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brine. To soak a food item in salted water. broasting. A method of cooking chicken and other foods using a pressure fryer and condiments. browning. The process of partially cooking the surface of meat to help remove excessive fat and to give the meat a brown color crust and flavor through various browning reactions.
Culinary triangle. The culinary triangle is a concept described by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss involving three types of cooking: boiling, roasting, and smoking, usually done to meat. Boiling meat is seen to be a cultural form of cooking because it uses a receptacle to hold water, therefore it is not completely natural.
Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air covers the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least 150 °C (300 °F) from an open flame, oven, or other heat source. Roasting can enhance the flavor through caramelization and Maillard browning on the surface of the food. Roasting uses indirect, diffused ...
Conching. Confit. List of cooking techniques. Cooking with alcohol. Creaming (food) Culinary triangle. Curdling. Cured fish. Curing (food preservation)
Julia's Kitchen Wisdom (Knopf, 2000) is the final cookbook authored by chef and television personality Julia Child. Co-authored by David Nussbaum and edited by Judith Jones, the book covers basic cooking principles and techniques and was designed to serve as a reference point for amateur cooks. Julia's Kitchen Wisdom was the 17th book written ...
Indian cookbooks. Indian cookbooks are cookbooks written in India, or about Indian cooking. [1] Indian cooking varies regionally and has evolved over the centuries due to various influences. Vegetarianism has made a significant impact on Indian cooking [2] and spices play a major role as well. [3]
The word washoku is now the common word for traditional Japanese cooking. The term kappō (割烹, lit. "cutting and boiling (meats)") is synonymous with "cooking", but became a reference to mostly Japanese cooking, or restaurants, and was much used in the Meiji and Taishō eras.
Frying. Fried plantain. Frying is the cooking of food in oil or another fat. [a][1] Similar to sautéing, pan-fried foods are generally turned over once or twice during cooking to make sure that the food is well-made, using tongs or a spatula, whilst sautéed foods are cooked by "tossing in the pan". [2] A large variety of foods may be fried.