Teaspoon. Equivalent to 5 ml (1/6 fl oz).

Melon baller. A kitchen implement with a wooden handle with a small sharp edged bowl at one end. This is used to scoop ball shapes from, particularly, melons but can also be used for other similarly textured foods such as cucumber. Larger ones are used for ice cream.

"To cook." To bake.

Bake blind

A steak cooked very rare.

Cooking. Kitchen.

A style of cooking which avoids cream, butter and flour for sauces and relies on the cooking juices.

"Bourgeois cuisine." Good family cooking. With carrots, onions and bacon, usually of braised meat or poultry. It indicates local ingredients, simply cooked.

The contemporary cuisine of the Riviera, using the readily available fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil, garlic and herbs of Provence - the so-called Mediterranean diet, now thought to have migrated north to central London.

Regional cooking. The cooking based on the land of a particular area.