When you can provide photos or description of a food you've seen or heard of but don't know its English name.
Questions tagged [food-identification]
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What kind of vegetable has pink and white concentric rings?
What kind of vegetable is pictured here with the pink and white concentric rings? They look like they might be some kind of beet or radish.
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What is this veggie sold as "leek sprout" in an Asian market?
What is this veggie I bought at the Asian market? It was called a leek sprout.
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How do I determine the cut of a pork steak prior to purchasing it?
Pork steaks can be (quoting Wikipedia):
cut from the Loin, Leg or shoulder of the pig.
When looking at a pork steak, is there some way that I can visually determine where the cut came from, perhaps by the bones in the steak? Specifically, I'd like…
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Georgian dessert based on walnuts
When I was a kid, some 40 years ago, I visited the country of Georgia and had a dessert I still (vaguely) remember but could never find a note on.
It was based on a whole unripe walnut (I think it was a walnut - it could have been a large nut) that…
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What kind of yeast is this?
I have a type of yeast that I'm finding hard to identify by English standard.
These are picture of it:
Whole, uncut.
cut in half
In my country, Bulgaria, we call it "live" yeast, despite that both kinds of yeast sold here are actually live. The…
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What are "Honey Bubbles" and how are they made?
I recently had the thrilling privilige of eating a Kaiseki meal at Kichisen in Kyoto. One of the meal's many highlights was a desert course consisting of a large citrus fruit filled with jelly and topped with what the apprentice chef serving us…
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What is the name of this Ukrainian bread?
As part of a welcoming ceremony, Vice President Joe Biden ate a certain type of bread in a salt and bread ceremony put on by the very hospitable Ukrainians in July of 2009.. It was not your every day loaf of bread though- it was very elaborate.
what…
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Can anyone identify this chocolate?
A recent date left this for me to find...a surprise gift, how sweet! I'd love to know just how sweet :)
It's 1 3/8 inches, 3.5 cm thick. The larger piece weighs 143 grams or 5 ounces.
It tastes pretty good (but I am definitely no connoisseur) and…
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Who knows what this fruit is called?
It has a slightly thick skin like an apple, semi-dry and grainy texture, with a slight apple flavor, about the size of a large grape, with one pit, reminiscent of that of a date.
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Name of an Indian dish with stuffed whole potatoes
I had a lovely Indian meal which I would like to find the name of. There were small whole potatoes with a little hole cut into them and filled with spices and (I think) some lamb mince. They were served in a spicy tomato sauce. Any idea what this…
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Identifying a type of Pizza Topping
I was looking at the tiny nation of Brunei on Google Maps, and I noticed they have a Pizza-Hut there, not too many details but a few photos were attached and there was a Pizza that I didn't recognise, although I must say it looked rather…
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Can you help me identify this garnish?
I recently visited a restaurant and was served this gorgeous lemon meringue tart. Can you help me identify which plant this green garnish belongs to?
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I'm pretty sure these aren't scones, but what are they?
We've made a type of deep fried bread in my family for years, which we've called "scones". I'm fairly certain these aren't actually scones, and have no idea what their name would properly be.
The recipe is very free-form, and uses whatever bread…
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What is (was) cocavello?
What is or what was a cocavello drink? Does someone know, what ingredients it contained and if it is still used (drinked) somewhere around the globe?
What I managed to find out so far is:
Mentioned in part III of Polish Positivist novel "Nad…
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What are these little balls in my sardines?
I opened a container of sardines and found loads of little round balls in what appears to be its belly.
What are these things? Are they eggs the sardine was going to lay (or whatever it's called for a fish) or something it ate? Are they good to…
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