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Aroma

A distinctive, pervasive, and usually pleasant or savory smell.

Biko

A sweet rice cake from the Phillipines.

Charring

A chemical process of incomplete combustion of certain solids when

subjected to high heat.

Crooknecks

A squash of a club-shaped variety with a curved neck and warty skin.

Cucurbitaceae

The gourd family of flowering plants, belonging to the order

Cucurbitales and containing 98 genera and about 975 species of

food and ornamental plants.

Cucurbita Maxima

one of at least four species of cultivated squash, is one of the most

diverse domesticated species.

Cucurbita Pepo

A cultivated plant of the genus Cucurbita; yields varieties of winter

squash and pumpkin.

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Goa bibingka

Also known as bibik or bebinka, is a type of pudding and a traditional Indo-

Portuguese dessert.

Latter

near or towards the end of something:

Lyophilisation

A method of drying food or blood plasma

Malagkit

Glutinous Rice is a type of rice grown mainly in Southeast and East

Asia and the Eastern parts of South Asia.

Misa de Gallo

is a name for the Roman Catholic Mass celebrated around midnight

of Christmas Eve and sometimes in the days immediately preceding

Christmas.

Pinyin

A system for writing Mandarin Chinese in Roman letters rather than

Chinese characters.

Terra Cotta

A type of fired clay, typically of a brownish-red colour and unglazed,

used as an ornamental building material and in modelling.

Texture
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The visual or tactile surface characteristics and appearance of

something.

m a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without

destroying theirphysical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuu

m so that the ice sublimes