kaffir lime
KA-fer, KAH-fer
Category: Ingredient
Definition: A small, bumpy lime used in Southeast Asian cooking.  Its distinctive double leaves are also often used in cooking

garnish
Category: Ingredient
Definition: Something used to decorate or add optional flavor to a dish

eggs Benedict, eggs Florentine, eggs Neptune, eggs Sardou, etc.
Definition: Eggs Benedict is poached eggs served with Hollandaise atop ham or Canadian bacon and an English muffin. Eggs Florentine is eggs Benedict with spinach instead of ham. Eggs Neptune uses crab meat instead of ham. Eggs Sardou replaces the ham with artichoke bottoms and the muffin with creamed spinach

egg, albumen, egg white, yolk
Category: Ingredient, dish
Definition: One of the most important ingredients in cooking, the common chicken egg is used for myriad culinary uses as well as being a dish in itself. The white portion, or albumen, is the main ingredient in meringue. The inner, yellow portion, or yolk, is a major ingredient in custard. Eggs from many other animals can be used, such as ducks, geese, turtles, ostrich, and quails, but unless specified otherwise, recipes calling for eggs mean chicken eggs, and the size required is usually large

gelatin
Category: Ingredient
Definition: A substance made from animal collagen used to make liquids gel into a solid form

key lime
Category: Ingredient
Definition: A small, greenish-yellow, extremely tart lime most notably used to make Key lime pies

emulsify, emulsion, emulsifier
Category: Technique, dish, ingredient
Definition: An emulsion is a solution that consists of two or more technically unmixable liquids, with one usually suspended in tiny portions within the other. To emulsify is to mix two such liquids fast and hard enough to create such a colloidal mixture. Given time, the two liquids will tend to separate unless specially treated with an agent (aka an emulsifier)

entrecote
ahn-treh-KOHT
Category: Description
Origin: French
Definition: A premium French cut of beef from the ribs of the animal

espresso
ess-PRESS-oh
Category: Dish, ingredient
Origin: Italian
Definition: A form of concentrated coffee that is pressure-brewed

en papillote
uhn pah-pee-YOHT
Category: Technique
Origin: French
Definition: To wrap a dish in tightly folded parchment paper and bake