Koeh-199   Soto ayam Indian
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is native to tropical South Asia and needs temperatures between 20 °C and 30 °C (68 °F and 86 °F) and a considerable amount of annual...
Nasi kuning Indonesian
x Chives Chives   Clapshot  
Chives - Allium schoenoprasum - are the smallest species of the edible onions. A perennial plant, they are native to Europe, Asia and North America. Allium schoenoprasum is the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old World. The...
x Tarragon Artemisia dracunculus      
Tarragon, dragon's-wort, French tarragon, Russian tarragon, silky wormwood, or wild tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus) is a perennial herb in the family Asteraceae related to wormwood. Corresponding to its species name, a common term for the plant is ...
x Buddha's hand Buddha's hand on tree      
Buddha's hand, Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis (also known as bushukan ブッシュカン (Japanese) or fingered citron), is a fragrant citron variety whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections. The origin of Buddha's hand plant is traced back to...
x Chayote Chouchous on sale in Réunion Island     Taiwanese
The chayote (Sechium edule), also known as christophene or christophine, cho-cho, mirliton or merleton (Creole/Cajun), pear squash, vegetable pear, chouchoute, choko, is an edible plant belonging to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, along with melons,...
Mexican
x Blueberry Blueberry fruit Fruit Blueberry pie  
Blueberries are perennial flowering plants with indigo-colored berries in the section Cyanococcus within the genus Vaccinium (a genus which also includes cranberries and bilberries). Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold...
x Fennel Fennel in flower     Indonesian
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a plant species in the genus Foeniculum (treated as the sole species in the genus by most botanists). It is a member of the family Apiaceae (formerly the Umbelliferae). It is a hardy, perennial, umbelliferous herb,...
x Cardoon Cardoon flower head      
The cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), also called the artichoke thistle, cardone, cardoni, carduni or cardi, is a thistle-like plant in the aster family Asteraceae. It is the naturally occurring form of the same species as the globe artichoke, and has...
x Onion Onions.jpg   Mee Goreng  
The onion (Allium cepa), which is also known as the bulb onion, common onion and garden onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and...
Pasty
Gumbo
Greek salad
Knish
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x Veal image:title_Cuisine_2.jpg   Weißwurst  
Veal is the meat of young cattle (calves), as opposed to meat from older cattle. Though veal can be produced from a calf of either sex and any breed, most veal comes from male calves (bull calves) of dairy cattle breeds. There are five types of...
Bockwurst
Gelbwurst
Meatloaf
x Sirloin steak Sirloin steak, served with garlic butter and french fries Beef Bistek  
The sirloin steak is a steak cut from the rear back portion of the animal, continuing off the short loin from which T-bone, porterhouse, and club steaks are cut. The sirloin is actually divided into several types of steak. The top sirloin is the...
x Bacon Bacon Pork Eggs Benedict  
Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig. It is first cured using large quantities of salt, either in a brine or in a dry packing; the result is fresh bacon (also known as green bacon). Fresh bacon may then be further dried for weeks or months in...
Bacon and egg pie
Weißwurst
Teewurst
Cervelat
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x Tomato Tomato   Niçoise salad Italian
The word "tomato" may refer to the plant (Solanum lycopersicum) or the edible, typically red, fruit that it bears. Originating in South America, the tomato was spread around the world following the Spanish colonization of the Americas, and its many...
Greek salad American
Aloo Tama Chilean
Uttapam
Huevos rancheros
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x Bean Canned beans   Minestrone  
Bean ( /ˈbiːn/) is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae (alternately Leguminosae) some of which are used for human food or animal feed. The term "bean" originally referred to the seed of the broad bean, but...
x Pasta image:title_Cuisine_2.jpg   Carbonara Italian
Pasta is a type of noodle and is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating back to 1154. It is also commonly used to refer to the variety of pasta dishes. Typically pasta is made from an unleavened dough of a...
Minestrone
Pasta with pancetta
Pasta Puttanesca
x Butternut squash Butternut squash, a variety of Cucurbita moschata      
Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata), also known in Australia and New Zealand as butternut pumpkin, is a type of winter squash. It has a sweet, nutty taste similar to that of a pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. When ripe, it turns...
x Fruit Fruit Stall in Barcelona Market   Trifle  
In botany, a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries. Fruits are the means by which many plants disseminate seeds. Many plants bearing edible fruits, in particular, have...
Hairy Buffalo
Pavlova
Smoothie
x Cream Cans of cream   Trifle  
Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. In the industrial production of cream this process is...
Creamed corn
Ice cream
White Russian
Brandy Alexander
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x Rice Oryza sativa Cereal Nasi goreng  
Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia and the West Indies. It...
Sushi
Dal Bhat
Baji
Uttapam
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x noodles     Mee Goreng    
x Culinary mustard Mustard being spread on bread   Deviled egg  
Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of a mustard plant (white or yellow mustard, Sinapis hirta; brown or Indian mustard, Brassica juncea; or black mustard, B. nigra). The whole, ground, cracked, or bruised mustard seeds are mixed with water,...
x Ketchup Organic Heinz Tomato Ketchup   Barbecue sauce  
Ketchup (also catsup, tomato sauce, or red sauce) is a sweet-and-tangy food sauce, typically made from tomatoes, vinegar, a sweetener, and assorted seasonings and spices. The sweetener is most commonly sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. Seasonings...
x Worcestershire sauce Leaperrins Sauce Caesar  
Worcestershire sauce (/ˈwʊstərʃər/ WUUS-tər-shər), or Worcester sauce ( /ˈwʊstər/ WUUS-tər) is a fermented liquid condiment; primarily used to flavour meat or fish dishes. First made at 60 Broad Street, Worcester, England, by two dispensing chemists...
Caesar salad
x Sambal Anchovies in sambal     Sundanese cuisine
Sambal is a chili based sauce which is normally used as a condiment. Sambals are popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as in the Netherlands and in Suriname through Javanese influence. It is...
x Lentil 3 types of lentil   Dal  
The lentil (Lens culinaris) (International Feed Number, 5-02-506) is an edible pulse. It is a bushy annual plant of the legume family, grown for its lens-shaped seeds. It is about 40 centimetres (16 in) tall and the seeds grow in pods, usually with...
Dal Bhat
Carrot and Red Lentil Soup
x Potato Baked Potatoes   Irish stew  
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades). The word may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some...
Pasty
Shepherd's pie
Aloo Tama
Kreplach
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x Lamb Lamb shank   Irish stew Middle Eastern
Lamb, mutton, and hogget (UK, New Zealand and Australia) are the meat of domestic sheep. The meat of a sheep in its first year is lamb; that of a juvenile sheep older than 1 year is hogget; and the meat of an adult sheep is mutton. Distinct from the...
Shepherd's pie Welsh cuisine
Rogan Josh
Roast lamb with laver sauce
Cawl
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x Pork Two halves of pork being delivered   Cochinita pibil  
Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig (Sus domesticus), which is eaten in many countries. It is one of the most commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BC. Pork is eaten in several...
Knackwurst
Teewurst
Saumagen
Bockwurst
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x Sourdough Sourdough starter made with flour and water refreshed for 3 or more days      
Sourdough is a dough containing a Lactobacillus culture, usually in symbiotic combination with yeasts. It is one of two principal means of biological leavening in bread baking, along with the use of cultivated forms of yeast (Saccharomyces). It is...
x Yeast S cerevisiae under DIC microscopy   Bialy Pizza
Yeasts are eukaryotic micro-organisms classified in the kingdom fungi, with 1,500 species currently described estimated to be only 1% of all fungal species. Most reproduce asexually by mitosis, and many do so by an asymmetric division process called...
Ho-tteok
x Baking powder Baking powder      
Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent used to increase the volume and lighten the texture of baked goods such as muffins, cakes, scones and American-style biscuits. Baking powder works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into a batter or dough...
x Tortilla FlourTortillas   Gordita  
In Mexico and Central America, a tortilla is a type of thin, unleavened flat bread, made from finely ground maize (usually called "corn" in the United States). In Mexico, there are three colors of maize dough for making tortillas: white maize,...
Burrito
Taco
Quesadilla
Huevos rancheros
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x Meat FoodMeat   Pasty  
Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Most often, this means the skeletal muscle and associated fat and other tissues, but it may also describe other edible tissues such as organs and offal. In commerce, meat is generally used by the meat...
Vareniki
Bigos
Nasi campur
x Flour Jahu ja piim   Pasty Pizza
Flour is a powder which is made by grinding cereal grains, other seeds or roots (like Cassava). It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cultures, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and...
Quiche
Pumpkin pie
Apple pie
Mince pie
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x Milk A glass of cow's milk   Quiche  
Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's...
Scrambled eggs
Cajeta
Kugelis
Ho-tteok
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x Egg A carton of free-range chicken eggs   Quiche  
Eggs are laid by females of many different species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, and have probably been eaten by mankind for millennia. Bird and reptile eggs consist of a protective eggshell, albumen (egg white), and vitellus ...
Scrambled eggs
Eggs Benedict
Niçoise salad
Bacon and egg pie
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x Butter NCI butter   Quiche  
Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking, such as baking, sauce making, and pan frying. Butter consists of butterfat, milk proteins and water...
Arroz a la valenciana
Étouffée
Lobster Newberg
Fettuccine alfredo
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x Ginger Gingembre   Pumpkin pie  
Ginger or ginger root is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family (Zingiberaceae). Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and...
Gai Pad Khing
Gelbwurst
Quentão
Hainanese Chicken Rice
x Pumpkin Pumpkins Vegetable Pumpkin pie  
A pumpkin is a gourd-like squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae (which also includes gourds). It commonly refers to cultivars of any one of the species Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita maxima, and Cucurbita moschata,...
x Shortening A 1918 advertisement for shortening.   Pumpkin pie  
Shortening is any fat that is solid at room temperature and used to make crumbly pastry. The reason it is called shortening is that it prevents cross-linkage between gluten molecules. Cross linking gives dough elasticity. In pastries such as cake,...
Apple pie
Mince pie
Bacon and egg pie
Rhubarb pie
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x Cinnamon Cinnamomum verum1   Pumpkin pie Indonesian
Cinnamon ( /ˈsɪnəmən/ SIN-ə-mən) is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods. While native only to the island of Sri Lanka, cinnamon trees are now naturalized in...
Glogg
One-Balled Dictator
Zurracapote
Bumbo
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x Nutmeg Koeh-097   Pumpkin pie Indonesian
The nutmeg tree is any of several species of trees in genus Myristica. The most important commercial species is Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands) of Indonesia. The nutmeg tree is...
Gelbwurst
Stracciatella
Tom and Jerry
Bumbo
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x Chocolate Chocolate   Chocolate brownie  
Chocolate /ˈtʃɒkᵊlɨt/ is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC....
Rocky road
Chocolate pudding
Flourless chocolate cake
German chocolate cake
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x Fish A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium, seen swimming among schools of other fish   Sashimi  
A fish is any member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well...
Sushi
Gefilte fish
Fish and chips
Sole meunière
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x Ground beef Minced beef in industrial grinder Beef Hamburger Sausage
Beef mince, ground beef, hamburger meat (in North America), hamburg (in New England) or minced meat (elsewhere) is a minced meat food, made of beef finely chopped by a meat grinder. It is used in many recipes including hamburgers and cottage pie. In...
Cottage pie
Gołąbki
Mince and tatties
Bridie
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x Seaweed Seaweed-covered rocks in the UK   Sushi  
Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthic marine algae. The term includes some members of the red, brown and green algae. Seaweeds can also be classified by use (as food, medicine, fertilizer, industrial,...
x Apple Koeh-108 Fruit Apple pie  
The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family (Rosaceae). It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans....
Waldorf salad
Apple crisp
Apple dumpling
Apple turnover
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x Kimchi Gimchi      
Kimchi ( /ˈkɪmtʃi/; Korean: 김치 [kimtɕʰi]), also spelled gimchi, kimchee, or kim chee, is a traditional fermented Korean dish made of vegetables with a variety of seasonings. There are hundreds of varieties of kimchi made with a main vegetable...
x Horseradish Armoracia rusticana      
Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana, syn. Cochlearia armoracia) is a perennial plant of the Brassicaceae family, which also includes mustard, wasabi, broccoli, and cabbages. The plant is probably native to south eastern Europe and western Asia, but is...
x Soy sauce Soy sauce Sauce Bistek Indonesian
Soy sauce (also called soya sauce) is a condiment produced by fermenting soybeans with Aspergillus oryzae or Aspergillus sojae molds, along with water and salt. After the fermentation, which yields fermented soybean paste, the paste is pressed, and...
Transcontinental Condiment Violation Chinese
Burmese
Vietnamese
x Reshteh        
Reshteh (Persian: رشته), from the Persian word for thread or string, refers to a very fine noodle similar to capellini (angel hair pasta). However, it generally means a fresh (as opposed to dry) ribbon shaped egg noodle. Traditionally the noodle...
x Spätzle Paprikahuhn      
Spätzle [ˈʃpɛtslə] ( listen) (Swabian diminutive of Spatz, thus literally "little sparrow", also Spätzli or Chnöpfli in Switzerland or Knöpfle or Hungarian nokedli or galuska) are a type of egg noodle of soft texture found in the cuisine of Germany...
x Tagliatelle Picture 246 w Pasta    
Tagliatelle (Italian pronunciation: [taʎʎaˈtɛlle]) and tagliolini (from the Italian tagliare, meaning "to cut") is a traditional type of pasta from Emilia-Romagna and Marches, regions of Italy. Individual pieces of tagliatelle are long, flat ribbons...
x Lamian Lanzhou-style Beef Lamian      
Lamian (Uzbek: лагман [laɡman]) is a type of Chinese noodle. Lamian is made by stretching and folding the dough into strands. However, the twisting and subsequent stretching of the strips of dough happens due to the weight of the dough. Depending on...
x Mee pok A dish of Bak chor mee      
Mee pok is a type of Chinese noodle characterized by its flat and yellow appearance, varying in thickness and width. The dish is of Teochew origin and is commonly served in a number of countries such as Chaoshan (China), Singapore, Malaysia and...
x Somen Somen 001      
Sōmen (素麺) are very thin, white Japanese noodles made of wheat flour. The noodles are usually served cold and are less than 1.3 mm in diameter. The distinction between sōmen and the next thicker wheat noodles hiyamugi and even thicker Japanese wheat...
x Udon Tempura Udon      
Udon (饂飩, usually written as うどん) is a type of thick wheat-flour noodle of Japanese cuisine. Udon is usually served hot as noodle soup in its simplest form as kake udon, in a mildly flavoured broth called kakejiru which is made of dashi, soy sauce ...
x Rice vermicelli Reisnudeln   Bun Rieu  
Rice vermicelli are thin noodles made from rice and are a form of rice noodles. They are sometimes referred to as rice noodles or rice sticks, but they should not be confused with cellophane noodles, which is another type of vermicelli. Rice...
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