Cuisine questions

Tapenade is a Provençal name for a dish consisting of puréed or finely-chopped olives, capers, and olive oil. Its name comes from the Provençal word for capers, tapenas. Base ingredients of tapenade are olives and capers. The olives (most commonly black olive) and capers are chopped finely, crushed, or blended.

Soba is the Japanese name for buckwheat. It usually refers to thin noodles made from buckwheat flour, or a combination of buckwheat and wheat flours (Nagano soba). They contrast to thick wheat noodles, called udon. Soba noodles are served either chilled with a dipping sauce, or in hot broth as a noodle soup. They contrast to thick wheat noodles, called udon.

Baklava is a rich, sweet dessert pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup or honey. It is characteristic of the cuisines of the Levant and the broader Middle East, along with the Caucasus, Balkans, Maghreb, and Central Asia.

Sherbets are made from a base of "plain ice" which is water, sugar, egg whites, and lemon juice.

Nachos is a dish from northern Mexico that consists of tortilla chips covered with mince and cheese or a cheese-based sauce often served as a snack. The original nachos consisted of fried corn tortillas covered with melted cheese and sliced jalapeño peppers.

The 'Spanish bird' is a meat dish of Czech Republic cusine where is known as španělský ptáček. The Spanish bird usually consisting of bacon, onions, mustard and pickles wrapped in thinly sliced beef which is then cooked.

A pescatarian, or a pesco-vegetarian, is a vegetarian who also consumes fish and other seafood, but not the flesh of other animals. This is a type of semi-vegetarian diet. Adding seafood to an otherwise vegetarian diet can make it easier to meet your nutrient needs while still maintaining a mainly plant-based diet.

Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which is called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore. The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage life of several years. The method is cheap and effective in suitable climates; the work can be done by the fisherman and family, and the resulting product is easily transported to market.

The Kaiser roll is a typically crusty round bread roll, originally from Austria. It is made from white flour, yeast, malt, water and salt, with the top side usually divided in a symmetric pattern of five segments, separated by curved superficial cuts radiating from the centre outwards or folded in a series of overlapping lobes resembling a crown.

Gluten is the name given to the protein found in some, but not all, grains: Grains containing gluten – wheat (including wheat varieties like spelt, kamut, farro and durum, plus products like bulgar and semolina), barley, rye, triticale and oats. Gluten free grains – corn, millet, rice, sorghum.