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Ingredients
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100

The cooking technique for removing and dissolving browned foods from the bottom of cookware to flavor sauces, soups, and gravies

Deglazing

100

The weak gene makes you taste soup instead of this ingredient

Cilantro

100

This Latin American dessert is named after the types of milk it is soaked in.

Tres Leches
100

This flamboyant chef is most known for hosting Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives along with his bringing us to flavor town

Guy Fieri

100

Debate raged across the internet as what qualifies this type of food

i.e. "what makes a ____ a _____?"

Sandwich

200

This reaction is between amino acids and reducing sugars.

Maillard Reaction

200

Carbonara is traditionally made with eggs, pecorino romano, and this meat

Guanciale

200

This simple fluffy pancake sounds like something you wouldn't want to put in the oven (from the Netherlands)

Dutch Baby

200

Attributed with bringing French cuisine to America, this chef wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking and hosting the television show The French Chef

Julia Child

200

You see it, you eat it

See-food diet

300

This toxin is an irritant that mammal's TRPV1 receptors are sensitive to. Human's however have adopted it as the main component for many spices and artificially as extra heat

Capsaicin

300

From a flowering plant, the Aztecs used it as a chocolate enhancer, and the Spanish called it this, meaning "little pod."

Vanilla

300

Japanese delicacy of thinly sliced, high-quality raw fish or meat, served without rice

Sashimi

300

This famous chef taught Gordan Ramsay and is the first British Chef to earn 3 Michelin Stars

Marco Pierre White

300

Cacio e Pepe, Gricia, Carbonara, and Amatriciana are known as this

The Four Great Roman Pastas

400

Sugars, starches, and fibers that the body breaks down into glucose

Carbohydrates

400

Virtually Brazil's national drink, caipirinha is an icy concoction of fresh lime and cachaca, a liqueur distilled mainly from this sweet crop

Sugar Cane

400

This Chicago style variation is known for "it's under the sauce"

Deep Dish Pizza
400

This Food Network Chef is associated with multiple catchphrases including "BAM" and "Kick it up a notch"

Emeril Lagasse

400

This sandwiches are also a time of night

medianoche

500

Vibrant purple yam from the Philippines 

Ube

500

Magnifera Indica is the national fruit of the Philippines, India, and Pakistan. 

Mango

500

This lower chest cut of beef is known as a BBQ essential for long slow cooking and rich flavor

Brisket

500

He was the culinary consultant behind "Ratatouille"

Thomas Keller

500

My favorite cookbook is really these three numbers

20-40-60