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sautéing

(Encyclopedia)sautéing: see cooking.

poaching

(Encyclopedia)poaching: see cooking.

baking

(Encyclopedia)baking: see cooking.

deep frying

(Encyclopedia)deep frying: see cooking.

stir-frying

(Encyclopedia)stir-frying: see cooking.

sous vide

(Encyclopedia)sous vide: see cooking.

kitchen

(Encyclopedia)kitchen, separate room or other space set aside for the cooking or preparation of meals. When cooking first moved indoors, it was performed, with other domestic labors, in the common room, where the f...

Farmer, Fannie Merritt

(Encyclopedia)Farmer, Fannie Merritt, 1857–1915, American cookbook author and teacher and writer on cookery, b. Boston. A paralytic stroke prevented her from attending college, and she turned to cooking, at home ...

Beard, James

(Encyclopedia)Beard, James, 1903–85, American cooking teacher and cookbook author, b. Portland, Oreg. His interest in food was encouraged by his mother, who had been a hotel proprietor. He was a syndicated column...

Child, Julia

(Encyclopedia)Child, Julia, 1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b. Pasadena, Calif., as Julia Carolyn McWilliams. In the early 1940s both she and her husband-to-be, Paul Child...