So I decided to cook a matbuha – a north African sauce (which means "cooked salad" in Arabic) made with peppers and tomatoes, garlic and spice, all cooked down to a sticky, sweet and sour jam.
Panna cotta Panna cotta simply means cooked cream.
The name "ricotta" means cooked again, referencing the production method.
He founded the food website Pika Chakula, which means "cook food" in KiSwahili, with a mission to "teach people how to cook".
(Ricotta, which means twice cooked in Italian, evokes the Resurrection, Mr. Anthony said).
In Northern Queensland, clear skies and calm conditions meant coral cooked in clear, still waters, killing off large patches of reef around Lizard Island.
This method of cooking carrots is known as Vichy in French – which essentially means they are cooked in both butter and sugar until tender and beautifully glazed.
Some of the recipes that enlisted me were mired in old language: the word "boil" once meant to cook in liquid; now it refers specifically to a joggle with bubbles at two hundred and twelve degrees; "scallop" meant either a way of cutting or broiling under a hot flame; now it is only a hopping mollusk.
It was Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford in 1636, who first used the verb cook to mean "manipulate," in the pejorative sense of "doctor," but John Stuart Mill, in his classic 1848 "Political Economy," popularized the term in its business sense: "These accounts, even if cooked, exercise some check".
