semi-homemade

Her favorite pancakes are semi-homemade — she starts with a certain premade pancake mix and then adds cinnamon, barley flour, and other treats.

Even the onion soup was semi-homemade, a bit salty, but better than many a pretentious French restaurant.

1974, The Washingtonian - Volume 9, page 134:

The younger women, many whom were employed mothers, found the product's convenience appealing. Older women were more likely either to stick with homemade stuffing or to use Stove Top as the foundation to a semi-homemade product.

1995, Gail Baker-Woods, Advertising and Marketing to the New Majority, page 72:

The more I thought about it, the better Jaxon 's little joke about Semi-Homemade sounded. On the way home, I dropped by KFC. Once home, I put the chicken in a pan, poured the cream of mushroom soup over it and cooked up a pot of rice.

2008, Kimberly T. Matthews, A Little Hurt Ain't Never Hurt Nobody, →ISBN, page 113:

If moving to real foods all at once is too big a step, consider some hybrid meals as a transition, using both real and processed foods. Sandra Lee's “semi-homemade” cooking is an example of this approach.

2011, William D. Lassek, Steven Gaulin, Why Women Need Fat, →ISBN:

While semi-homemade, 30-minute meals have sadly become de reigueur these days, they were a foreign concept to us.

2011, Julia Usher, Julia M. Usher's Ultimate Cookies, →ISBN, page 7:

Partially homemade; for example, made at home with some store-bought ingredients, components, or subassemblies.

(cooking) Based on commercially available convenience food, which is then customized at home with some more ingredients, often ones that are less processed (such as chopped whole foods).


thukpa

en-noun

thukpa (countable and uncountable, plural thukpas)

Sometimes a little vegetables, sometimes a little meat, sometimes a little soup with noodles, tomatoes and cabbage. Thukpa they are calling it.

1983, Andrew Harvey, A Journey in Ladakh:

The Sherpas helped us build a cooking fire at the end of the day, and then Norzin, Cherry from Sikkim, and I cooked Tibetan rice or flour soups called thukpas for the group of German, Thai, Indian, Australian, and British friends.

2001, Namgyal Lhamo Taklha, Born in Lhasa, page 64:

Thukpa is a generic Tibetan word for any soup or stew combined with noodles. This particular thukpa uses fresh homemade egg noodles and can also be called Chinese thukpa.

2014, Lee Geok Boi, Asian Noodles, page 163:


pie iron

An electrical device for making sandwiches.


snake wine

snake wine (usually uncountable, plural snake wines)

An Asian alcoholic beverage produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol, and traditionally believed to have curative effects.


pla ra

A traditional Thai seasoning made by fermenting fish with rice bran or roasted rice powder and salt for a long period.


hongeohoe

A Korean dish of fermented skate, known for its strong smell.


powsowdie

A Scottish broth made from a sheep's head, often with other ingredients such as the sheep's trotters, dried peas, and barley.


spiedie sauce

A sauce consisting of oil, vinegar, lemon juice and herbs like oregano, in which spiedie sandwiches are marinated.


English breakfast

English breakfast (plural English breakfasts)

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mapo doufu

A Chinese dish from Sichuan province consisting of tofu set in a spicy chili- and bean-based sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, and often cooked with douchi (fermented black beans) and minced meat, usually pork or beef.


tonir

Borrowed from Armenian թոնիր (tʻonir). Doublet of tandoor.


chocolate chipper

chocolate chipper (plural chocolate chippers)

They had taken a lot of cookie communion since their mother’s death, but the jar was still packed to the rim. On this particular night, the ones on top were macaroons. When Rhett stirred them aside, he saw chocolate chippers beneath.


Texas chili

Texas chili (usually uncountable, plural Texas chilis)

“I think there is probably no consensus on one idea (of what defines chili), but the reason why we don’t allow beans in chili is number one: real Texas chili has always been known as meat and the sauce with peppers,” Hancock said. “Beans don’t come into play at the cook-off because if our judges are trying to determine a taste, beans are a dominant flavor and we wouldn’t get the pure chili taste.”

2024 January 10, Matilda Preisendorf, “Why Texas Chili Doesn’t Have Beans”, in Local Profile:


plain chocolate

plain chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural plain chocolates)


country wine

French wine, made in a named region to a standard greater than ordinary table wine


Verde Mary

Blend of verde (“green”) + Bloody Mary From being a green cocktail like a bloody mary, and tomatillos being Latin American thus Spanish verde ("green" in Spanish)

An alcoholic cocktail using juiced and pulped green tomatillos in place of red tomatoes; with a mix of spices and a vodka base


Virgin Caesar

Blend of virgin + Bloody Caesar from non-alcoholic versions of drinks being labelled "virgin"

A non-alcoholic version of a Bloody Caesar composed of spices and a clamato juice base


sun-dry

en-verb

sun-dry (third-person singular simple present sun-dries, present participle sun-drying, simple past and past participle sun-dried)

sun-dries (present singular third-person)
sun-drying (participle present)
sun-dried (participle past)
sun-dried (past)

(transitive) To dry in the sun, especially food.


shedista

If I have any complaint, it is that some of the pieces are too short. The interesting and informative article about the so-called shedistas — low-budget wineries that have sprouted up in and around Santa Barbara that are now turning out some of California’s most exciting wines — would have been even better with a few more pages.

2006 October 22, Michael Steinberger, “Drinking Deeply”, in The New York Times:

From South Africa’s stunningly beautiful winelands to “shedistas” making wine in California industrial parks, from ubiquitous California chardonnay to the obscure Sagrantino di Montefalco, he gives us straightforward but nicely written descriptions of how wine tastes and what it goes with.

2006 November 16, Fred Tasker, “Hedonism lite”, in The Miami Herald:

The typical Santa Barbara shedista narrative goes like this: you start working in the cellar of a bigger winery and learn the ropes: the region, the vinyards, and the growers. Eventually you borrow from relatives and max out your credit cards to rent a shed, buy a few tanks and a few tons of Syrah, design a label, and make your own wine. You share equipment and wine notes with friends. And you keep your day job in the meantime.

2012, Jay McInerney, A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine, →ISBN:


suprême sauce

en-noun

suprême sauce (countable and uncountable, plural suprême sauces)

For example, to make suprême sauce, you add cream to chicken velouté. To make Albufera sauce, you can add meat glaze (glace de viande) to your suprême sauce.

2010, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, College Version, →ISBN, page 181:

Serve with an appropriate sauce such as suprême sauce or white wine and mustard sauce.

2012, David Foskett, John Campbell, Patricia Paskins, Practical Cookery Level 3, →ISBN, page 123:

Suprême sauce gives its name to several dishes dear to epicures—suprême de volaille, suprême de Toulouse, etc.

2013, Catherine Owen, Choice Cookery, →ISBN:

(cooking) A sauce based on chicken velouté and heavy cream, known in French cuisine for its mellowness.


fish feed

Commercially manufactured feed for farmed fish


chili non carne

A vegetarian version of chili con carne.


gaiwan

From Mandarin 蓋碗 /盖碗 (gàiwǎn, literally “lidded bowl”).

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Perhaps the greatest vessel for brewing tea is one of the most simple in construction and design: the gaiwan. In use since at least the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), the gaiwan is ubiquitous in Chinese tea culture and consists of only a saucer, a bowl, and a lid.

2015, Joseph Wesley Uhl, The Art and Craft of Tea, Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 83:

A Chinese lidded cup or bowl, used to steep tea, sometimes including a saucer, developed during the Ming dynasty as an improvement upon the (lidless) chawan.


milk toast

en-noun

milk toast (countable and uncountable, plural milk toasts)

A food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk, typically with sugar and butter, but which also may contain other ingredients.


chicken feet

(Singapore, erroneous) Alternative form of chicken feed (“A simple or easy task”)


bamia

A Middle Eastern, Assyrian, Armenian, Afghan, Kurdish, and Anatolian stew usually based on lamb, okra, and tomatoes.


chocolate digestive

chocolate digestive (plural chocolate digestives)

(UK, Ireland, Canada) A digestive biscuit with a chocolate coating on one side.


manuka honey

manuka honey (usually uncountable, plural manuka honeys)

A monofloral honey produced from nectar of the manuka tree.


yuanyang

yuanyang (countable and uncountable, plural yuanyangs)

Borrowed from Mandarin 鴛鴦 /鸳鸯 (yuānyāng, literally “male (鴛) and female (鴦) mandarin duck”).

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The yuanyang are the male and female respectively of Anas galericulata, commonly called by Europeans "Mandarin duck." These beautiful water-fowl manifest when mated a singular degree of attachment for each other, and they have hence been elevated into the emblems of connubial affection and fidelity.

1889, Congressional Serial Set, page 460:

Yuanyang, the Mandarin duck, mates for life, and is hence a symbol of conjugal felicity.

2006, Pi-Ching Hsu, Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly:

May the pair of yuanyang 鸳鸯 augur well for our proposed union with Dominant Duck," said Susie gaily.

2016, Matt Huang, Grace Hsu, Young China Hand, →ISBN:

(China) A pair of mandarin ducks, one male and one female, as a symbol of faithful union.


sodabi

A liquor made from wine palm in Benin and Togo.


Tilsit

From German Tilsit, from the name of the Tilse River, from Old Prussian tilzi (“soggy”).

A light-yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese of East Prussian origin.


lemon chicken

A Chinese-style dish of fried, sometimes battered chicken in a thick, sweet lemon-flavoured sauce.


field ration

(military) A prepackaged meal, easily prepared and eaten, carried by military troops on the battlefield.


green cheese

en-noun

green cheese (countable and uncountable, plural green cheeses)

From green as in green (“unripe, unprocessed”) and green (“fresh, new, recent, young”). Compare greenhorn and vinho verde.

GREEN CHEESE SANDWICH: Spread on thin slices of lightly buttered white bread, green cheese grated fine. Put slices together and garnish with a sour pickle.

1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 115:

Fresh cheese that has not yet been dried and aged.


cruffin

"There are cruffins," I said, finally picking one up for myself. "We're not going anywhere."

For something lighter, the Chelsea buns are delightfully sticky, and you can also get your hands on a cruffin (yes, part croissant, part sourdough, part muffin).

I've given up on finding the next hot hybrid; the world doesn't need more cruffins or sconssants or any other Frankenpastry.

A pastry combining characteristics of a croissant and a muffin.


dog bread

A large quantity of the different kinds of damaged meal is annually baked in London into what is called dog-bread, for kennels, &c.

1810, William Dixon, An inquiry into the impolicy of the continuance of the prohibition of distillation from grain in Great-Britain:

Dog-bread, as Spratt's for instance, is convenient, but not good for regular use.

1884, Charles M. Green, The Friend of All: A Cyclopaedia of Practical Information for the Housekeeper, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Artisan, the Business Man, and the Young Folks:

Dog bread must be made from good wheat flour, of a medium sort, mixed with 15 or 16 per cent of sweet, dry chopped meat, well baked and dried like pilot bread or crackers.

1910, Gardner Dexter Hiscox, Henley's twentieth century book of recipes, formulas and processes, page 265:

The best things for dogs are meat — cooked, but a little raw meat at times does the dog good; hominy, dog bread, biscuits, bread, gravy, and in short everything you would eat yourself with the exception of potatoes and sweets. Do not eat dog bread yourself — you might grow a tail and bark.

(dated) A bread made for dogs to consume; a dog biscuit.


batonnet

From French bâtonnet (literally “small stick”).

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A piece of vegetable cut into the shape of a small stick.


vegansexual

A vegan who chooses to have sex or pursue sexual relationships only with other vegans.


Dobos torte

Named after its inventor, Hungarian confectioner József C. Dobos.

A Hungarian sponge cake layered with chocolate buttercream and topped with caramel.


Smith Island cake

en-noun

Smith Island cake (plural Smith Island cakes)

An iced cake from Smith Island, Maryland, with numerous thin layers filled with creme, frosting and/or crushed candy bars.


Doberge cake

Doberge cake (countable and uncountable, plural Doberge cakes)

The cake and its name are Frenchifications by New Orleans baker Beulah Levy Ledner of the Dobos torte, named for its creator, Hungarian József Dobos.

Lord, my Aunt Elva was evil and I wished her dead! But I smiled sweetly instead and offered her another piece of Doberge cake.

2016, Belinda Alexandra, “Ruby”, in Southern Ruby, Sydney, N.S.W.: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 28:

A dessert made of alternate layers of cake and pudding, often half chocolate and half lemon, and covered with a fondant shell or poured glaze.


prinzregententorte

German Prinzregententorte, literally "prince regent's cake", after Prince Regent Luitpold.

'I am an expert of apfelstrudel, pretzels and prinzregententorte!'

2015, Clémentine Beauvais, The Royal Bake Off:

We toasted my future with schnapps and prinzregententorte, the chocolate cake that my father claimed could bring back the dead.

2015, Pamela Schoenewaldt, Under the Same Blue Sky:

For dessert we will have the prinzregententorte with the ground coffee. Also a bottle of white house wine to go with the meal.

A Bavarian torte having thin layers of sponge cake separated by chocolate buttercream, topped with apricot jam and covered in a dark chocolate glaze.

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spit cake

Any of a variety of European cakes made by depositing layers of dough or batter, one at a time, onto a tapered cylindrical spit that rotates over a fire or in an oven.


rum popo

Two glasses and a quart of Rum Popo quickly followed.

1990, Ray Auxillou, The Blue Hole, page 231:

[…] magazines, drinking rum popos, calling friends. Now, finally, she felt good. When she felt good she didn't need anyone and no one could touch her or hurt her or throw her away or tell her she wasn't good enough.

1991, Deborah Rebollar Pintonelli, Ego Monkey:

Hoping that he had missed Fido's passenger truck bringing the “Orangewalkqueños” to town to buy linoleum and rum popo, Don Poldo geared up to thirty-five MPH, just about as fast as he could push the old Morris.

2002, Gay Alden Wilentz, Memories, Dreams and Nightmares, page 46:

In that beautiful spirit we say: Merry Krismos — may every home in Belize have a ham and turkey, a batl pahn table, black cake and rum popo for the gentle folk, and a special gift for the little ones.

2018 December 22, “April 10 – better than bread and circus”, in Amandala: Belize's Leading Newspaper:

The flan ($8) was milky and smooth, and the optional rum popo — a rum crème that’s similar to egg nog — gave it a little kick.

2019 February 13, Lennie Omalza, “This Mexican restaurant might have the best guac around Louisville”, in Courier Journal:

If you happen to be visiting in December or January, you might be lucky enough to sample this unusual Christmas treat, which is traditionally served with a rum popo, a sort of Belizean eggnog.

2019 September 18, “10 unmissable Belizean food experiences”, in The Telegraph:

The first drink I ever learned how to make was a Rum Popo, made for my mother just as soon as she was comfortable letting me or my sister handle a knife.

2020, Ivy Mix, Spirits of Latin America, page 153:


Esterházy torte

Esterházy torte (plural Esterházy tortes)

Probably named after Pál Antal Esterházy de Galántha (1786–1866), a member of the Hungarian Esterházy family.

A Hungarian cake consisting of chocolate buttercream sandwiched between four or five layers of sponge cake.

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gatter

But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.

Bet the Coaley's Daughter (traditional song)

(UK, slang, obsolete) Porter or other beer, or by extension any alcoholic drink.


Israeli salad

Israeli salad (countable and uncountable, plural Israeli salads)

A salad of finely diced tomato, onion, cucumber, and bell peppers or chili peppers.


pineapple cake

A small, sweet, crumbly cake containing butter, flour, egg, sugar, and pineapple jam, originating in Taiwan.


bourekas

Israeli snacks related to the burek, made from either phyllo dough or puff pastry, with various fillings.


bagna cauda

Borrowed from Italian bagna càuda (literally “hot bath, hot dip”), from Piedmontese.

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A hot Piedmontese dip made from salted anchovies, olive oil and garlic.

香蒜鯷魚熱蘸醬 /香蒜鳀鱼热蘸酱

dip made from anchovies, olive oil and garlic


cabbage roll

(food) A dish consisting of cooked cabbage leaves wrapped around a variety of fillings.


preprandially

In a preprandial manner; before a meal, especially dinner.


Lobster Thermidor

Named after the play Thermidor (1891), itself named for the eleventh month of the French Republican Calendar.

A creamy, cheesy mixture of cooked lobster meat, egg yolks, and brandy or sherry, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven-browned cheese crust.


Y Fenni

A Welsh cheese consisting of cheddar blended with mustard seed and ale.


ema datshi

A spicy Bhutanese dish made with chili peppers and cheese.


roof rabbit

From roof + rabbit. From the common habit of cats to prowl on rooftops, and the meat being sold or passed off as rabbit. Similar formations exist in several European languages. Perhaps the earliest attestation (and eventual origin?) is Middle Low German bönhase (“cat”, literally “loft hare”), which is attested in the early 14th century (as a name and thus probably even older). More at German Bönhase and Dachhase.

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dakhaas

(euphemistic) cat meat — see also cat meat


gutter rabbit

en-noun

gutter rabbit (countable and uncountable, plural gutter rabbits)

The Pastry Cook (ambulant) puts in his pies good gutter rabbits ( cats ) .

1823, Charles Persius (aka Chales Dunne), Rouge et Noir. The Academicians of 1823, page 376:

A waiter placed on the table a rabbit stew in a deep dish. Coupeau turned round. "Say, boy, is that a gutter rabbit? It mews still."

1882, Émile Zola, L'Assommoir, page 113:

The dog population began to shrink, while cat carcasses were decorated with colored paper and hung in butcher shop windows above signs that proclaimed the delicate pleasures of the "gutter rabbits” for sale inside.

Rat salami became a delicacy, and butchered cats were sold as "gutter rabbits.”

2019, Kathleen Sears, Socialism 101, page 76:

"Gutter-rabbit," as it was called, was plentiful enough for a time; but when Paris surrendered there was not a cat left in the city.

1893, Henry Vizetelly, Glances Back Through Seventy Years, page 427:

During the siege of Paris, and even much later, in certain quarters of Paris, they'd eat 'gutter rabbit' and 'mutton-flavoured rat'.

2023, Gérard Genette, Bardadrac, page 32:

(countable) A cat, or cat meat (served as a substitute for rabbit).


omurice

Borrowed from Japanese オムライス (omuraisu), from French omelette and English rice.

A Japanese dish consisting of an egg omelette with rice mixed with ketchup in the center.


Tuscan porterhouse

Tuscan porterhouse (plural Tuscan porterhouses)

From Tuscan + porterhouse, from being a beefsteak dish originating from the Tuscan city of Florence in Italy based on the porterhouse cut.

(cooking) The traditional signature steak dish from Florence, Tuscany, Italy, consisting of a large thick-cut porterhouse or T-bone steak grilled to rare and seasoned with lemon.


chicken finger

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From chicken + finger, in reference to general shape and size.

CHICKEN FINGERS Shape finely minced chicken into inch-long fingers, roll each in cracker dust and fry in hot deep fat until golden brown.

1933, Paul Mandeville, editor, Eggs, page 434:

(cooking, usually in the plural) A narrow strip of deep-fried chicken, generally without bones or skin, often coated in bread crumbs or similar coating.


dude food

(informal) Junk food prepared with simple ingredients and with an emphasis on meat.


rice paddle

As soon as the rice is cooked, immediately turn it out into a large shallow bowl or onto a platter and spread out gently with a rice paddle or wooden spatula.

2003, Jeffrey Alford, Seductions of Rice, page 215:

A kitchen utensil used to stir and serve rice.


naporitan

Borrowed from Japanese ナポリタン (naporitan), from French napolitain (“Neapolitan”), from Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis (“Naples”), from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polĭs). Doublet of Neapolitan.

A Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, bacon and Tabasco sauce.


camote cue

A Philippine snack made by coating deep-fried slices of sweet potato in caramelized brown sugar.


marbit

[…] cereal bits in Lucky Charms. The original marbit was a multi-colored rainbow, but it was not long before new shapes and colors were born. Pink hearts, purple horseshoes, blue moons, and of course, green clovers […]

2009, Richard W. Hartel, AnnaKate Hartel, Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat, page 70:

A small piece of dehydrated marshmallow, used in breakfast cereals etc.


parliament cake

(Scotland, archaic) Gingerbread in flat slices.


kanafeh

Borrowed from Arabic كُنافة (kunāfa), itself possibly from Coptic ⲕⲉⲛⲉⲫⲓⲧⲉⲛ (kenephiten).

A Middle Eastern dessert composed of a cheese pastry soaked in syrup.


tteokbokki

Borrowed from Korean 떡볶이 (tteokbokki), from 떡 (tteok, “rice cake”) + 볶이 (bokki, “stir-fried and seasoned food”).

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At the Momofuku restaurants, David Chang made his name by layering the intense flavors of Korea into Japanese and American dishes; at Ssam Bar, his version of tteokbokki is crossbred with Italian gnocchi in a light, fiery, herb-spiked pork sauce.

2009 September 23, Julia Moskin, “Culinary Diplomacy With a Side of Kimchi”, in The New York Times:

Stir-fried sliced tteoks (Korean rice cakes) seasoned with red pepper paste.

辣炒年糕

stir-fried tteoks seasoned with red pepper paste


fontinella

The easy-to-share $25 selection offers a choice of five from more than a dozen possibilities that include lean prosciutto, bresaola and hot or sweet soppressata (all dewy fresh  no dry end cuts or edges here) as well as cheeses like fontinella, provolone and Gorgonzola served at perfect temperatures.

2009 October 4, M. H. Reed, “A Trip Through Italy, With Some Surprises”, in New York Times:

A creamy Italian cheese, somewhat like fontina, sometimes used to make fonduta


mafalde

A type of fettuccine that has curly edges


karaage

/kəˈɹɑː.ɡeɪ/

/kɑˈɹɑː.ɡeɪ/

Borrowed from Japanese 唐揚げ (からあげ, karaage).

Although Japan’s culinary lexicon did not include deep frying until the Portuguese introduced it in the 16th century, the country now has at least three distinct fried chicken styles: katsu, with super-crisp panko or bread crumbs, is used for pounded breasts; karaage, ginger-and-garlic-marinated thighs in a light, puffy crust of sweet-potato starch; and Nagoya-style tebasaki, or wings.

2009 October 7, Julia Moskin, “Fried Chicken: A Migratory Bird”, in New York Times:

Japanese or Korean food that is dipped in flour and then deep-fried.


yuzukosho

Or in being cast in the shade by a one-bite mille-feuille whose crisp layers of rye pastry, sprinkled with green tea powder, hold lush yuzukosho béchamel and briny little globes of trout roe.

2015 October 13, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Momofuku Ko in the East Village”, in New York Times:


busiate

Also appreciated was a hearty portion of busiate, a long local noodle curled in on itself, served with Trapani’s signature garlic, tomato and almond pesto.

2015 October 15, Paul Greenberg, “In Sicily, Tasting Seafood With a Skeptical Son”, in New York Times:

A form of trofie pasta from the region of Trapani.


falanghina

en-noun

falanghina (countable and uncountable, plural falanghinas)

From Italian falanghina, possibly derived, through Neapolitan, from Latin phalanga (“pole for carrying things”, by extension “pole for sustaining grapevine”), from Ancient Greek φᾰ́λᾰγξ (phắlănx, “line, rank”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, plank”).

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The light white wine produced with this type of grape.


Olomouc cheese

The proper noun Olomouc refers to the fact that the cheese has been traditionally produced in the surroundings of the city of Olomouc and in the past used to be sold especially in Olomouc markets.

Excess acidity has been neutralized in some milks by the use of sodium bicarbonate or sodium carbonate, e.g. in the former Czechoslovakia for Olomouc cheese.

1998, R. Andrew Wilbey, J.E. Scott, Richard K. Robinson, Cheesemaking Practice, New York: Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 102:

Try the zingy wheat beer with the stinky Olomouc cheese.

2009, Lisa Dunford, Central Europe, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 148:

a kind of ripened soft cheese, characteristic with its strong scent, distinctive pungent taste and yellowish colour, traditionally made in central Moravia, the Czech Republic


kadhi

en-noun

kadhi (countable and uncountable, plural kadhis)

(India) A curry made from chickpea flour and yoghurt which is served with pakoras.


magwinya

(South Africa, Botswana) Synonym of vetkoek


Dutch doughnut

An oliebol; a deep-fried non-toroidal dumpling made of soft dough, traditionally eaten in Belgium and the Netherlands at fairs and on New Year's Eve.


sikhye

a sweet beverage made with barley and rice, and sometimes with pine nuts.


Jack Rose

Brett did not turn up, so about quarter to six I went down to the bar and had a Jack Rose with George the barman.

1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 66:

A cocktail made from applejack, grenadine and lemon or lime juice.


nabemono

Borrowed from Japanese 鍋物, literally "cooking-pot things."

Any of a variety of Japanese hot pot dishes.


cheese stick

“Give me your cheese stick!” Dan demanded angrily with his hand held out. “But this is my cheese stick!” protested Sarah. Dan took another step closer to Sarah so he was standing almost on top of her. “I said give me your cheese stick!

2008, Bec Furraway, Sarah Meets a Bully, →ISBN, page 9:

One cheese stick is only 80 kcalories; however, four to five cheese sticks add up to 320 to 400 kcalories.

2014, Amy Christine Brown, Understanding Food: Principles and Preparation, →ISBN, page 238:

It is good!” Ganbold said, and began to peel the foil away from his cheese stick.

A short, cylindrical, usually individually-wrapped serving of string cheese (or, less commonly, other non-string cheeses).

Then he added a cheese stick: a one-inch-square by five-inch-long lump of mild cheddar cheese dipped in the same cornmeal batter and deep-fried.

1984, Chase Revel, 184 Businesses Anyone Can Start and Make, →ISBN, page 129:

The sample set consisted of eight commercial cheese stick products (P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, and P8). These products were obtained from a food manufacturer and stored in a freezer until evaluation. The samples were fried according to the manufacturers' cooking instructions before serving.

2008, Jean-François Meullenet, Rui Xiong, Christopher J. Findlay, Multivariate and Probabilistic Analyses of Sensory Science Problems, →ISBN:

I dipped a cheese stick into some sauce and tried not to cuss him out for ruining my amusing thoughts about little demon creatures.

2015, Anna Todd, After Ever Happy, →ISBN, page 446:

An elongated piece of battered or breaded cheese, such as a mozzarella stick.


head chef

The main chef in a restaurant, in charge of the kitchen and of the team of other chefs.


horseradish sauce

horseradish sauce (countable and uncountable, plural horseradish sauces)


main dish

Coordinate term: side dish


Rocky Mountain Kool-Aid

Rocky Mountain Kool-Aid (plural Rocky Mountain Kool-Aids)

The beer was originally only available in Colorado.


crab fork

A very small fork for extracting flesh from a crab or lobster.


BMC

(US, beer) Initialism of Budweiser, Miller, Coors. (big three American macrobreweries)


latte art

latte art (usually uncountable, plural latte arts)

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An image formed by pouring hot milk on the surface of a cup of coffee.


groundbait

groundbait (countable and uncountable, plural groundbaits)

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Fishing bait that is cast into the water, rather than secured to a hook, in order to attract fish to the fishing area - it is often used in coarse fishing.


stick to someone's ribs

en-verb

stick to someone's ribs (third-person singular simple present sticks to someone's ribs, present participle sticking to someone's ribs, simple past and past participle stuck to someone's ribs)

sticks to someone's ribs (present singular third-person)
sticking to someone's ribs (participle present)
stuck to someone's ribs (participle past)
stuck to someone's ribs (past)

When I came to the cold lunch and fried breakfast poor Evans' face fell; he evidently doesn't much believe in the virtue of food, unless it is in the form of a hoosh and has some chance of sticking to one's ribs.

1905, Robert F. Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume 2 (2014 Cambridge University Press edition), p. 274 (Google books)

Those two mincemeat tarts hadn't stuck to his ribs the way he'd thought they would.

1990, Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn (2012 Open Road edition), ch. 12 (Google preview)

I've been trying to find a way to incorporate more vegetarian dishes into my everyday rotation, and to be honest, it's been hard to find something hearty and that sticks to my ribs, that's also meat free.

2017 April 14, Ashley Edds, “7 Tasty Slow-Cooker Vegetarian Dinners Even Meat Eaters Will Love”, in women.com, retrieved 2017-04-27:

(idiomatic, of food) To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency.


granola bar

From granola + bar. Attested since the late twentieth century.

John Herrick, chairman of the board of General Mills Canada Ltd. which makes Nature Valley Granola Bars, said you need a little sugar for energy. If you took the sugar out of everything, life would be very dull.

1978 July 29, “Nutritionists say granola bars too high in sugar to be snacks”, in The Globe and Mail, →ISSN, page 12:

If your mental image of a granola bar is a dry, crunchy, relatively tasteless blend of rolled oats and a few raisins, you haven't stopped by the ever-expanding snack bar section lately.

1985 July 1, Martin Friedman, “New Product Watch”, in Adweek, page 22:

Let's compare a candy bar and a granola bar. A chocolate bar with almonds (1 1/2-ounce size) has 18 grams of sugar, and a granola bar has 6 grams of sugar.

2004, Naomi Neufeld, KidShape: A Practical Prescription for Raising Healthy, Fit Children, page 94:

Granola bars, breakfast bars and cereal bars, which are referred to collectively as "snack bars," are part of a food category that's grown 5 per cent a year since 2005 and is worth an estimated $720-million in Canada

2010 December 12, Carly Weeks, “Granola bars: A healthy snack or dressed-up junk food?”, in The Globe and Mail:

A confection consisting of granola and sweeteners pressed and baked into a bar shape.

myslipatukka

confection of granola and sweetener pressed into a bar shape


forty-rod

From forty + rod, a measure of distance, suggesting whiskey so strong it can affect one from 200 meters away.

[…]he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time

1885, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), Chapter V:

cheap, strong whiskey or similar alcoholic beverage


Dunlop

en-proper noun

Dunlop (countable and uncountable, plural Dunlops)

A village in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4149).


Dunlop

(uncountable) A mild cheese from Dunlop in East Ayrshire, Scotland.


thickshake

He looked up at Gestas and said, “Get me a Carvel vanilla thickshake.” “Sir?” “You heard me. A vanilla thickshake. And not one of those watered down things they pass off in the cafeteria. I want the real thing.”

2009, George R. Hopkins, Collateral Consequences: A Mystery/Suspense Novel, →ISBN:

Again—we stopped to get something to eat. I got a thickshake and some hot chips but only managed to eat one chip and was lucky if I took a sip of the thickshake —I was beginning to feel worse and worse.

2011, Lisa Wisemantel, Smiling on the Inside, →ISBN:

All Johnny really had on his schedule was a plan to order a thickshake, which to him represented the ultimate American experience.

2013, Jeff Apter, Johnny O'Keefe: Rocker. Legend. Wild One, →ISBN, page 1923:

The idea was to win her heart by getting really close and really pointedly ignoring her, only this time – and here was the genius of it – at McDonalds.^([sic]) I ordered a thickshake and some fries and as I walked nonchalantly past her table, my attention fixed on a Hamburgler^([sic]) poster in the middle distance, a tiny rift opened in the space-time continuum.

2002, Craig Bolland, I Knit Water, →ISBN, page 132:

Edek sipped his chocolate thickshake. She and Edek were the oldest people in McDonald's.

(Australia, New Zealand) A beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with other flavorings as well.


butterbrot

Borrowed from German Butterbrot (literally “butter bread”).


tapsilog

(Philippines) a meal of tapa with fried rice and fried egg


tosilog

(Philippines) a meal of tocino with fried rice and fried egg


hamsilog

(Philippines) a meal of ham with fried rice and fried egg


longsilog

(Philippines) a meal of longaniza pork sausage with fried rice and fried egg


bangsilog

(Philippines) a meal of jerked bangus (daing) fish with fried rice and fried egg


kilishi

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A form of jerky from Hausaland, made from the dried meat of cows, sheep or goats, seasoned, coated in peanut paste, and then roasted.


zubrowka

en-noun

zubrowka (countable and uncountable, plural zubrowkas)

Borrowed from Polish żubrówka (“bison grass”), from żubr (“European bison”) + ówka.

A dry straw-colored liqueur of vodka flavored with herbs, originally from Poland.


prime cut

Does he follow his nature, and go into the prime cut like a man; or does he put it away from him and follow the ways of the old prophet out in the desert of Arabia, and content himself with a dinner upon air with a drink of water to wash it down?

1884, George T. Lowth, The Immortal Schoolmaster, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 34:

My husband brings his work home. Had he been a butcher, it might have been a prime cut of steak; a mason, a block of limestone. […] But my husband is an oncologist, so he brings home the dead and dying.

2009, Sayantani DasGupta, “The Doctor’s Wife”, in Mark D. Tyler-Lloyd, editor, The Real Life of an Internist (Kaplan Voices: Doctors), New York, N.Y.: Kaplan Publishing, →ISBN:

Not sure these old bones of mine are up to slaying any dragons, but if it's a prime cut of meat you want, I'm your guy.

2013, Gail Oust, chapter 5, in Rosemary and Crime: A Spice Shop Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books; Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN:

(cooking) A top-quality serving of meat.

I got no idea who he thinks is listening to us, but I register that this is prime cut information.

2004, Sidney Offit, “No Time for Senior’s”, in Tim McLoughlin, editor, Brooklyn Noir, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Akashic Books, →ISBN:

He graduated magna cum laude from ASU in three years, then promptly earned his MBA from the Wharton School. Corporate recruiters saw him as prime cut.

2011, John Lutz, chapter 39, in Fear the Night, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, →ISBN:

The new kid was covered in mud, the thin drizzle doing nothing to clean him off, but it was clear he was a prime cut.

2013, John Haggerty, “The Meat Forest”, in John [Gregory] Betancourt et al., editors, The Haunts & Horrors Megapack, [Rockville, Md.]: Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 161:

[…] with Rolling Stone's John Milward hailing the band's [Lynyrd Skynyrd's] "Southern blues-rock diced with the sharp blade of British hard rock" as "a prime cut of guitar rock" and Ronnie's "world-weary" vocals "barroom-tough on rockers, properly vulnerable on … 'Searching' and 'The Needle and the Spoon'."

2015, Mark Ribowsky, Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 189:

(by extension) Something that represents the best quality in its class.


Portuguese sauce

In Macanese cuisine, a sauce made from curry powder and coconut milk.


Steinberger

Steinberger (countable and uncountable, plural Steinbergers)

A white wine from Steinberg, Kloster Eberbach.


suspended coffee

suspended coffee (countable and uncountable, plural suspended coffees)

A cup of coffee that a customer pays for in a café, but which is not actually dispensed at the time; rather, any disadvantaged person is later able to claim it without having to pay.


hachapuri

hachapuri (countable and uncountable, plural hachapuris)

Another delicious Georgian dish was Hachapuri. This is a kind of flat bread with soft cheese and butter in the middle, more butter melted all over the top. There are different kinds of Hachapuri, reflecting the different areas, but all of it is absolutely fantastic. People eat it as a matter of course at almost every meal.

2014 February 25, Janice N. Mau, “‘Gamarjoba’, Georgia.’”, in Samovars and Shashlik: Gems of an Overseas Adventure, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 120:


hatchapuri

hatchapuri (countable and uncountable, plural hatchapuris)

On the breakfast table I can see the remains of: sturgeon, caviare (pink and black), blinies, cottage cheese and two other cheeses, buckwheat, hatchapuri—a bread cheese—and sour cream, hashi (stew), radishes and spring onions […]

1977, The New Review, volume 4, London: New Review Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

After Varadzia had served Svobodova with sturgeon and the local delicacy, a hatchapuri—a sort of paratha stuffed with cheese—washed down with a glass of the Lomnja red wine, he sat down and took a pipe with the stranger.

1983, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 7, New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 128:


7 Up

7 Up (countable and uncountable, plural 7 Ups)

Brand name of the 1930s, of uncertain origin. Some theories include:
* The product of 7 ingredients: sugar, carbonated water, essence of lemon and lime oils, citric acid, sodium citrate, and lithium citrate; and “Up” referring to the lithium mood lift.
* Originally sold in 7-ounce bottles, unlike most other soft drinks (6oz).
* Its inventor, Charles Leiper Grigg, saw cattle branded with a similar mark and drew inspiration from it.
* Grigg thought of it while rooting for sevens during a game of craps.
* That its pH is over 7, which is false—actually 3.79.
* A coded reference to the lithium it originally contained, which has an atomic weight of around 7.

(trademark) A lemon-lime-flavored, non-caffeinated soft drink.


tiropita

Borrowed from Greek τυρόπιτα (tyrópita, “cheese pie”).

A Greek pastry with layers of buttered phyllo, filled with a cheese-egg mixture.

τυρόπιτα

a pastry filed with a cheese-egg mixture


unegged

Put a layer of grated ham or tongue on the unegged side of 1 piece, and lay on that the unegged side of another, joining the 2 pieces, and brown these sandwiches in the oven. Serve on spinach with roast fowl.

1909, Lady Charlotte Coltman Clark, Catherine Frances Frere, The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie, page 210:


Caithness

The placename is of Pictish origin, named after a tribe called the Catti, with the common Old Norse suffix -ness (“headland”). The tribe name is of uncertain origin, but compare *katus (“battle”).

A historical county in the far north of Scotland, which was abolished and merged into Highland Region in 1975, which became the Highland council area in 1996.


hei hei salt

A form of chicken salt containing cumin, turmeric and paprika.


reeb

reeb (countable and uncountable, plural reebs)

Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."

1851, Henry Mayhew, “Habits and Amusements of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 11:

It is still in considerable vogue, and the enquirer will at times hear some good examples—though the chances are a hundred to one against his ever understanding them. A couple which were interpreted for my benefit were: "Hi, yob, kool that enif elrig with the nael ekom. Sap her a top of reeb and a tib of occobat," and "Islema, ogda the opperca." After the reader has sufficiently puzzled over these hieroglyphics he or she may be glad to learnt hat the quotations respectively mean: "Hi, boy, look at that fine girl with the lean moke. Pass her a pot of beer and a bit of tobacco," and "Misle, dog the copper!"

1912 May 11, A. J. Heighway, “Whitechapel”, in The Evening Post (New Zealand), volume LXXXIII, number 112, page 9:


bhurji

Borrowed from Punjabi ਭੁਰਜੀ (bhurjī), ultimately from Sanskrit भृज्जति (bhṛjjati, “roasts, fries”). Related to fry and bhujia.

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eggs bhurji


Sprite

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In the early 1940s, Coca-Cola started running an advertising campaign featuring an elf-like figure called “Sprite Boy” (see sprite (“elf”)). The name originated from the previous Coca-Cola campaign, but it was a focus group that ultimately chose the name “Sprite”.

A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.


camote fries

A Philippine snack made by coating deep-fried strips of sweet potato in caramelized brown sugar.


moka pot

Probably from Italian moka, from Arabic المُخَا (al-muḵā, “Mocha (a port city known for coffee)”) + pot.

A coffeemaker that produces coffee by passing boiling water pressurized by steam through ground coffee, traditionally made of aluminium.


lehsuni

(India, cooking) Alternative form of lasoon


calandria

Borrowed from Spanish calandria (“lark (bird); calander”), from Vulgar Latin *calandria, from Ancient Greek χαράδριος (kharádrios). First attested in 1886 in the sugar industry.

bor+

(brewing) A heating element within a brew kettle.


debrecziner

From German Debrecziner; from Hungarian Debrecen.

Synonym of debrecener (A Hungarian sausage)


lemang

A traditional Asian food made of glutinous rice, coconut milk and salt, cooked in a hollow bamboo stick lined with banana leaves to prevent sticking.


Montreal steak spice

en-noun

Montreal steak spice (usually uncountable, plural Montreal steak spices)

Montreal smoked meat
Montreal smoked meat

(cooking) A spice mix; the traditional spices used to rub steaks and flavour grilled meats in Central Canada and the U.S. Northeast, New England, originating from late 19th century and early 20th century Jewish steakhouses and delis of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of Eastern European traditions, based on a traditional pickling dry-rub mix used in preparing Montreal smoked meat. Now also used as a condiment.


Montreal seasoning

Montreal seasoning (usually uncountable, plural Montreal seasonings)

Montreal steak spice
Montreal steak spice#English

(cooking) Synonym of Montreal steak spice


jewel salad

jewel salad (countable and uncountable, plural jewel salads)

A salad made with brightly-coloured fruits or vegetables.


chevda

Probably borrowed from Marathi चिवडा (civḍā), Gujarati ચેવડો (cevḍo).

(India) A kind of snack mix generally consisting of spicy ingredients.


smashed potatoes

From smash + potato from the apparentness of it being the result a potato being violently smashed, leaving mashed bits and chunks.

chunky mashed potatoes; mashed potatoes with chunks of potatoes in it


otak-otak

otak-otak (countable and uncountable, plural otak-otaks)

Borrowed from Malay otak-otak, plural of otak (“brain”), from the resemblance in appearance.

(Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) Grilled fish cake wrapped inside a banana leaf; a popular snack food in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore.


taste-test

en-verb

taste-test (third-person singular simple present taste-tests, present participle taste-testing, simple past and past participle taste-tested)

taste-tests (present singular third-person)
taste-testing (participle present)
taste-tested (participle past)
taste-tested (past)

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Make sure to taste-test the food before serving.

To sample a food or drink in order to check its flavor.

provsmaka

to sample a food or drink in order to check its flavor


taste-test

conduct a series of taste-tests in schools nation-wide


Zhangcha duck

Partial calque from Chinese 樟茶鴨／樟茶鸭 (zhāngcháyā, “camphor-tea duck”).

zh-l

A Sichuan dish of marinated duck, smoked over tea leaves and camphor twigs.


Depression cake

en-noun

Depression cake (countable and uncountable, plural Depression cakes)

A kind of cake, common during the Depression and still baked today, that used little or no milk, butter, eggs, and sometimes sugar (as these were expensive or unobtainable).


Zinger

A name used for several KFC products (e.g Zinger Box).


draniki

Borrowed from Belarusian дранікі (draniki).


kalduny

stuffed dumplings made of unleavened dough in various Eastern European cuisines


liangpi

zh-l

涼皮／凉皮 (liángpí)

A noodle-like Chinese dish made from wheat or rice flour originating from the cuisine of Shaanxi province.


quarter water

From the cost (a quarter) and the main ingredient (water).

A bell rings and Pavlov's law is confirmed every time; the ice cream truck comes up the street and kids start flying from their houses; and we get in line to make our selection of pop sickles, quarter waters, push up pops, and rockets.

2008, Ellington Rudi Robinson, Underneath the Music, →ISBN, page 3:

Well, there's water, and then there's quarter-waters. Ghetto Gatorade.

When I was a kid, quarter water was the drink of choice because it only cost a quarter.

2011, Maurice Patterson, Inner-city Diet, →ISBN, page 30:

I remember those times. The corner bodega shops with the quarter waters and yellow lemon drops and the now and later, Do you remember then?

2013, Yanatha Desouvre, Walk Through This Journey: Volume One, →ISBN:

A city block, chock full of empty heroin bags, used condoms, dirty diapers and expired bus passes. Sewer grates, straining under the weight of quarter water bottles and wrappers from cheap snacks and cakes.

2014, Miss Sixx, 15th & East Capitol, →ISBN, page 69:

(US) A combination of water, food coloring, and sugar sold as a drink in small plastic bottles for 25 cents.


Idiazabal cheese

A cheese made from sheep milk, from the Basque Country in Spain.


satsebeli

Borrowed from Georgian საწებელი (sac̣ebeli).

A spicy Georgian sauce made with tomato paste, cilantro, garlic, vinegar, pepper, and spices.


peaty monster

A whisky having a very strong peaty flavour and aroma.


pickling lime

(cooking) calcium hydroxide or its solution in water, limewater


victualling house

en-noun

victualling house (plural victualling houses)

[…] when Antiochus lay feasting at Chalcis after his marriage, and his souldiors betooke themselues to Riot, as it had beene in a time of great security: a good man of war might haue cut all their throates, euen as they were tipling in their victualing houses […]

1617, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Book 5, Chapter 5, Section 8, p. 695:

1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, Facsimile reproduction, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, Part 2, p. 183,
Nor was there on all this Ground, so much as one Inn or Victualling-House, therein to refresh the feebler sort.

This Sykes invited him to go to one Redgate’s, a Victualling-house near the Seven Dials, to play at Skettles […]

1724, Daniel Defoe, The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard, pages 6–7:

1824, Laws of Harvard College, for the Use of Students, Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, Chapter VI. Misdemeanors and criminal offences, p. 15,
(2.) Making or being present at any festive entertainment […] or going into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge for the purpose of eating or drinking.

(obsolete, historical) A commercial establishment at which food and beverages are served; tavern; inn.


bánh xèo

Vietnamese fried pancake made of rice flour, water, and turmeric powder, stuffed with slivers of fatty pork, shrimp, diced green onion, and bean sprouts.


Hermitage

A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5073).

Mendocino County
Mendocino County#English

A former settlement in Mendocino County, California, United States.

Pointe Coupee Parish
Pointe Coupee Parish#English

A former community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States.

A small city, the county seat of Hickory County, Missouri, United States.


beerwort

From Middle English berwort, berwurt, equivalent to beer + wort. Cognate with Dutch bierwort (“beerwort”), German Bierwürze (“beerwort”).

(brewing) Wort prepared by the infusion of malt with water, intended to be converted into beer.


pressed duck

In Paris, one of the oldest and most picturesque of the master restaurateurs is certainly Frédéric Delair, now nearly seventy years of age. At his remarkable little restaurant, La Tour d'Argent, at 15 Quai de la Tournelle, he still serves his renowned pressed duck and the four or five other dishes which have made his name familiar all over the world.

1907, The Scrap Book, volume 4, page 573:

In Paris there is a dingy café 'way down in the Latin Quarter run by an old man by the name of Frederick, who serves pressed duck. Americans flock to Frederick's at $4.00 a plate.

1909 January 20, “The fame of a dish”, in Printers' Ink, page 93:

As students we were shown the correct pressed duck presentation during a tableside class by Monsieur Bernard, the Escoffier Room maître d'.

2013, Sanford D'Amato, Good Stock: Life on a Low Simmer:

A traditional French dish consisting of various parts of a duck served in a sauce of its blood and bone marrow, which are extracted by way of a press.


Texas tea

Texas tea (countable and uncountable, plural Texas teas)

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It gave Mike time to make me some Texas tea.” Martin looked puzzled. “I thought Texas tea was slang for oil.” “It may be. But to Texans like Mike and me, it merely means well-brewed, properly iced tea.”

2005, JoAnna Carl, The Chocolate Mouse Trap: A Chocoholic Mystery, →ISBN:

Kirby paused for a sip of Texas tea, then went on.

2015, Sarah Ockler, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, →ISBN, page 166:


almond paste

A type of confection made from ground almonds and sugar in equal quantities, bound with some syrup or other similar substance in order to form a paste.

مَعْجُون لَوْز

paste made from ground almonds and sugar in equal quantities


breadcrust

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chocolate concrete

A crunchy chocolate dessert made with cocoa, flour and sugar, associated with traditional British school dinners.


zéphire

From French zéphire. So named because the dish was considered light like a zephyr breeze or cloth. Compare Russian зефи́р (zefír, “marshmallow”), another light food named for the breeze. Doublet of zefir, Zephyr, zephyr, and Zephyrus.

doublet

Coordinate term: quenelle

For quotations using this term, see Citations:zéphires.

(cooking, now uncommon) A small dish of forcemeat, typically cooked in a mold and served with a rich sauce.


textured vegetable protein

en-noun

textured vegetable protein (uncountable)

A meat analog derived from soy, a by-product of extracting soybean oil, in the form of small chunks that can be reconstituted with water and cooked.


six-way

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The sense referring to a serving of Cincinnati chili was coined in the 1920s by Tom and John Kiradjieff, Slavic-Macedonian immigrants to Cincinnati, for their Empress Chili chain.

(Cincinnati) A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti, cheese, onions, beans, and either jalapeños or chopped garlic.


underprove

en-verb

underprove (third-person singular simple present underproves, present participle underproving, simple past and past participle underproved)

underproves (present singular third-person)
underproving (participle present)
underproved (participle past)
underproved (past)

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Japanese pizza

en-noun

Japanese pizza (countable and uncountable, plural Japanese pizzas)

Unique on the menu is Okonomiyaki, or Japanese Pizza, fried thin breading with teriyaki or curry topping.

1996, A. Magazine: The Asian American Quarterly, page 58:

One evening she took him to an okonomiyaki place for the inexpensive savory pancakes, known as Japanese pizza.

2012, William Hjortsberg, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan:

Michael tried Japanese pizza, which he thought was tasty but slightly expensive.

2015, Junko Ogawa, Fumitsugu Enokida, Colloquial Japanese: The Complete Course for Beginners:


gin and French

gin and French (plural gin and Frenches or gins and French or gins and Frenches)

gin and Frenches (plural)
gins and French (plural)
gins and Frenches (plural)

From the use of French as a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as being usually drier than Italian vermouth.

Tearle replied that gin-and-French and virginian cigarettes would do for him.

1930, Ethel Mannin, Confessions & Impressions, page 177:


salt beef

salt beef (countable and uncountable, plural salt beefs)

From Middle English salt bef, salt beof, equivalent to salt + beef. Compare salt pork.


triple triple

(Canada, informal) A coffee with the equivalent of three creamers and three packets of sugar.


zythophile

From Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos, “barley beer”) + -phile.

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Downtown Riverhead is the ultimate watering hole for zythophiles, those who particularly enjoy a cold pint, with several craft breweries within walking distance of each other (or should we say, stumbling distance?).

2019 May 1, Nicole Teitler, “North Fork Brewing Stokes Craft Beer Trend: Converting former firehouse to a house of hops”, in The Independent, volume 26, number 33, East Hampton, NY, page B15:


kek lapis

Borrowed from Malay kek lapis (literally “layered cake”).

bor

A layered cake, traditionally served in Sarawak, Malaysia on special occasions.


poor man's cake

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water sandwich

en-noun

water sandwich (plural water sandwiches)

A Depression-era snack consisting of a piece of bread soaked in lard or water.


toast sandwich

toast sandwich (plural toast sandwiches)

An old-fashioned snack consisting of a slice of toasted bread between two untoasted slices.


Moscow mule

A cocktail made with vodka, ginger beer, and lime juice.


scallion pancake

scallion pancake (plural scallion pancakes)

A direct translation of the words "蔥油餅／葱油饼 (cōngyóubǐng)" in English

zh-l

蔥油餅／葱油饼 (cōngyóubǐng)

(US) A Chinese savory, unleavened pancake folded with oil and green scallions.

蔥油餅 /葱油饼

a savory pancake folded with oil and green scallions


say when

en-verb

say when (third-person singular simple present says when, present participle saying when, simple past and past participle said when)

says when (present singular third-person)
saying when (participle present)
said when (participle past)
said when (past)

Say when! ― When! Thanks.

The publican placed a whisky bottle and three glasses on the ledge and Grierson poured, with the courtesy of, "Say when," to the trooper, who was forced to exclaim, "Hold on!" in protest at a tumbler three-quarters full of whisky.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 161:

(idiomatic) An imperative form used to request that the interlocutor indicate when one should stop doing something, esp. pouring a drink, because one has reached a sufficient amount.

قول بس

imperative to request when the pouring of a drink should stop


Eskimo Pie

(trademark) A brand of chocolate covered vanilla ice cream on a stick.


girlmeat

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EDGAR. (Moving blindly, as if playing a game.) Where's my captive Princess? The Big Bad Wolf is hungry, he wants a little girl for his supper.[…]The pot's on the fire, the water's in the pot, the salt's in the water, and I want some nice juicy girlmeat.

1970, James Saunders, A Scent of Flowers, act I, page 16:

[…]the good Reverend was dressed only in a pair of black church boots, and then he was running from the tent, from the crowd, a pretty young girl running out the tent and after, a step or two behind him, without even the black church boots, and then the bluegreen alligator, jaws snapping at high-stepping heels, then the awestruck congregation giving chase[…]the alligator hungry for the tang of girlmeat, or so it seemed, the girl just running for her life[…]

2010, Peter Damian Bellis, The Conjure Man, page 87:

Girlmeat is the best meat in the world, it's delicious and nutritious and girls just have been made to be processed into meat.

2011 November 27, Curt, “Butcher is looking for North African girlmeat! Will pay $50 per pound of living girl-flesh!”, in soc.culture.maghreb (Usenet):


sachima

Borrowed from Manchu ᠰᠠᠴᡳᠮᠠ (sacima, “a kind of sweet snack”).

bor

A Chinese snack of fried batter bound together with a stiff sugar syrup, similar in structure to the Rice Krispie square.


on the dry

I bumped into an old mate of mine, Bill, the other day whom I was banged up with in 1972 in St Bernard's Hospital. He's on the dry now but he told me he has had several lapses since we left muttering that it was all going to be different tomorrow.

1985 August 24, Jeffrey Bernard, “Low life: High and dry”, in The Spectator, page 34:

Then, maybe two weeks before cameras rolled, he'd put the blinkers on again and totally focus on it, and that included staying off the booze. 'I'm on the dry,' he'd announce.

2013, Robert Sellers, “A Date with Cronenburg”, in What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, page 175:

Jessie J hasn't had an alcoholic drink since October 15, 2012. The 'Wild' singer can remember the exact date she last touched booze and claims she only ever drinks on very special occasions because alcohol leaves her lethargic and she worries it might ruin her career.

2013 July 13, “Jessie J on the dry since last October”, in Irish Examiner:

(idiomatic, informal, British, Ireland) temporarily refraining from drinking alcohol


lupper

en-noun

lupper (countable and uncountable, plural luppers)

Working a 12:30 pm. to 9:00 pm. work shift raises the question: How can you tell the difference between the meals “linner” and “lupper?” Well, “linner” is closer to the normal lunch hour, and “lupper” is closer to supper.

2004, Rolland E. Stroup, Distilled Lincoln Anecdotes:

“It's not lunch time or dinner time,” she said. It was almost four o'clock. “Have you eaten lunch?” She shook her head no. “Do you have plans for dinner?” Again. No. “Good. We'll have lupper.” “Lupper?” “Lunch and supper. […]

2012, Naomi Gayle, Landscapes in August, page 168:

All I wanted to do was get out of my wet clothes, catch a little lupper and get some much-needed rest. In case you don't know what lupper is, it's the same thing as brunch only later in the day. Lunch and supper combined equals lupper.

2012, R. M. Singhose, Living the Dream: Harley Woman: Tales from the Open Road, page 200:

(slang, humorous) A meal or snack eaten between the normal times for lunch and supper.


fenalår

A Norwegian salted, dried, and cured leg of lamb


apizza

apizza (countable and uncountable, plural apizzas)

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Borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (“pizza”), with the feminine definite article 'a.

NICK’S New Haven Style Brick Oven APIZZA “Always “Done Well” / Reopening September 15th / Beer & Wine Bar / APIZZAS / CALZONES / GRINDERS / SALADS

2010 September 3, Palm Beach Sun, page 10:

Authentic apizzas are larger and more irregularly shaped than their New York relatives, and have deeply charred crusts, a result of traditional coal burning ovens.

2014 April 8, “Dude Food: Pizza: The hungry man’s go-to”, in The Black & White, volume 52, number 8, Bethesda, Md.: Walt Whitman High School, page 12:

And don’t sleep through the house-made pastas: pillowy ricotta gnocchi, tucked into a lemony mascarpone and artichoke sauce, are good enough to steal the apizzas’ show.

2016, The Michelin Guide: San Francisco, Bay Area & Wine Country, Michelin, →ISBN, page 256:

Pepe’s was founded by Frank Pepe in 1925 and they have made millions of their signature apizzas, topped with five ingredients: romano cheese, garlic, olive oil, parsley and clams.

2020, Richard Taylor, James Watt, Martin Dickie, Brewdog: Craft Beer for the Geeks, Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, page 162:

Saucy Brew Works brews fresh local coffee and Ohio craft beer, served best with their award-winning apizzas.

She ordered a New Haven classic, which also happens to be one of the most popular apizzas at Fantini’s — the white clam pizza.

2022 April, Gabby Gregory, “The Place to Be: Fantini’s New Haven Style Apizza”, in Palm City Living, volume 538, page 28:

The coal-fired apizzas are baked at a super-hot 600 degrees Fahrenheit for a few minutes, yielding a pie with charred and blistered crust and cheese like molten lava.

2022 October 11, Phillip Valys, “When’s Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana opening at Plantation Walk?”, in Sun Sentinel, archived from the original on 2022-10-11:

A style of pizza endemic to New Haven, Connecticut, incorporating a thin, oblong crust, charring, oregano, and tomato sauce but only a small amount of grated parmesan cheese.


powdered milk

powdered milk (countable and uncountable, plural powdered milks)

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A manufactured dairy product made by evaporating milk to dryness.


kasiri

Alternative form of caxiri (“alcoholic drink made from manioc/cassava”)


gumbo z'herbes

A gumbo dish made with a selection of green vegetables instead of meat.


Louis dressing

Louis dressing (usually uncountable, plural Louis dressings)

A salad dressing based on mayonnaise, with the addition of red chili sauce, minced green onions, and minced green chili peppers, and typically served with seafood.


chazuke

A simple Japanese dish made by pouring green tea, dashi, or hot water over cooked rice.


munkoyo

A mildly fermented drink made from pounded roots mixed with bits of maize, popular in rural Zambia.


Xavier soup

Named after the Roman Catholic missionary Francis Xavier.

An Italian chicken soup with parmesan dumplings.


Journey into Space

From the 1953–1958 BBC Radio science fiction programme Journey into Space.

It had been an enormous Rabelaisian bender which had taken place in the old teaching hospital in Newcastle. Huge quantities of Newcastle Brown ale, an extremely dangerous dark amber fluid known locally as ‘journey into space’ had been consumed.

2006, Peter Tate, SeaSickness, Lulu, page 30:

His other memory had been hearing people talking about ‘a journey into space’ which was how they described their local beer, Newcastle Brown! He didn’t drink, he wasn’t old enough but he remembered the saying. He had even seen the horse drawn drays carrying barrels of beer from pub to pub. ‘Journey into Space’ after an Allibone lecture was something you didn’t forget.

2012, Ralph Hill, Simon's Return, AuthorHouse, page 168:

Bobby taught woodwork at the High School, and was one of the few teachers Stan got on with. He was a Geordie exile, who still referred to Newcastle Brown Ale as "Journey into Space".

2013, Mike Brown, Thrilling, Sweet and Rotten, AuthorHouse, page 27:


salted egg

[ˈsɔ˧.təd˦ ˈʔeɡ̚˦]

Calque from Chinese 鹹蛋／咸蛋 (xiándàn), from salted + egg.

zh-l

鹹蛋／咸蛋 (xiándàn)

Father Semedo and Brother Sebastian, on account of their illness, and by extraordinary favour, were allowed half a hard salted egg each, instead of the herbs.

1857, Evariste Régis Huc, Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet: From the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope to the establishment of the Mantchoo-Tartar dynasty in China, page 243:

Bring to boil and add marinated pork and salted egg.

2009, Teresa M., A Tradition of Soup: Flavors from China's Pearl River Delta, page 136:

The Chinese first developed this way of treating the egg as a preservation measure, but you’ll find salted eggs all over Southeast Asia – in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and elsewhere.

2011, Anita Lo, Charlotte Druckman, Cooking without Borders [unpaginated]:

Using your hands, mix the pork, salted egg white, raw egg, tamari or soy, honey, salt, pepper and cream.

2015, Jennifer Megyesi, The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit, page 170:

A Chinese preserved food consisting of a duck egg that has been soaked in brine or packed in damp, salted charcoal.


badak berendam

Unadapted borrowing from Malay badak berendam (“glutinous rice balls in coconut sauce”), from badak (“rhinoceros”) + berendam (“the act of soaking”).

unadapted borrowing

Dessert includes traditional favourites such as badak berendam, onde-onde, bubur pulut hitam, penget keledek and assorted fruit jellies.

2014, The Sun Daily (Malaysia), Spice up buka puasa at Dorsett Grand Subang:

Local delicacies such as the desserts kuih pepena and badak berendam and the seafood dish masak asam ikan patin (Sutchi catfish cooked in tamarind gravy) were among the food served.

2016 August 7, New Straits Times Online (Malaysia), Plush heritage: A village and the river of life:

“My Commission would like you to try his favourite local dessert called Badak Berendam which literally translates to mean “Rhinos in the Bath,” he smirked.

A popular traditional dessert in Asia; glutinous rice balls loaded with grated coconut that has been cooked with palm sugar or coconut sugar, which is then submerged in coconut sauce.


chicken 65

Supposedly originated at a restaurant in Chennai in 1965.

Anup replied, "I like veg but I don't want to spoil my non-vegetarian menus, especially chicken-65."

2017, Satish Kumar, Campus Plus: Dreams, Friends And Challenges, page 110:

Finally, all of us unanimously agreed to go to the Chinese bandi because the thought of chicken in the chicken 65 […]

(India) An Indo-Chinese dish consisting of deep-fried chicken and red chillies.


fruit rollup

Genericization of the trademark Fruit Roll-Ups, thin sheets of dried pureed fruits that were subsequently rolled up and packaged.


pumpkin spice

en-noun

pumpkin spice (countable and uncountable, plural pumpkin spices)

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So named because it is the mixture of spices traditionally used for pumpkin pie.

A spice blend that includes cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, dried ginger, and cloves.


kuih tart

From kuih + tart, the former word from Malay kuih, from Hokkien 粿 (kóe, “rice cake”).

Certain households prefer to stick to the old and traditional, serving popular nonya cakes and cookies such as kueh tart (pineapple tart), kueh bangkit, kuih Belanda (loveletters), kueh bolu or desserts such as agar-agar (jelly).

1977 February 6, “How can you serve something different from the traditional”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 2017-10-29:

Kueh Tart (Pineapple Tart), Kueh Belanda, Kueh Bangkit, Kueh Bulu(sic), Kueh Lapis, are typical examples.

1978 January 29, “How you can get these goodies done right...”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 2017-10-29:

Kueh tart - 25 cents each.

1984 January 15, “Start the year sweet”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 2017-10-29:

The art of making rich pastries is exemplified in diminutive Singaporean kuih tarts[.]

2011, Andrea Nguyen, Asian Dumplings: Mastering Gyoza, Spring Rolls, Samosas, and More, →ISBN:

(Singapore, Malaysia) A bite-sized buttery, crumbly pastry filled with pineapple jam and served during festivities in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei.


soy boy

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Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油 /酱油 (jiàngyóu)obor.
Japanese 醤油
Japanese そやbor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
English soy boy
From the idea that men who prefer soy to dairy and meat are weak and feminine, and that the naturally occurring phytoestrogen in soy feminizes men. See Soybean (Wikipedia) for more.

etymon

(Internet slang, derogatory) An effeminate or unmasculine man.


vadai

Borrowed from Tamil வடை (vaṭai). Compare cognates Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā) and Malayalam വട (vaṭa).

A type of fritter made from lentils or gram flour.


strapatsada

From Greek στραπατσάδα (strapatsáda), from Venetan strapazzada, from strapazzar (“to treat roughly; to scramble (eggs)”) + -ada (forms verbal nouns). Related to Italian strapazzare.

A Greek dish of tomatoes fried with olive oil, pepper, and beaten eggs.


tirokafteri

A spicy Greek appetiser, consisting of cheese, olive oil, hot peppers and various other ingredients.


bean jar

A cassoulet-type bean dish from Guernsey.


sonofabitch stew

en-noun

sonofabitch stew (usually uncountable, plural sonofabitch stews)

“Hambone, how's for chuck?”
Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.”

1951, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Riders of Judgment, Second, published 2014, →ISBN:

Neither you nor I might like a Son-of-a-Bitch stew made from the organ meats of a milk-fed calf, but the cowboys liked it.

1981 October 21, Linda West Eckhardt, “Texas Eating: Ethnic variety with a frontier spirit”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-11-16:

He can cull choice young animals for the pot and create triumphs of cruel gastronomy, like the baby beef of the gauchos or the Wyoming cattleman's sonofabitch stew based on the organ meats and brains of an unweaned calf.

2002, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, →ISBN:

(Western US) A cowboy dish of the Old West: a stew made with beef and offal.


cowboy coffee

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Coffee made by heating coarse grounds with water in a pot, letting the grounds settle, and pouring off the liquid to drink.


dry pot

dry pot (usually uncountable, plural dry pots)

zh-l

乾鍋／干锅 (gānguō)

A Chinese dish, originally from the Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan provinces, made by wok-frying various ingredients (often a combination of meat and vegetables) and usually served hot on a metal pan, griddle or clay pot.


dry pot

(poker) An empty side pot created when a player is all in and is called by at least two other players, but not raised. If subsequent betting occurs, the money will go to the dry pot.


morning roll

I can't go out to buy morning rolls, those delicious regional specialities, without somebody who remembers the old lady grappling with me on the pavement and stressing the resemblance.

1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 23:

(Scotland) A type of white bread roll popular as part of breakfast.


buldak

Borrowed from Korean 불닭 (buldak), from 불 (bul, “fire”) + 닭 (dak, “fowl, chicken”).

A heavily spiced Korean dish of barbecued chicken.


ginger cordial

A cordial made from ginger, lemon peel, raisins, water, and sometimes spirits.


tanghulu

A traditional Chinese snack of candied fruit.


tea-things

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The teapot, cups, saucers, etc. used when serving tea.


zalabiya

en-noun

zalabiya (usually uncountable, plural zalabiyas)

A form of jalebi, using made of eggs, flour, and milk, cooked in oil.


chibuli

Of unknown origin, but probably derived from or influenced by the brand name Chibuku Shake Shake.

In between downing innumerable chibulies [cold beers] at the above outstanding pub, Messrs Hulley, Geddes and Dennison decided that the showgrounds would be just about adequate accommodation for the baby battalion, so the move was undertaken in early November.

1989, The War Diaries of André Dennison, page 18:

Those brown boot bastards are already in the club sucking up a chibuli," Ormonde growled.

2013, Douglas Hubbard, Jr., Bound for Africa: Cold War Fight Along the Zambezi:

"Sure. Garikayi!" he called. "Bring some fucking cold chibulis here."


dirty ice cream

dirty ice cream (plural dirty ice creams)

(Philippines) local ice cream (often made using coconut milk and sold by street hawkers)


flavor of the road

(Philippines) Local ice cream, often made using coconut milk and sold by street hawkers.


blood tofu

In the bean curd section, we came across a large plastic bin of tofu that had a strange reddish-brown color. "That's blood tofu," said Chairman Wang, explaining that it was bean curd mixed with pig's blood for extra flavor and texture.

2008, Jen Lin-Liu, Serve the People: A Stir-fried Journey Through China, Orlando: Harcourt, →ISBN, page 48:

Patients on a soft-food diet can eat pureed liver or blood tofu made from the blood of pigs, cows, chickens, or ducks.

2010, Bernard Ho, Aleta Lee, Lord Liu Chun's Secrets of Longevity: 600 Years of Proven Cures, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 93:

Blood tofu is made only once a year, at the time of the spring festival. The pig is slaughtered and fresh blood is drawn from it. Most of the meat is preserved with salt. Cooking blood tofu is a long and complicated process.

2011, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Fermented Tofu - A Healthy Nondairy / Vegan Cheese (1610-2011), Lafayette, CA: Soyinfo Center, →ISBN, page 290:

A food product made of coagulated animal blood, used in various Asian cuisines.


en-papillote

Borrowed from French en papillote (literally “in paper”), see papillote.

bor

fish baked en papillote

Suffice it to say that the partridge wings were served en papillote, and the grey squirrels stewed in madeira.

1854, Fayette Robinson, transl., The Physiology of Taste, translation of Physiologie du Goût by Brillat-Savarin, page 114:

(cooking) A method of cooking, where the food is wrapped in a pouch made of culinary parchment paper, and then cooked in an oven.

al cartoccio

term derived from Italian, instead of French


kentjur

Any of a number of flowering plants in the Zingiberaceae family, native to Asia, and having rhizomes used as spices.


white turmeric

Curcuma zedoaria
Curcuma zedoaria#Translingual

zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), an herb with edible rhizomes.


taro cake

en-noun

taro cake (countable and uncountable, plural taro cakes)

zh-l

芋頭糕／芋头糕 (yùtougāo)

Thick slices of taro cake, richly flavored with scallops, mushrooms, shrimp, Chinese bacon, and creamy taro, are pan-fried until golden brown and fragrant.

1999, Grace Young, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 130:

"Or else," Great-Auntie paused for a moment, as if making a hard decision, "I'll buy you a piece of taro cake?"

2009, George A. Fowler, transl., translated by George A Fowler, Riddles of Belief... and Love—A Story, Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Publishing, translation of Grandma's Old Town by Lin Zhe, →ISBN, page 281:

While bakeries and snacks (deep‐fried taro chips and deep‐fried baskets – shredded taro molded into basket shapes and then deep‐fried in china – steamed taro cake, taro batter and bread, cakes and chunks in Hawaii), are gaining interest in research and industry, other products remain at the home scale.

2016, Nicolas Y. Njintang, Joel Scher, Carl M. F. Mbofung, “Other Taro-based Products”, in Harish K. Sharma, Nicolas Y. Njintang, Rekha S. Singhal, Pragati Kaushal, editors, Tropical Roots and Tubers: Production, Processing and Technology, Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 395:

A type of savoury Chinese cake made from flour and taro, often topped with fried shallots and chopped spring onions, served either steamed or pan-fried.


flowering tea

en-noun

flowering tea (usually uncountable, plural flowering teas)

A type of tea originating in China consisting of a bundle of dried tea leaves and one or more dried flowers, made to unfurl decoratively like a blossoming flower when hot water is added to steep it.


red caviar

From red + caviar, from the reddish color of the fish eggs.


disher

A type of scoop with a lever that helps the user dig through hard substances such as ice cream.


ice cream scoop

ice cream scoop (plural ice cream scoops)

A handheld scoop with a lever that helps the user dig through hard substances, most commonly cold ice cream.


dipper well

A small sink with a constant flow of water, used to store utensils used in food preparation and prevent bacterial growth.


Korean-style short ribs

Korean-style short ribs pl (plural only)

From originating with a Korean dish involving short ribs cut in a particular manner, that is different from the usual English-cut.

(cooking) Synonym of flanken short ribs (ribs cut across the bone, instead of along the bone)


rose veal

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Veal from calves reared in a relatively humane way (without veal crates) and having a darker pink colour.


Cab

Cab (countable and uncountable, plural Cabs)

“So you're drinking some Cabs then, right?” she asked. ¶ I told her that indeed I was. […] Cabernet Sauvignon grows just about anywhere; nearly every wine-growing country has its Cab.

2005, Maureen Christian Petrosky, The Wine Club: A Month-by-Month Guide to Learning about Wine with Friends, Des Moines, IA: Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 34:

Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon#English

Abbreviation of Cabernet Sauvignon wine.


choco pie

Borrowed from Korean 초코파이 (chokopai), itself from English choco + pie.

We celebrated birthdays by putting out choco-pie and shrimp crackers and applauding.

2005, Park Min-Na, translated by Sarah Eunkyung Chee, Birth of Resistance, page 118:

A snack consisting of two small round layers of cake covered in chocolate with marshmallow filling.


avolatte

The Aussie cafe has decided to start serving avolattes — yes, avolattes.

2017 May 22, Danielle Valente, “Avocado Lattes Exist And Everyone's Confused”, in Elite Daily:

The troubling trend of serving coffee drinks in hollowed-out produce “cups” has been on the rise since late last month, when a cafe in Melbourne, Australia made headlines for serving lattes in avocado peels (“avolattes”), Newsweek reported.

2017 June 6, Christian Gollayan, “Coffee shops are ruining perfectly good lattes with vegetables”, in New York Post:

Given the United States’ current fetishization of a) superfoods like kale and quinoa, b) Mexican chains like Chipotle and Qdoba, and c) Instagram-worthy products like avolattes and avocado toast, DeLyser does not anticipate this “meteoric rise” in avocado consumption going away anytime soon.

2017 September 22, Sal DeFrancesco, “Guac Costs Extra”, in Harvard Political Review:

(neologism) A latte served in half a hollowed out avocado.


PBJ

PBJ (countable and uncountable, plural PBJs)

peanut butter and jelly
peanut butter and jelly#English


nutmeg geranium

nutmeg geranium (countable and uncountable, plural nutmeg geraniums)

A type of geranium with a fragrance like nutmeg, belonging to the hybrid species Pelargonium × fragrans.


paocai

Paocai that is eaten in two days is obviously more about flavor than preserving.

2011, Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History:


Akhasheni

Borrowed from Georgian ახაშენი (axašeni).

A semi-sweet red wine, produced around Akhasheni.


Khvanchkara

Borrowed from Georgian ხვანჭკარა (xvanč̣ḳara).

A semi-sweet red wine, produced around Khvanchkara.


Mukuzani

Borrowed from Georgian მუკუზანი (muḳuzani).

A dry red wine, produced around Mukuzani.


Kindzmarauli

Borrowed from Georgian ქინძმარაული (kinʒmarauli).

A semi-sweet red wine, produced in Kakheti, Georgia.


Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism (usually uncountable, plural Vegetarianisms)

/vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ənɪzəm/

/vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ənɪzəm/

First English attestation dates to 1848, according to Merriam-Webster. From vegetarian + -ism.

“I must preface this essay by the confession that I am myself a Vegetarian, and that I mean to say all the good I can of the principles of Vegetarianism.”

1886, Henry Stephens Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 7:


Vegetarian

Vegetarian (usually uncountable, plural Vegetarians)

/vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/

/vɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/

/ˌvɛd͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹɪən/

From vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society. (Alternatively, it may derive from vegetus + -arian.)


heather ale

heather ale (countable and uncountable, plural heather ales)

An alcoholic drink traditionally brewed in Scotland from the bells of heather.


namasu

A Japanese dish consisting of thinly sliced uncooked vegetables and meat or seafood, marinated in rice vinegar.


Vin Santo

From Italian vin santo (literally “holy wine”).

bor

A wine made from grapes dried on straw mats and fermented in chestnut barrels, typical of Tuscany; often a dessert wine.


pomtini

And, boy, after the day I've had with my suppliers, those pomtinis are calling my name.

2015, Gemma Halliday, Homicide in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #8, Gemma Halliday Publishing, →ISBN:

And to tell him if I saw her, especially if she ordered a pomtini.

2018, J. D. Robb, Dark in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:


dabeli

A spicy Indian burger made with potatoes, served in a bun with chutney and garnishes.


modak

en-noun

modak (countable and uncountable, plural modaks)

Borrowed from Hindi मोदक (modak) or Marathi मोदक (modak).

She serves the prasad, small cone-shaped bright-yellow modaks that they eat whole after touching to their foreheads to absorb god's blessing.

2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 181:

An Indian sweet consisting of a flour-based outer skin filled with coconut and jaggery.


bummock

For the sense relating to alcohol: from or cognate to Scots bummock (“a brewing of drink; the liquor so brewed”), perhaps from Scots bummie, bummo, a vessel for holding liquid, itself perhaps from Old Norse, compare Icelandic bumba (“drum”).
For the sense relating to ice, perhaps compare how keel can mean either a similar ice structure or a brewer's vat.


cheong fun

/t͡ʃɒŋ ˈfʌn/

A Cantonese form of steamed rice noodle roll.


bazlama

en-noun

bazlama (countable and uncountable, plural bazlamas)

A circular leavened flatbread from Turkey.


dragon's beard candy

Calque from Chinese 龍鬚糖／龙须糖 (lóngxūtáng).

zh-l

龍鬚糖／龙须糖 (lóngxūtáng)

A traditional Chinese sweet similar to halva or cotton candy made from fine white sugar, peanuts, desiccated coconut, white sesame seeds, corn syrup and glutinous rice flour.


carinderia

From Philippine Spanish carindería, where the root, Spanish carí, itself is from Tagalog kari (“curry”). Compare Tagalog karinderya.

(Philippines) A small restaurant or canteen or eatery that serves local (usually Filipino) food


ham salad

en-noun

ham salad (countable and uncountable, plural ham salads)

An Anglo-American salad of ham mixed with chopped vegetables or relishes, bound together with mayonnaise, salad cream, or similar dressing.


jheenga

(India, cooking) Alternative form of jhinga


conkie

conkie (countable and uncountable, plural conkies)

A Caribbean dumpling somewhat resembling the African dish of kenkey.


order up

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"Order up." She snatched another order ticket from the pickup window and shouted to the women in the kitchen. "Three pigs on a bun! Two fries!"

2007, Joe Hilley, Night Rain, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 242:

“Order up!” yelled Carlos from the kitchen.

2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 31:

A number of mechanisms have been devised to notify waitstaff that food is ready in the kitchen, ranging from a cook's shouting “Order up!” to bells, numbered lights on the wall, and, most recently, pagers.

2015, Yahong Zhang, Dennis F. Galletta, Human-computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126:

Especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.


parakari

A traditional Native American alcoholic drink made with fermented cassava.


virgin honey

Honey that flows of itself from the honeycomb.


fairmaid

The low prices which fish have been bringing of late years is a serious matter for those who prosecute the fisheries to look in the face. Has the taste for fairmaids died out with the Italians, or are they being supplied from other countries ?

1887, The Journal of the National Fish Culture Association:

At present the only method applicable to large quantities of fish taken at one time, is that which translates the silvery, savoury little fishes into intensely salt ' fairmaids.' So saturated do these ' fairmaids ' become by the salt or brine in which they have been placed, that English eaters incontinently 'take to drink,' generously suggest their shipment to a Mediterranean port, and endeavor to restore the freshness to their mouths by a meal of red herrings.

1902, Charles James Longman, Longman's Magazine - Volume 40, page 345:

Now the salted pilchards, known as fairmaids, were washed in a kieve, or huge wooden tray having a grating in the bottom through which the fish scales could drop.

1988, John Corin, Fishermen's Conflict: The Story of a Cornish Fishing Port, page 49:

Life is good for Mowzer. Tom feeds her morgy-broth, kedgeree, grilled fairmaids, and star-gazy pie.

2001, Nancy Allen Jurenka, Hobbies Through Children's Books and Activities, →ISBN, page 13:


African nutmeg

African nutmeg (countable and uncountable, plural African nutmegs)

A tree from tropical Africa, Monodora myristica (Annonaceae).


calabash nutmeg

calabash nutmeg (usually uncountable, plural calabash nutmegs)


Flaming Doctor Pepper

Flaming Doctor Pepper (plural Flaming Doctor Peppers)

It is said to taste like the soft drink Dr Pepper, though not using it as an ingredient.

A cocktail made by filling a shot glass with three parts amaretto and one part high-proof liquor — layered, not mixed — then setting it on fire and dropping it into a glass of beer, which extinguishes the flames.


malfouf salad

malfouf salad (countable and uncountable, plural malfouf salads)

From Arabic مَلْفُوف (malfūf, “wrapped around; cabbage roll”).

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A salad made from shredded cabbage, lemon juice, olive oil, and mint.


cocoa powder

en-noun

cocoa powder (usually uncountable, plural cocoa powders)

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(baking, cooking) A powder derived from ground cocoa solids, which is used to make the drink of cocoa, various chocolate products, also used as an ingredient in baking.


vampire taco

(US) A certain type of grilled taco with a crusted tortilla that is usually served at restaurants.


street taco

Every time I went there all I looked for were strippers, street tacos, and the donkey show.

2012, Adam Carolla, Not Taco Bell Material:

(US, slang) A prostitute that walks the streets.


volcano potato

volcano potato (plural volcano potatoes)

(cooking, chiefly in the plural) A bacon-wrapped baked potato with a filling of cheese sauce.


ekiben

Borrowed from Japanese 駅弁(えきべん) (ekiben).

A bento (boxed lunch) sold at a railroad station in Japan.

鐵路便當 /铁路便当

bento sold at a railroad station in Japan


clean meat

clean meat (countable and uncountable, plural clean meats)

Coined by The Good Food Institute in 2016, modeled after clean power, clean eating etc.

coin

In many ways, clean meat is aimed at the least common denominator: meat for the 98 percent of the population that focuses its food choices almost exclusively on price, taste, and convenience.

2018, Kathy Freston, Bruce Friedrich, Clean Protein, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

There is no campaign against clean meat. The few individual voices I've found who are prepared to criticize it are overwhelmingly drowned out by the chorus of positive messages sent out by the clean meat industry.

2020, Jenny Kleeman, Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

Meat that is grown in cell culture instead of being produced by slaughtering animals.


Nebbiolo

en-noun

Nebbiolo (usually uncountable, plural Nebbiolos)

/ˌnɛbɪˈəʊləʊ/

Borrowed from Italian nebbiolo, from nebbia (“fog”), after the grapes' appearance.

A fine red wine made near Alba from these grapes.


coffee milk

coffee milk (countable and uncountable, plural coffee milks)

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A drink made by mixing coffee syrup or coffee extract with milk, popular in the US state of Rhode Island.


champon

From Japanese ちゃんぽん. Doublet of jjamppong.

An Asian noodle dish with pork, seafood, and vegetables in a soup.


scripture cake

(US, Christianity, cooking) A cake whose recipe references lines from the King James Bible as ingredients in encoded form, where the ingredient is a noun found in that verse. The recipe is used to induce biblical learning and rote memorization of this particular edition of the Bible.


mitsuba

From Japanese 三つ葉 (mitsuba) from 三つ (mitsu, “3”) + 葉 (ha, “leaf”).

An East Asian herb grown, especially in Japan, for its flavorful leaves, Cryptotaenia japonica.


food truck

→ Dutch: food truck

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French: → foodtruck, food-truck, food truck, → camion-restaurant (calque)

→ Indonesian: truk makanan (calque)

→ Italian: food truck

→ Japanese: フードトラック (fūdotorakku)

→ Korean: 푸드트럭 (pudeuteureok) (calque)

→ Portuguese: food truck

→ Russian: фудтрак (fudtrak)

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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see food, truck.


mee hoon

(Singapore, Malaysia, cooking) Alternative form of bee hoon


oxflesh

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From Middle English oxeflesch, equivalent to ox + flesh.

The flesh or meat of an ox or similar bovine; beef


fukujinzuke

A Japanese condiment made from vegetables pickled in a soy sauce mixture.


popping candy

Small pieces of hard confectionery that create a popping reaction when they dissolve in the mouth.


winespeak

He thought he was up-to-date on all the latest wine lingo until a longtime wine writer returned his sample request card with a bold, hand-written note on it that stated, “Send me all samples—ABC!” ¶ “ABC” threw my friend for a loop. When he called me, I translated the cryptic phrase—ABC is winespeak for “Anything But Chardonnay.”

1997 March, Ron Loutherback, “Beyond the Label: The ABCs of white wine”, in Orange Coast, volume 23, number 3, page 168:

The jargon used by wine experts and oenologists.


jjim

(cooking) Korean dishes made by steaming or boiling marinated meat or fish


alpha acid

(organic chemistry, brewing) Any of a class of chemical compounds which collectively give hopped beer its characteristic bitter flavor.


baranka

How comical we should have looked on a country road in old England, as we jogged along, almost buried in our cushions, with our eggs in our fingers and the salt in a paper receptacle; and ever and anon stretching out our arms at full length for the baranki, which depended in graceful festoons over our heads!

1859, [Mary Ann Pellew Smith], “Monastery of Verlama—Derjaëvin’s Grave—Bronitzee—[…]”, in Six Years’ Travels in Russia. […], volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 15:

I had bought some barankas—dry Russian biscuits—en route.

1911 February, [Stephen Graham], “The Conversion of Vania: A Sidelight on the Russian National Liquor Monopoly”, in Scientific Temperance Journal, volume XX, number 6, Boston, Mass.: The Scientific Temperance Federation, pages 86–87:

Outside the baker’s shop, beside his printed name—printed name, by the way, often quite unintelligible to himself—is a very lively picture of white loaves and rolls, biscuits, krendels, baranki, cakes.

1911 September 30, Stephen Graham, “The Compensations of Illiteracy”, in The Living Age, seventh series, volume LII (CCLXX overall), number 3508, Boston, Mass.: The Arakelyan Press, page 881, column 1:

Soviet machines used in making Russian national food, such as delicious patties stuffed with meat, fruit or cottage cheese, pelmeni, dumplings, boubliks and barankas, are popular in many countries. Soviet sorts of baranka-type articles, such as sushkas, can be kept for many months without going stale.

1971, Foreign Trade, U.S.S.R. Ministry of Foreign Trade, page 42, columns 1–2:

He had received a food parcel earlier, and so he ate only butter and ring-shaped rolls, baranki, and he quit eating black bread a week before his strike.

1973, Aleksandr I[sayevich] Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P[orter] Whitney, “Tyurzak”, in The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Perennial Library), parts I–II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, part I (The Prison Industry), page 471:

Huge samovars are kept on the boil and there are boubliks and barankas (thick, ring-shaped rolls).

1981, Cynthia Carlile, transl., Suzdal, Progress Publishers, page 115:

We drop our eyes, mumble something inarticulate, add more tea to each other’s glasses, and nibble barankas.

1984, Jackson J[erald] Benson, “The Last Battle”, in The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, chapter XLVII, section I, page 942:

We have a monopoly in Kiev on barankas and diabetic bread roll items.

1984 October, F. M. Agranovich, “First Results of Experiment Reported”, in A. G. Aganbegyan, editor, EKO: Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (USSR Report, Economic Affairs), number 10, Springfield, Va.: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, reproduced by National Technical Information Service, published 1985 February 13, JPRS-UEA-85-006, page 66:

It is quite a job baking boubliks and barankas because the dough has to be well-mixed and thick and totally free of air bubbles.

1990, “Breads”, in Culture and Life, U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), page 47, column 2:

Tea is drunk with various different accompaniments such as rolls, barankas (a dry, ring-shaped roll) or pryaniks (spice cakes), which are specially produced to be taken with tea.

2007, Anna Pavlovskaya, “The Russian Feast”, in CultureShock! A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette: Russia, Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish Editions, published 2008, →ISBN, page 194:

As a child I was often hungry and hunger made me impatient. If my mother was very late with cooking, she gave us a common flour-based snack, bubliki, baranki, sushki, suhariki or pryaniki. It was only in retrospect that I realised that all these traditional Eastern-European snacks were a variation of dried bread. When she handed out one of the treats, she said that they were meant to “kill the worm” (“zamarit chervichka” in Russian). At that time, I interpreted this literally, as I didn’t know that this was an expression that meant “to have a small bite before a proper meal”.

2023, Nanda Milbreta, “How We Killed the Worms”, in Kommunalka Child, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN, part I:

People like sushki and baranki because they are cheap and taste good.

2023, Ольга Наговицына, “Module 3. Tasty treats!”, in Поурочные разработки по английскому языку. 4 класс (к УМК Н. И. Быковой и др. («Spotlight»)), Moscow: Bako, →ISBN, page 85:

A traditional Russian dough ring, somewhat smaller than a bublik, but also thinner and drier.


pomodoro sauce

en-noun

pomodoro sauce (countable and uncountable, plural pomodoro sauces)

From pomodoro + sauce. From Italian pomodoro (“tomato”), this being the Italian version of the sauce.

(cooking) A simple Italian tomato pasta sauce.


meat sauce

(cooking, colloquial) A red tomato-based pasta sauce containing bits of ground beef.


green salad

A salad based on green leafy vegetables, such as lettuce or spinach.


Eskimo pie

Originally a trademark of the Eskimo Pie Corporation for a product patented in 1922, later licensed to other companies or used as a genericized trademark.

In the course of Counselor Halley's interrogations of Frank Costello this morning, the name of Eskimo pie was identified as one of the products made by Dainties Products Corp. […] Mr. Halley, I am sure, used the trademark name Eskimo pie in error simply meaning a chocolate-covered ice-cream product.

1950, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, Investigation of organized crime in interstate commerce, volume 7, page 1718:

Velvety-smooth vanilla ice cream – made from fresh dairy cream – coated with a special blend of mouth-watering imported chocolate. That’s Eskimo Pie, the original ice cream bar.

1958 August 4, “Eskimo Pie [advertisement]”, in LIFE, page 59:

[…]many went Phiscator's Ice Cream parlor for homemade Eskimo pies. Rose and Zora seldom got to hear the concerts as they were busy making the Eskimo pies.

1992, Kathleen Shafer, Baroda, the Story of a Small Place, page 122:

A bar of ice cream covered in chocolate, usually on a stick.


beanwater

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(US, slang, chiefly New England) High spirits.