liqueur
lick-KYOOR
Category: Ingredient, dish
Definition: Spirits that have been flavored with fruit, herbs or other ingredients and sweetened with sugar

grits, hominy grit
Category: Ingredient, Dish
Definition: Dried, coarsely ground corn kernels that are cooked into a porridge-like dish that is a staple of Southern cooking. Hominy grits are grits made from corn kernels that have had the hard-to-digest hulls removed, and are usually what people mean when they refer to grits

guanciale
gwahn-CHAH-lay
Category: Ingredient
Definition: Bacon made from the salt-cured, unsmoked jowls of a pig

malt
Category: Technique, ingredient, dish
Definition: 1. To cause grain to sprout in water and then dry it, making it less sharp and sweeter. 2. A grain that has been malted. 3. A milkshake-like drink made with malted-milk powder

margarine
Category: Ingredient
Definition: A butter substitute made from vegetable oils

mash, sour mash
Category: Ingredient
Definition: A mash is the mix of various grains and water that is heated to create wort, the liquid that eventually becomes alcohol. Sour mash is a mash mixed with older, spent mash, used to create a more consistent product

five-spice powder
Category: Ingredient
Definition: A Chinese blend of star anise, cloves, cinnamon, ground fennel and Sichuan peppers

honey
Category: Ingredient
Definition: The sweet, golden-colored syrup created by honeybees created from the nectar of flowers, and one of the earliest sweeteners known to man

hops
Category: Ingredient
Definition: The flower buds of a plant primarily known as a flavoring agent for beer

mirepoix, mire poix
mihr PWAH
Category: Ingredient
Origin: French
Definition: A mix of finely chopped onions, carrots and celery, used to flavor many foods in French cuisine. In Cajun cooking, a mirepoix refers to a mix of onions, celery and bell peppers