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Kitchen Cabinet
Kitchen cabinet: an informal circle of unofficial advisers to a head of government, a term coined against Andrew Jackson (1829–1837) and later applied to leaders in the US, UK, Australia, and India.
Kitchen Debate
The Kitchen Debate: impromptu 24 July 1959 Nixon–Khrushchev arguments at the American National Exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park, famously in a model kitchen, taped on Ampex color videotape and broadcast worldwide.
Kitchen garden
A kitchen garden, also called a potager or kailyaird, is a small garden near the house for growing vegetables, herbs, and fruit for home use rather than sale.
Kitchen hood
A kitchen hood, commonly called a range hood, is a fan device above a stove or cooktop that captures smoke, grease, odors, and moisture, venting them outdoors or filtering and recirculating the air.
Kitchen knife
Kitchen knife: hand-held food-preparation cutting tool. Types include chef's knife (couteau du chef), santoku, paring, bread, cleaver. Defined by blade length, edge style, flexibility; chef's knife 8–12 inches is the workhorse.
Kitchen Nightmares
Kitchen Nightmares (Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, UK original) is a Gordon Ramsay reality franchise in which he rescues failing restaurants; five UK series from 2004, a US run 2007-2014, revived on Fox in 2023 with seasons through 2026.
Kitchen scale
A kitchen scale is a weighing device used to measure recipe ingredients accurately, sold in mechanical and digital forms, with digital models adding a tare function for weighing several ingredients in one bowl.
Kitchen sink realism
Kitchen sink realism: a British late-1950s/early-1960s movement in theatre, novels, film and TV (also 'kitchen sink drama') portraying working-class domestic life, from Look Back in Anger to Coronation Street's legacy.
Kitchen stove
Kitchen stove: a household appliance with a cooktop, often combined with an oven in a range. Types include gas, electric resistance, and induction (~85% efficient vs ~1/3 for gas). Covered by IEC 60335 safety standards and ISO cookstove performance tiers.
Kitchen utensil
Kitchen utensil: a hand-held small tool for food preparation, cooking, serving, or eating; covers knives, spatulas, pots, and ladles, spanning stone metates, aluminium's 1925 to 1950 peak, and modern food-contact regulation.
KitchenAid
KitchenAid is an American home appliance brand owned by Whirlpool Corporation, best known for its stand mixer, which it has sold since 1919. It began as a division of Hobart.
Kitchener, Ontario
Kitchener, Ontario: largest city of Waterloo Region, founded as Berlin by German-speaking settlers, renamed Kitchener on September 1, 1916; 256,885 residents in 2021, ION light rail, and the Kitchener 2051 official plan.
Kitcheners
Kitcheners, or Kitchener's Carvery Bar, is a landmark bar and live music venue in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, described as the city's second-oldest bar and a launching ground for local DJs.
Kitchie Nadal
Kitchie Nadal is a Filipino OPM singer-songwriter, frontwoman of Mojofly until 2003, whose 2004 self-titled debut album, certified 7× Platinum, made her a leading voice of 2000s OPM.
Kite
Kite: tethered wind-lifted craft, also called a kite aircraft or foil. Types include delta, diamond, box, parafoil, sled, stunt, and power kites; used from recreation to Wright brothers wing-warping tests and airborne wind energy.
Kite (1998 film)
Kite (カイト, A Kite) is a 1998 two-episode Japanese adult action OVA by Yasuomi Umetsu about Sawa, a schoolgirl trained as an assassin by corrupt detectives.
Kite (bird)
Kite (bird): graceful, long-winged raptors in Accipitridae, including Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus), Red Kite (Milvus milvus), and Black Kite; kite subfamilies are not monophyletic, and species range from Least Concern to Near Threatened.
Kite (geometry)
In geometry, a kite, also called a geometric kite, is a quadrilateral with two distinct pairs of equal adjacent sides. It may be convex or, in the concave case, called a dart.
Kite & Windsurfing
Kite & windsurfing: the two main wind-powered board sports, compared on wind minimums, learning curve, speed records and Olympic status, with signature spots like Tarifa and Cape Town, wind statistics tools, and safety regulation.
Kite experiment
The kite experiment, also called the kite-and-key experiment, was Benjamin Franklin's June 1752 demonstration that lightning is electricity, drawing charge from storm clouds down a wet string to a metal key.
Kite Man
Kite Man (Charles "Chuck" Brown) is a DC Comics kite-themed Batman villain created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, debuting in Batman #133 (1960), revived by Tom King with the "Kite Man. Hell yeah." catchphrase and starring in the 2024 Max animated series Kite Man: Hell Yeah!.
Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
Kite Man: Hell Yeah! is a 2024 Max adult animated sitcom, a Harley Quinn spin-off created by Halpern, Schumacker, and Lorey, in which Kite Man and Golden Glider run Noonan's bar for D-list DC villains.
Kite Marine
Kite Marine is an IKO-certified kitesurfing school at the Jaz Aquamarine Resort in Hurghada, Egypt, distinct from Kite Optics marine binoculars; it offers shallow-water lessons, rentals, and Red Sea kite safaris, rated 4.85/5 on IKO.
Kite Pharma
Kite Pharma is an American cell-therapy biopharmaceutical company in Santa Monica, California, founded by Arie Belldegrun in 2009 and bought by Gilead Sciences in 2017 for $11.9 billion.
KITE Research Institute
KITE Research Institute is the research arm of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute at the University Health Network in Toronto, conducting rehabilitation science on aging, disability, and injury recovery.
Kite's Angels Beach
Kite's Angels Beach, an IKO-affiliated kitesurf school (Kite's Angels Beach SSD a R.L.) in Marina di Grosseto, Tuscany, near the WWF San Felice oasis; known for a 140-m buoyed kite lane, NW thermal winds of 14-20 knots, and hydrofoil and IKO instructor courses.
Kiteboarding
Kiteboarding, or kitesurfing, is a water sport where a rider on a board is pulled by a steerable kite. Key facts: Legaignoux inflatable leading edge (1984), injury rates 7.0-10.5 per 1000 h, Olympic sailing discipline.
Kiteboarding Asia
Kiteboarding Asia (KBA), Thai kite school network founded 2001 in Hua Hin, first kite school in Thailand; IKO-certified centers in Hua Hin, Phuket, Koh Phangan, Koh Samui, Pattaya; 10,000+ students, kitesurf, wingfoil, e-foil lessons, and gear rental.
Kiteboarding Club Tarifa
Kiteboarding Club Tarifa (KBC Tarifa) is an IKO-licensed kitesurf, surf, and SUP school in Tarifa, Spain, run by Franky and Anabel, based at Playa de Los Lances, using radio-helmet coaching and F-ONE gear.
Kites (film)
Kites is a 2010 Indian romantic action thriller directed by Anurag Basu, produced by Rakesh Roshan, and starring Hrithik Roshan and Bárbara Mori, released in Hindi and English versions.