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Amiens in Somme

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Amish Gold tomato

[English] plural Amish Gold tomatoes

A variety of heirloom tomato, slightly egg-shaped, around 2.5-4 cm (1-1½") long and golden-skinned, which is a cross betweem Amish Paste and Sungold. It produces fruit late season. Indeterminate.

Amish Paste tomato

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An indeterminate variety of Wisconsin heirloom tomato with bright red skin producing ox heart-shaped fruits weighing from 170-500 g (6 oz-1 lb) in late season since the beginning of the 20th Century. They have solid, meaty, mild-flavoured flesh and few seeds but lots of juice. It is excellent either for eating or for making sauce.

amorphous sugar

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One of the definitions of amorphous in the Oxford English Dictionary is "Not composed of crystals in physical structure; uncrystallized, massive". It may be created by spray drying a mixture of corn syrup and sucrose and sieving the mixture to ensure that all the particles are the same size or by melting sucrose and cooling it. The resulting sugar is in the form of a transparent sheet, almost glass-like.

Amos Black blackcurrant

[English] plural Amos Black blackcurrants

A large, juicy variety of blackcurrant.

ampelography

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The science of vine identification.

Amsden June peach

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An early-ripening variety of peach. It is medium-sized with greenish-white skin flushed with red and creamy white flesh with good flavour.

anadama bread

/ah-nah-DAY-mah/
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A yellow-brown yeast bread made from white flour, cornflour (US: corn starch) and molasses. The story is that a fisherman, or a New England farmer, had a lazy wife who refused to bake bread, so he had to make his own. He named the bread after her in the phrase "Anna. Damn her".

anadromous

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Migratory fish. The Oxford English Dictionary defines anadromous as "denoting such [fishes] as have their times of going from the fresh water to the salt, and afterwards returning". So this describes fish which are born in a river, travel to the sea to grow and then return to the same river to spawn. The salmon is a good example. The opposite is catadromous.

Anaheim chile

/AN-ah-highm/
[English] plural Anaheim chiles

Anaheim chillis are long, slender, sweet, mild to hot chillis, suitable for grilling. They are often grilled and then used in salads, or for stuffing with cheese. They are often bright yellowish-green but there is a red variety known as the colourado chilli and a green known as the California Green. Anaheim chillis are rarely dried but are usually used fresh, but are moderately pungent when green, hotter when red. They are native to Kenya but are now grown in the United States.