Domiculture: alternatives and connections

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and a…

Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery.

Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at th…

A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or ra…

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and g…

A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in co…

A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.

A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.

A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.

A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain…

Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.

A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool