Category: B

  • Beers, Clifford W. (1876-1943)

    Author of A Mind That Found Itself” and founder, in 1909, of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, now the National Mental Health Association.  

  • Burnt

    A look of char and/or smell of smoky odor or tar flavor.  

  • Bulgar

    Bulgar

    Cracked wheat that has been partially cooked and then toasted.  

  • Bulb crops

    Bulb crops

    Chives, Garlic, Leek, Onions, and Shallots.  

  • Bukava

    A nut-filled, thin-layered (as many as 30 layers) pastry flavored with butter and honey.  

  • Buffet

    A meal in which the dishes are placed on a tiered sideboard, often set at the entrance to dining area, on which various dishes of meats, poultry, fish, cold cuts, sweets, pastries, etc., are served in a decorative manner with the diners serving themselves and eating either standing up or seated informally. The word buffet…

  • Buffer capacity

    The ability of a food to resist change in its pH level.  

  • Budding

    A method of reproduction of yeast. A form of grafting, where the scion consists of a piece of bark carrying a single growth bud, inserted into the hark of the understock It is used especially for the propagation of roses and fruit trees. A form of grafting in which a (vegetative) bud of the desired…

  • Buckle

    Defect of a can which results in a permanent distortion of the end.  

  • Bruschetta

    Bruschetta

    Bread topped with garlic and olive oil and sometimes basil, and toasted on a grill. An Italian treat.