appetite - the feeling that you want to eat food, artichoke - a plant with a round mass of pointed parts like leaves surrounding its flower that are eaten as a vegetable, atmosphere - the mixture of gases around the earth, bakery goods - bread, cakes, pastries, and similar items of food that are cooked in an oven, bay leaf - the leaves of an evergreen tree, which are dried and used in cooking to add flavour, casserole - a dish made by cooking meat, vegetables, or other foods in liquid inside a heavy container at low heat; heavy, deep container with a lid used in cooking such dishes, chamomile - an aromatic European plant of the daisy family, with white and yellow flowers, cinnamon - the bark (= hard outer covering) of a tropical tree, or a brown powder made from this, used as a spice to give a particular taste to food, especially sweet food, cod - a large sea fish that can be eaten, or the meat of this fish, colander - a bowl with small holes in it, used for washing food or for emptying food into when it has been cooked in water, consensus - a generally accepted opinion or decision among a group of people, coriander - a plant whose leaves or seeds are added to food to give a special flavour, crop - (the total amount collected of) a plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable grown in large amounts, cuisine - a style of cooking, diner - cheap, informal restaurant that traditionally is long and narrow and looks like part of a train, in which people sit at a counter and also in booths, flavour - how food or drink tastes, or a particular taste itself, food processor - an electric machine that cuts, slices, and mixes food quickly, foot - a unit of measurement, equal to twelve inches or 0.3048 metres, sometimes shown by the symbol ′, gallon - in the UK, a unit for measuring the volume of a liquid or gas, equal to approximately 4.55 litres; in the US, a unit for measuring the volume of a liquid, equal to approximately 3.79 litres, ginger - the spicy root of a tropical plant that is used in cooking or preserved in sugar, or a powder made from this root, used as a spice, harvesting - the activity of picking and collecting crops, or of collecting plants, animals, or fish to eat, herb - a type of plant whose leaves are used in cooking to give flavour to particular dishes or in making medicine, herbicide - a substance that is toxic to plants, used to destroy unwanted vegetation., intervention - the action of becoming intentionally involved in a difficult situation, in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse, ladle - a very big spoon with a long handle and a deep cup-shaped part, used especially for serving soup, lentil - a very small dried bean that is cooked and eaten, market research - the collection and study of information about what people prefer to buy, mint - a herb whose leaves have a strong, fresh smell and taste and are used for giving flavour to food, mission - an important job, especially a military one, that someone is sent somewhere to do; any work that someone believes it is their duty to do, oat - cereal plant with a loose, branched cluster of florets, cultivated in cool climates and widely used for animal feed, okra - the small green pods from a tropical plant eaten as a vegetable or used to make foods such as soup thicker, or the plant itself, ounce - a unit of weight equal to approximately 28 grams, parsley - a type of herb with curly or flat leaves, used to add flavour to food and also to make it look attractive, pestle and mortar - set of two simple tools used from the Stone Age to the present day to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them, pint - a measure for liquid equal to about half a litre. There are eight pints in a gallon, pomegranate - a round, thick-skinned fruit containing a mass of red seeds and a lot of juice, pound - a unit for measuring weight which is approximately equal to 454 grams., pumpkin - a large, round vegetable with hard, yellow or orange flesh, restaurateur - a person who owns and manages a restaurant, root vegetable - a vegetable such as a carrot or turnip that is the root of a plant, salad green - vegetables that are grown for their leaves and commonly used in salads., silk - a delicate, soft type of cloth made from a thread produced by silkworms, or the thread itself, soil - the material on the surface of the ground in which plants grow, speciality - a product that is extremely good in a particular place, tagine - a North African stew of spiced meat and vegetables prepared by slow cooking in a shallow earthenware cooking dish with a tall, conical lid, tangerine - a fruit like a small orange with a loose skin, tractor - a motor vehicle with large back wheels and thick tyres, used on farms for pulling machinery, turnip - a rounded, white root that is eaten cooked as a vegetable, or the plant that produces it, venture - a new activity, usually in business, that involves risk or uncertainty, whisk - a kitchen tool that you use for beating food such as eggs and cream in order to add air and make it light, wok - a large, bowl-shaped Chinese pan used for frying food quickly in hot oil, yard - a unit of measurement equal to three feet or approximately 91.4 centimetres, beat - relating to biodynamics (= a particular type of organic farming or plant growing), or produced according to its principles, braise - to mix something repeatedly using a utensil such as a spoon or whisk, chop - to cook food slowly in a covered dish in a little fat and liquid, crush - to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument, deep-fry - to press something very hard so that it is broken or its shape is destroyed, drain - to fry food in a deep pan in which the food is completely covered by oil, lease - to remove the liquid from sth, usually by pouring it away or allowing it to flow away, and if something drains, liquid flows away or out of it., sacrifice - to make a legal agreement by which money is paid in order to use land, a building, a vehicle, or a piece of equipment for an agreed period of time, stew - to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person, stimulate - to cook meat, fish, vegetables, or fruit slowly and gently in a little liquid, stir-fry - to encourage something to grow, develop, or become active, switch to - to fry small pieces of meat, vegetables, etc. quickly while mixing them around, wrap - to change suddenly or completely, especially from one thing to another, or to exchange by replacing one person or thing with another, biodynamic - to cover or surround something with paper, cloth, or other material, ethnic - relating or belonging to a group of people who can be seen as distinct (= different) because they have a shared culture, tradition, language, history, , food-conscious - being aware of the food and drink you put into your body, observing how the food makes you feel and the signals your body sends about taste, satisfaction, and fullness, imperial - used to describe a UK system of measurement that uses units such as inches, ounces, and pints, latter - near or towards the end of something, metric - using or relating to a system of measurement that uses metres, centimetres, litres, etc, organic - not using artificial chemicals in the growing of plants and animals for food and other products, passionate - having very strong feelings or emotions, pioneering - using ideas and methods that have never been used before, pre-measured - careful and controlled in advance, questionable - not certain, or wrong in some way, seasonal - relating to or happening during a particular period in the year, spicy - containing strong flavours from spices, sustainable - able to continue over a period of time, typical - showing all the characteristics that you would usually expect from a particular group of things, eat my words - retract what one has said, especially in a humiliated way, fish out water - person away from his or her usual environment or activities, fishy - seeming dishonest or false, have her cake and eat it - to have or enjoy the good parts of something without having or dealing with the bad parts, make a meal of it - to spend more time or energy doing something than is necessary, ranging from sth to sth - to vary or extend between specified limits, realice a dream - to make one’s dream true, sour grapes - used to refer to an attitude in which someone adopts a negative attitude to something because they cannot have it themselves, to put it another way - used when you are going to explain something in a different way in order to make it easier to understand, what a shame - used for expressing sympathy or disappointment,

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