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Preparation techniques and cooking items

Utensils Techniques Weights and measures based on pic with no restrictions on sxc. ... A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning cooking; culinary art; kitchen; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning to cook) is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin. ... This is a list of food preparation utensils, also known as kitchenware. ... Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. ... // United States measures Note that the measurements in this section are in U.S. customary units. ...

Ingredients and types of food

Spices and Herbs Sauces - Soups Cheese - Pasta Other ingredients List of recipes Desserts A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark or resin substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for the purpose of flavouring. ... A herb (pronounced hurb in Commonwealth English and urb in American English) is a plant grown for culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual value. ... For the computer protocol, see SAUCE In cooking, a sauce is a liquid served on or used in the preparation of food. ... Soup is a savoury liquid food that is made by boiling ingredients, such as meat, vegetables and beans in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of various mammals—most commonly cows but sometimes goats, sheep, or buffalo. ... The English word pasta generally refers to noodles and other food products made from a flour and water paste, often including also egg and salt. ... Food is any substance consumed by living organisms, including liquid drinks. ... // Recipes by category Albanian cuisine Albanian vegetable pie: article, recipe Baked lamb and yogurt: recipe Baked leeks: recipe Bean Jahni soup: recipe Ellis veal or chicken with walnuts recipe Fërgesë of Tirana with peppers: recipe Fërgesë of Tirana with veal: recipe Fried meatballs: recipe Garlic dressings: recipe... WINKY DESSERTS!!!!!! ...

Cuisines

Regional Africa - Asia - Caribbean South Asian - Latin America Middle East - The West Sample food of Zimbabwe Cuisine of Africa reflects indigenous traditions, as well as influences from Arabs, Europeans, and Asians. ... Asian cuisine is a term for the various cuisines of East and Southeast Asia and for fusion dishes based on combining them. ... Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of Spanish, French, African, Amerindian and Indian cuisine. ... South Asian cuisine includes the cuisines of the Indian subcontinent. ... See the individual entries for: Argentine cuisine Brazilian cuisine Mexican cuisine South American cuisine . ... The term Middle Eastern cuisine refers to the cuisines of the Middle East. ... Western cuisine is a term used for cuisine in The Americas and in Europe. ... National American - British - Chinese French - German - Indian - Italian - Lao Japanese - Korean - Mexican Polish - Russian - Spanish - Turkish Other cuisines... Famous chefs This is a list of famous and notable chefs: Real chefs Ferran Adrià Mario Batali James Beard Raymond Blanc Heston Blumenthal Paul Bocuse Daniel Boulud Anthony Bourdain Alton Brown Antoine Carême Chen Kenichi Michael Chiarello Julia Child George Crum Juan Carlos Cruz Clarissa Dickson-Wright Rocco DiSpirito Alain Ducasse...

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Kitchens - Meals Wikibooks: Cookbook A kitchen is a room used for food preparation. ... A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared food. ...

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Characteristics & influences

New Zealand cuisine is characterised by its freshness and diversity. Diversity is owed to its relative youth, in world terms, which brings a willingness to experiment with food. Freshness is owed to its surrounding ocean and fertile lands. Its distinctiveness is more in the way New Zealanders eat - generally preferring as relaxed and unaffected as possible.

New Zealand’s cuisine has been described as Pacific Rim, drawing inspiration from Europe, Asia, Polynesia and its indigenous people, the Maori. For dishes that have a distinctly New Zealand style, there’s lamb, pork and cervena (venison), salmon, crayfish (lobster), Bluff oysters, paua (abalone), mussels, scallops, pipis and tuatua (both are types of New Zealand shellfish); kumara (sweet potato), kiwifruit, tamarillo , feijoa, Hokey Pokey Ice Cream and pavlova, the national dessert. Map of the Pacific Rim and List of the Pacific Rim Nations The USS Abraham Lincoln Battle Group along with ships from Australia, Chile, Japan, Canada, and Korea speed towards Honolulu in RIMPAC 2000. ... A lamb being bottle fed Lamb A lamb is a young sheep. ... Hormel Pork Loin Filets This article is on meat. ... Venison is most often associated with the meat of deer, but it also includes the meat of moose, elk, caribou, and antelope. ... The Chinook or King Salmon is the largest salmon in North America and can grow up to 58 long and 126 pounds. ... Families Astacoidea   Astacidae   Cambaridae Parastacoidea   Parastacidae Crayfish, sometimes called crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs, yabbies, or spoondogs, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are closely related. ... The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water. ... A piece of abalone shell Abalone is the Spanish name used in the United States for various species of shellfish (mollusks) from the Haliotidae family (genus Haliotis), with a richly coloured (on the inside--the outside is rough and mostly brown) shell yielding mother-of-pearl. ... Orders A mussel is a bivalve mollusc that can be found in lakes, rivers, creeks, intertidal areas, and throughout the ocean. ... Genera See text Scallops are the family Pectinidae of bivalve molluscs. ... Binomial name Ipomoea batatas Linnaeus The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a crop plant whose large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable. ... The Kiwifruit or Chinese Gooseberry is the edible fruit of a Cultivar Group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia. ... Binomial name Cyphomandra betacea Tamarillo or Tree Tomato (Cyphomandra betacea; Solanaceae) is an egg-shaped fruit with a thin skin and a soft flesh (when ripe) with dark-coloured seeds occupying about one third of the interior. ... Binomial name Feijoa sellowiana O. Berg The Feijoa (Feijoa sellowiana, synonym Acca sellowiana), also known as Pineapple Guava, is an evergreen shrub or small tree, 1-7 m in height, originating from the highlands of southern Brazil and northern Argentina. ... Pavlova is a light and fluffy meringue dessert named after the ballet dancer, Anna Pavlova. ...

Perhaps even better known than New Zealand lamb, mussels and other foods are the country’s wines. There are 10 major wine-producing areas in New Zealand, with Marlborough famed for its sauvignon blanc, Gisborne for its chardonnay, and Central Otago and Martinborough building a reputation for pinot noir and pinot gris. Hawke’s Bay is known for its bold cabernets and Auckland’s Waiheke Island is home to one of the top 20 cabernet blends in the world. Marlborough and Hawke's Bay are New Zealand’s two premium wine-growing regions. Sauvignon blanc is a white wine grape probably originating in the Bordeaux region of France that is now planted in much of the worlds winelands producing a crisp dry refreshing white varietal wine. ... Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used to make a white varietal wine. ... Pinot Noir is a red wine grape variety, considered to make some of the greatest wines. ... Pinot Gris (or Tokay Pinot Gris) is a white wine grape of species Vitis vinifera related to Pinot noir which goes by a lot of other names: Pinot Grigio (Italy) Pinot Beurot (Loire Valley, France) Ruländer (Austria and Germany, Romania, sweet) Grauburgunder or Grauer burgunder (Austria and Germany, dry... Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety of red grape mainly used for wine production, and is, along with Chardonnay, one of the most widely-planted of the worlds noble grape varieties. ... Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest urban area in New Zealand. ... A true-colour image showing the Hauraki Gulf. ... Marlborough (pronounced Maulbruh - /ˈmɔːlbɹə/ in IPA) is a market town in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath. ... Hawkes Bay is a region of New Zealand. ...

Owing to its colonial origin (shared with Australia), New Zealand cuisine is traditionally simple fare such as "meat and three veg", espoused by the bestselling Edmonds Cookbook. Tea is the main meal of the day, when Kiwi families gather, and share their evening together. With the Kiwi penchant for travel, and multicultural social trends, traditional eating habits are changing. Tea (a meal, as opposed to the beverage), has different meanings according to country. ... Alternative meanings of Kiwi at Kiwi (disambiguation) Kiwi is the nickname used internationally for people from New Zealand. ... Multiculturalism is a policy that emphasizes the unique characteristics of different cultures, especially as they relate to one another in receiving nations. ...

Casual Kiwi cuisine

The New Zealand summer sees many eat outdoors, often in a barbecue setting. Kiwi barbecues - featuring New Zealand beef, lamb and seafood - are a big part of the culture, and typify the laid-back nature of the New Zealand people. A member of the Airpork Crew barbecue team prepares pork shoulder at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. ... Seafood in Brussels, Belgium Seafood is any sea animal that is served as food or is suitable for eating. ...

A Maori specialty is the hangi (pronounced hung-ee), a pit in which meats or fish are cooked with vegetables. A deep hole is dug in the ground, lined with red-hot stones and covered with vegetation. The food is then placed on top. The whole oven is sprinkled with water and sealed with more vegetation. The hole is then filled with earth and left to steam for several hours. Traditionally, men dig and prepare the hole, and women prepare the food to go in it. All members of an extended family (whanau) help out for such a feast. The occasion is relaxed, friendly and fun, with people often eating the meal under a marquee. Hangi is a New Zealand Maori word for a method of cooking in an outdoor pit oven. ...

New Zealand cuisine experience is incomplete without enjoying traditional fish and chips served wrapped in paper. Fish and chips in wrapping paper Fish and chips is deep-fried fish in batter with deep-fried potatoes, and is a popular take-away food. ...

New Zealand dishes include:

• Fish and Chips
• Colonial Goose (a surprisingly effective preparation of roast leg of lamb)

Desserts: Fish and chips in wrapping paper Fish and chips is deep-fried fish in batter with deep-fried potatoes, and is a popular take-away food. ... Colonial Goose is the name for a surprisingly effective preparation of roast leg of lamb. ...

• Pavlova (a light and fluffy meringue dessert named after the ballet dancer, Anna Pavlova)
• Lamingtons (a type of sponge cake (or more traditionally, butter cake) squares, coated in a layer of chocolate icing or strawberry jam, then desiccated coconut)
• Anzac biscuits

See also: Pavlova is a light and fluffy meringue dessert named after the ballet dancer, Anna Pavlova. ... Lamingtons are a type of sponge cake (or more traditionally, butter cake) squares, coated in a layer of flavoured gelatin (or traditionally chocolate icing or strawberry jam), then desiccated coconut. ... ANZAC biscuits were (re)invented in New Zealand during the food rationing of World War II. The biscuits were first thought to have been made by Australian and New Zealand women for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers of World War I and were first called Soldiers...

Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject:

Cuisine of New Zealand

• Cuisine
• Recipe
• Cooking

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External links

• www.cuisine.co.nz
• Webpage on traditional Maori food
• New Zealand restaurant review and dining guide
• New_Zealand Recipes on CookBookWiki.com