chicory

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.

   “The eating is beautiful; that must be allowed. Two soups, three fishes, five roast chickens, and a piece of veal, stewed with cherries; a dish of chops with chickory, and a meat-pie garnished with cockscombs— [...]”

2. isim Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and certain other cultivars with other names.

   “sugarloaf chicory”

3. isim Endive (Cichorium endivia), the source of escarole and frisée.

   “The leaves of the cultivated chicory, endive, when blanched, form an ingredient in early spring salads.”

4. isim A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.

   “It is a very prevalent idea that the admixture of chicory with coffee is a decided improvement, and de gustibus non est disputandum [tastes cannot be disputed]; but the low price of chicory as compared with coffee is a strong temptation to increase the proportion of chicory to an undue extent.”