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Aavakaaya refers to the most famous pickle made in Andhra Pradesh.
Abadejo is a Spanish term which means "fresh cod". It also refers to "Pollock" (Pollachius pollachius).
Abaisse is the French food term which means "rolled-out pastry". It refers to a term in pastry-making that is generally used to describe a rolled out piece or sheet of pastry to a certain thickness, depending on the use for which it is intended.
Abaisse is also used to describe a layer of sponge cake or biscuit.
Abat-Faim refers to a culinary and antiquated French term; the French for, literally, a "hunger-reducer" or "hunger suppressant", such as a substantial joint of roast beef; "grosse pièce de viande or pièce de résistance" . Hence it comes to mean the piece de resistance- something to cut at and come again.
It refers to the first dish served to guests to suppress, beat, reduce the grumblings of their stomach. Abat-Faim is, however, obsolete with the emergence of the French term hors-d'oeuvre or appetizer in English which is not meant to reduce, beat or suppress hunger as in Abat-Faim, but implies raising or increasing the appetite.
Abat-Faim is pronounced "a-ba-fin".
Abats is a French term which means offal. It refers to internal organs of butchered animals sold mainly by stores call "triperies" that specialize in this. White offal are sweetbreads, feet, brains. Red offal are heart, lungs, liver.