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See also References Further reading External links A acidulate To use an acid (such as that found in citrus juice, vinegar, or wine) to prevent browning, alter flavour, or make an item safe for canning. al dente To cook food (typically pasta) to the point where it is tender but not mushy. amandine A culinary term indicating a garnish of almonds. A dish served amandine is usually cooked with ...
Gordon Ramsay's Home Cooking is a British television programme which British chef, Gordon Ramsay, "teaches viewers how to cook simple, tasty, amazing food every day". [1] It aired for a single season of 20 episodes on Channel 4 in October and November 2013. [ 2 ]
The meals demonstrated by chef Gordon Ramsay are meant to represent a hundred core recipes. [2] The first series of 20 episodes airs at 5 pm on Channel 4 in the UK. [ 3 ] Along with Hugh's 3 Good Things (hosted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall ), and Jamie's 15-Minute Meals , Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course was one of three new daytime ...
Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire , to using electric stoves , to baking in various types of ovens , reflecting local ...
The origins of culinary arts began with primitive humans roughly 2 million years ago. [3] Various theories exist as to how early humans used fire to cook meat. According to anthropologist Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, [4] primitive humans simply tossed a raw hunk of meat into the flames and watched it ...
A cookbook or cookery book [1] is a kitchen reference containing recipes. Cookbooks may be general, or may specialize in a particular cuisine or category of food. Recipes in cookbooks are organized in various ways: by course (appetizer, first course, main course, dessert), by main ingredient, by cooking technique, alphabetically, by region or ...
[2] Barbecuing – method of cooking meat, poultry and occasionally fish with the heat and hot smoke of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of charcoal. Roasting, medieval illuminated manuscript ( Tacuina sanitatis casanatensis 14th century) Cooking with charcoal on a barbecue grill
The system can be traced back to the measuring systems of the Hindus [18]: B-9 and the ancient Egyptians, who subdivided the hekat (about 4.8 litres) into parts of 1 ⁄ 2, 1 ⁄ 4, 1 ⁄ 8, 1 ⁄ 16, 1 ⁄ 32, and 1 ⁄ 64 (1 ro, or mouthful, or about 14.5 ml), [19] and the hin similarly down to 1 ⁄ 32 (1 ro) using hieratic notation, [20] as ...