Agriculture / Farming
Related to cultivated land or the cultivation thereof
What is Agrarian?
The chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms, typically involving effervescence and giving off of heat.
What is fermentation?
The altering food to make it more accessible and extend the amount of time the food can last. This can enhance or diminish the quality of the food.
What is food processing?
What is searing?
The practice of eating together.
The combination of ecological principles with agricultural practices
What is agroecology?
The breaking of bonds within protein, due to extreme conditions causing the protein to restructure irreversibly.
What is denaturing?
Relating to the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits, and mutual differences.
What is ethnographic?
When two liquids mix that are not usually mixed together; as in mayonnaise or hollandaise sauce.
What is an emulsion?
An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
What is an omnivore?
A part of agriculture that deals with animal livestock like goats, sheep, and chickens.
What is pastoralism?
The movement of a solvent (ie. water) molecules from a solution with a lower concentration of water molecules to a solution with a higher concentration of water molecules through a cell's partially permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
All activities like infrastructure, social institutions, and cultural beliefs within a social group across the stages of production, processing, transport, and consumption of food.
What is a food system?
The Japanese term describing savory-ness signaling the presence of protein. Also known as the fifth flavor sense.
What is umami?
A social construct of the way people sort their affiliation with families.
What is kinship?
The process of preparing maize or other grains by cooking it and soaking it in an alkaline solution.
What is nixtamalization?
A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that causes illness.
What is a pathogen?
The right to control the way your food is made, traded and consumed; utilizing sound and sustainable methods.
What is food sovereignty?
Fiber that is found in fruits that is sometimes used as thickener in baked goods and jams.
What is pectin?
The study of flavors and how they affect and change our brains.
What is neurogastronomy?
A substance that is suitable to consumed.
What is a foodstuff?
A substance mainly used in a dough or batter to make it rise. Examples are baking powder, baking soda and yeast.
What is a leavener?
The lack of consistent access to healthy, affordable food in adequate amounts.
What is food insecurity?
The fact or quality being agreeable to one's taste.
What is palatability?
A raw material derived from an agricultural product that can be bought and sold for human consumption, such as coffee, corn, or dairy.
What is a food commodity?