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Cottage Soup refers to the Irish meatless vegetable soup seasoned with salt and pepper and a dab of butter, finished with a roux and sprinkled with grated cheese. Roux refers to a base for sauces of combination of fat or oil and flour that is gently cooked and then mixed with stock or milk or whatever is required for the sauce, brought to the boil and simmered.

Cottenham Cheese refers to a double-cream, semi-hard, blue-moulded cheese which used to be made in the Midlands, a little flatter and broader than Stilton, but otherwise quite siimilar to it, although, in flavor, somewhat richer and creamier than Stilton. Cottenham is a village just north of Cambridge and it was the home of the Cottenham Cheese, a "liitle known" cheese which was described in Elizabeth Ayrton’s book as "double cream with blue veins, very like Stilton”. The recipe of Cottenham Cheese still exists and and the people in the village of Cottenham still produce them and made available only locally Cottenham Cheese is also known as Double Cottenham Cheese.

- 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.

Col Rapano is the Spanish term for Kohlrabi. A cabbage turnip; a turnip-like brassica which may be anything from purple to green. It is a delicately flavored vegetable with a round, swollen stem. Latin Name: Brassica caulorpa, Brassica oleraceae, var. Gongylodes

Carrot and Achinga Payar (Pacha Payar) Mezhukkupuratti refers to one of Kerala's vegetable stir-fries made of carrots and long beans cooked with lots of spices, such as cumin and black mustard seers and curry leaves

Cavatappi is the Italian word meaning "corkscrew" and the word is also a term used to refer to a short, ridged shaped twisted pasta that is fairly thick and shaped like an "S" or "corkscrew".

Cavatappi pasta has originated from the South of Italy.

Cavatappi is pronounced "kah-vah-tahp-pee"