Food & Drink Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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bake blind v. phr. When recipes tell you to bake blind, they don’t mean cover your eyes. Baking blind is the term for cooking a pie shell—partially or completely—without any filling. You shouldn’t just pop the shell in the oven. It’ll puff or blister. Prick it with a fork, cover it with parchment (preferably) or foil or a smaller pie plate, then weigh the dough down to prevent it from puffing or blistering. Then you remove the weights and either fill the crust or continue to cook it empty until the edges start to brown. [English Food & Drink] [full cite] (Apr. 2, 2007)

baleboosta n. She was, in the truest sense, a baleboosta, a Yiddish term meaning a remarkable cook and “boss of the kitchen.” My father tells stories of her legendary cooking: Rolling out enough dough to cover the kitchen table to make homemade soup noodles, roasting a chicken to perfection, making matzo balls as light as feathers. [Yiddish Food & Drink] [full cite] (Sep. 15, 2006)

bammy n. At breakfast in his Kingston hotel next morning, a somewhat discouraged Satin was browsing through the local newspaper when his eye fell on a small news item: a group of women in the village of Brown’s Hall were struggling to make ends meet selling something called Bammy bread. “I asked the waitress about it and she told me Bammy was a local bread made from the cassava root that people ate years ago. It was once the favourite accompaniment to a number of dishes, including fish, but you hardly saw it anymore.” [English Jamaica Food & Drink] [full cite] (Mar. 23, 2007)

banana-box grocer n. Some reclamation centers then sell these goods to brokers, which hawk them to small salvage stores. The goods are typically contained in boxes that once carried bananas, so these smaller operations are often called banana-box grocers. Some food-industry experts say one drawback to the banana-box stores is that fewer damaged goods are being distributed to food banks, which have reported steep inventory declines over the past year. [English Business Food & Drink] [full cite] (Feb. 25, 2008)

banjo n. Few things are more likely to get you a disapproving lecture from the cholesterol police than the bacon and egg sarnie.…Even the most inexperienced and dreadful cooks can rustle up a banjo, (as the sandwich is sometimes known). [ Language English Subject Food & Drink] [full cite] (Oct. 10, 2005)

bar sugar n. Another name for superfine sugar is bar sugar, so you might be able to find it where bar supplies are sold. [English Food & Drink] [full cite] (Oct. 19, 2006)

bar-chef n. Naran and Jacob are what people call these days “Bar-Chefs.” I just call them bartenders. Whatever they’re called, the show takes these two Australians across the globe to see the sights and mix alcoholic beverages for the locals. [English Food & Drink] [full cite] (Sep. 10, 2007)

BARF n. Some owners take that to mean bones and raw food, better known as the B.A.R.F. diet. But vets who approve are difficult to find—especially if they’ve saved dogs from intestinal obstruction, perforation and peritonitis caused by splintered bone. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Food & Drink Acronym] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2007)

bark n. The pulled pork is a good portion for the price. The meat has what is called, in barbecue jargon, a “bark” on the outside. The bark is the dark coating of dry rub cooked on the surface of the meat. Under the bark is the “smoke ring,” a pink layer where the smoke has penetrated the meat. [English Food & Drink] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2007)

bathtub cheese n. The germ can infect anyone who eats contaminated fresh cheeses sold by street vendors, smuggled across the Mexican border or produced by families who try to make a living selling so-called “bathtub cheese” made in home tubs and backyard troughs. [English Food & Drink] [full cite] (Jun. 5, 2008)

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