A breed of pig often bred and raised by traditional methods, resulting in meat with good flavour and fat-to-lean ratio.

A name for Blenheim Orange, a large, crisp, dry, aromatic, yellowish-fleshed, pippin apple with a sweet, slightly tart flavour and dull, yellow skin washed and speckled with orange-red. It is a good-looking eating apple which cooks well and is preferred in tarte tatin as it is soft-textured but does not lose its shape. It was discovered growing along the wall that was the boundary of the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock in Oxfordshire around 1740 by Kempster. It was originally named Kempster's Pippin but the name was changed with the approval of the Duke of Marlborough around 1904. It was awarded the Banksian Medal of the London Horticultural Society in 1822. In the 1920s it became widespread throughout Europe and the United States. In France it is known as Bénédictin. A traditional Christmas, mid- to late-season, apple which is harvested from late September to early October in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between October and December. In the United States it is harvested from October to December.

Sticky or glutinous rice is the short-grained rice popular in South East Asian cuisine and which is served, steamed in bamboo baskets, with almost every meal. It clumps as it cooks and is good tool for eating a meal as it sops up juices nicely, and stays clumped in your fingers. You can fold it round morsels to lift them easily to your mouth.

Asparagus pea. Winged bean. A thin, green, rectangular pod, the fruit of a leguminous plant with a flower similar to a sweet pea, eaten young in the same way as mange-tout. Nothing whatever to do with asparagus bean.

All mullet are called goatfish in the United States. These include 1) grey mullet (US: striped mullet), a silver, shoal-living fish pointed with dark grey, similar to a sea bass, which feeds on seaweed and plankton near the muddy bottom in estuaries and coastal waters, which can effect its flavour. However, a good grey mullet, caught in clean water, has creamy white flesh and good flavour. Varieties are found all over the world. The roe is used for taramasalata, botargo, boutargue and 2) red mullet/surmullet, a high quality fish of a different family from the other (grey) mullets, and which has a far better flavour and lean, firm flesh. Its liver is highly prized. Do not confuse it with gurnard, which has a slightly paler colour. This fish may vary from pinkish-reddish crimson to rosy pink in colour with golden streaks and two long barbels on the chin. Mullus barbatus is the smaller of the two and has yellowish stripes along each side. Mullus surmuletus is more properly known as surmullet and is larger.