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A brand of brown sauce. The recipe was created in 1824 by H. W. Brand, who was chef to

A shellfish (mollusc), Haliotus spp., also known as ormer, paua, or sea ear. An 85g serving provides 89kcal (372kJ), 14.5g

medium sweet wines.

ATP-binding cassette proteins; a family of cell membrane transport proteins that bind and hydrolyse ATP, linked to active uptake into,

An easy and effective exercise for strengthening the abdominal muscles. It may be performed almost anytime and anywhere, while sitting, standing, or lying down. All you need to do is tense your abdominal (stomach) muscles for a few seconds while breathing out. This causes the muscles to contract without producing any movement of the trunk and hips. Be careful not to overstrain. ...

An exercise to test and develop your ability to sustain contractions of abdominal muscles.

▪ Lie on your back with your knees bent and your lower back pressed gently into the floor. Place your hands in a relaxed position on the top of your thighs. Keep your lower back flat on the floor and slowly curl up to touch your knees with your hands; hold the position for as long as possible: 35 to 60 seconds indicates a good level of endurance. Beginners should not attempt to hold for more than 60 seconds....

Four pairs of muscles, often referred to as the stomach muscles, that support and protect the contents of the abdomen and help you to breathe out forcibly. (The technical names for the four pairs of muscles are the rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal oblique, and the transversus abdominis.) Strong and healthy abdominal muscles support the back during lifting by stabilizing the vertebral column. If the muscles are weakened by lack of exercise they become pendulous, forming a ‘pot-belly’. Despite claims to the contrary (...

A muscle that moves a part of the body away from the midline, or causes the fingers or toes to spread apart....

A simple exercise for strengthening the abductor muscles in the groin.

▪ Lie on your right side with both legs straight and together. Support your upper body with your right arm. Lift your left leg upwards slowly and smoothly; arch your back slightly so that the leg does not move forwards. Hold the position for a few seconds then gently lower the leg. Repeat the exercise on the other side....

drink made from yoghurt with soda water, and sometimes also vodka.

A firm-textured semi-sweet Scottish biscuit characteristically flavoured with caraway seeds. It takes its name (which was first recorded in 1834

Rare genetic disease involving failure of synthesis or assembly of plasma lipoproteins that contain apo-protein B (chylomicrons, VLDL,

The fruit of Pouteria caimito, with caramel flavoured, white translucent flesh. See also sapote.

medium sweet wines.

Abondance (also called tomme d'Abondance) is a firm cheese produced in Savoie, in southeastern France. It is made from

A spirit flavoured with wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Originally imported from Switzerland (where it was a patent medicine) to

An unsweetened green spirit whose principal and characteristic ingredient is oil of wormwood (see vermouth). Wormwood is a

Pure ethyl alcohol.

Absorption is the process by which nutrients in the gut are taken into the bloodstream so that body cells can use them. For a nutrient to be absorbed, it has to be broken down into substances small enough to pass through the gut wall. Despite eating a balanced meal rich in nutrients, a person may still be malnourished if he or she lacks the enzymes required to break down the food into absorbable components (lack of the enzyme lactase, for example, will result in an inability to digest milk sugar (...

Appellation contrôlée. See wine classification, France.