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Food & Gastronomy Vocabulary List: 46 Words with Definitions
Ingredients, cooking methods, restaurant orders and how to describe taste. This is the Food & Gastronomy topic pack inside Word Hype — small, focused and very practical.
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| Alcohol | Any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation.A drug that can produce a state of intoxication. | Play ▶ |
| Appetite | A natural physical desire to satisfy a bodily need, especially for food.A strong desire, passion, or enthusiasm for an activity, object, or experience. | Play ▶ |
| Apple | A round fruit with red or green skin.A leading American multinational technology company. | Play ▶ |
| Bakery | A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold. | Play ▶ |
| Banana | A long, curved fruit with a yellow skin.A fruit often eaten by monkeys. | Play ▶ |
| Bitter | Having a sharp taste, not sweet.Feeling angry because you were treated badly. | Play ▶ |
| Bread | Food made of flour, water, and yeast.Money (informal slang). | Play ▶ |
| Butter | An edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use.A fighter who strikes the opponent with his head. | Play ▶ |
| Carrot | Deep orange edible root of the cultivated orange vegetable plant.Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions. | Play ▶ |
| Cheese | A solid food made from milk.A dairy product made in many different flavors. | Play ▶ |
| Cherry | Wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry.Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood. | Play ▶ |
| Chicken | The flesh of a common poultry bird used for food.A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl. | Play ▶ |
| Cocoa | A hot, sweet drink made from chocolate powder and milk.A brown powder used to make chocolate. | Play ▶ |
| Coffee | A hot drink made from roasted beans.The berries or seeds of a tropical shrub. | Play ▶ |
| Cookie | Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term).The cook on a ranch or at a camp. | Play ▶ |
| Delicate | Very fine, exquisite, or subtle in texture, structure, color, or flavor; pleasing to the senses.Requiring great tact, sensitivity, or careful handling, such as a diplomatic issue. | Play ▶ |
| Dining | The act of eating a meal.Eating food in a restaurant. | Play ▶ |
| Dinner | A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).To eat a [word]. | Play ▶ |
| Dishes | Plates and bowls used for eating food.Meals prepared in a special way. | Play ▶ |
| Drink | A single serving of a beverage.The act of [word]ing alcoholic beverages to excess. | Play ▶ |
| Essence | The intrinsic nature, core, or indispensable quality of something, especially abstract, that determines its character.An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant, drug, or food, containing its properties in a high degree. | Play ▶ |
| Flavor | The distinctive taste of a food or drink. | Play ▶ |
| Fridge | A machine that keeps food and drinks cold. | Play ▶ |
| Fruits | Sweet food that grows on trees or plants. | Play ▶ |
| Garlic | A plant with a strong smell and taste used in cooking. | Play ▶ |
| Ginger | A plant root with a strong, hot taste used in cooking. | Play ▶ |
| Grains | Small, hard seeds from plants like wheat or rice. | Play ▶ |
| Honeys | Sweet liquids made by bees, or loved ones. | Play ▶ |
| Hunger | The feeling that you need to eat. | Play ▶ |
| Hungry | Wanting or needing to eat. | Play ▶ |
| Intake | The amount of food or drink you take into your body. | Play ▶ |
| Juices | The liquids that come out of fruit or meat. | Play ▶ |
| Kitchen | A room or area where food is prepared.A set of percussion instruments. | Play ▶ |
| Lunch | A meal eaten in the middle of the day.To eat a midday meal. | Play ▶ |
| Orange | A round fruit with a thick skin and sweet juice.A bright color between red and yellow. | Play ▶ |
| Potato | A round vegetable that grows under the ground.A very common plant used for food around the world. | Play ▶ |
| Recipe | A set of instructions for preparing a dish. | Play ▶ |
| Refined | With impurities or unwanted elements having been removed by processing.Elegant, cultured, and polite in manners, taste, or behavior. | Play ▶ |
| Sugar | A sweet white or brown powder used in food.A sweet tasting carbohydrate. | Play ▶ |
| Sweet | English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912).A food rich in sugar. | Play ▶ |
| Taste | A strong liking.Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values). | Play ▶ |
| Tavern | A building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks. | Play ▶ |
| Thirst | A need or strong desire to drink. | Play ▶ |
| Tomato | A soft red fruit eaten as a vegetable in salads.A plant that grows these red fruits. | Play ▶ |
| Waiter | A person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant).To stay in a place until an expected event happens. | Play ▶ |
| Water | A colorless, transparent, odorless liquid.To pour liquid over a plant. | Play ▶ |