Global Kitchen Glossary

The way our cooking changes to embrace other cultural styles and the ingredients we buy from an increasingly global larder make our kitchens more international by the day. Things most of us had never heard of four or five years ago are now commonplace on supermarket shelves. A glossary that attempts to deal not only with the huge diversity of ingredients now available to us but also with every aspect of the kitchen inevitably grows like Topsy and can easily expand to book length. The most difficult thing about this process is what to leave out. Compiling this list was made easier as most of the subjects were raised by readers’ questions over the years.