Cook(ing)
You may think that (cook, n.) 'a person whose occupation is the preparing and cooking of food' is an Old English word deriving from the many Germanic relatives like the Old Saxon kok and the Old German koh. In fact,
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Culinary
The word (culinary, adj.) enters the language during the latter third of the Early Modern English period, from the Latin culinarius . The...
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Cuisine
The word (cuisine, n.) is the first, and not last, in this series to come from French, from the French word for 'kitchen'. Like culinary...
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Recipe
The original term (recipe, v.) was used as an imperative to consume something and followed by (an) ingredient(s) to do so with, such as...
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Bake
Anglo-Saxon bread, during the Old English period, was baked in a sort of make-shift oven by those who could not afford to bring their...
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Blanch
In the scope of this study, the culinary context, the Oxford English Dictionary defines the word (blanch, v.) as: " Cookery . To whiten...
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Braise
Acorrding to Howard Yoon at NPR and his scientific sources, the act of braising food, particularly meat and poultry, dates back over...
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Boil
The word (boil, v.) is also from French, from the word boiller . While it is a regular verb in the English language as boil , it is an...
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