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Cheese and Wine Pairing: Red wine is often seen as the perfect partner to Cheese however white wine can also be paired with 70\% of French cheeses; a dry white or even a sweet white wine.

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Cheese Manju refers to a small, soft, sweet-cream filled cake created in Miyazaki, Japan which has only come onto the market in recent years.

Deutsch: Käsekuchen / Español: Tarta de Queso / Português: Cheesecake / Français: Gâteau au fromage / Italiano: Cheesecake

Cheesecake is a popular dessert consisting of one or more layers. The main, and thickest layer, comprises a mixture of soft, fresh cheese (typically cream cheese or ricotta), eggs, and sugar. If there is a bottom layer, it often consists of a crust or base made from crushed cookies (like graham crackers), graham crumbs, pastry, or sometimes sponge cake.

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Cheesecloth refers to a coarsely woven cloth used for draining cheese, making bouquet garni or any number of other kitchen chores.

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Deutsch: Koch / Español: Chef / Português: Chef / Français: Chef / Italiano: Chef

Chef in the food context refers to a professional cook responsible for preparing, cooking, and often designing meals in a kitchen setting. A chef typically has formal culinary training and oversees kitchen operations, ensuring high standards of food quality, presentation, and safety.

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Chef tournant is a French term for "rotating chef", that is a relief chef which is able to carry out all the duties of a kitchen.

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Chef patissier is a French term which means "pastry chef".

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Chekmasy is referring to Russian wheat dumplings

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- Chelan (Cherry) : Chelan refers to the leading variety of early-ripening sweet cherry of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Fruit ripens two weeks ahead of Bing, yet resembles Bing with firm, high quality, round, dark red, heart-shaped fruit of good size (moderately large) . The best deep, good flavored, mahogany red cherry matures two weeks ahead of Bing and less susceptible or quite resistant to rain-cracking.

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Chelo refers to plain rice in Iran.