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Cooking Glossary of Terms : Culinary Dictionary : Coooking Schools, Culinary Institutes
al dente
An Italian term, usually referring to pasta, used to describe the texture of slight resistence when bitten. The meaning of the phrase is "to the tooth." Dentists, perhaps, mean something else.