Essence (noun)
es-ens
The basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features:
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English essencia, from Medieval Latin, from Latin essentia.
Example sentences
“You could not skip the garlic, the garlic was the very essence of the dish.”
Meraki (Μεράκι) (Greek) (noun) me-rah-kee To do something with soul, creativity, and love. When someone cooks with meraki, builds with meraki, writes with meraki, they’ve poured themselves into it. Derived…
