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Al Dente

Last Updated: June 01, 2009

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Italian for “to the tooth”; used to describe a food, usually pasta, that is cooked only until it gives a slight resistance when one bites into it

pasta on fork



LABENSKY, SARAH R.; HAUSE, ALAN M.; LABENSKY, STEVEN R.; MARTEL, PRICILLA, ON COOKING: A TEXTBOOK OF CULINARY FUNDAMENTALS, 4th Edition, ©2007. Electronically reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

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