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A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill (Adrian Anthony Gill, 1954–2016), British Sunday Times restaurant and TV critic, travel writer and memoirist (Pour Me, AA Gill is Away); famed for acid wit, dictated copy due to dyslexia, and died of lung cancer at 62. Not the music critic Andy Gill.
Albert CanCook
Albert CanCook (@albert_cancook), real name Albert Niazhvinski (Альберт Няжвінскі), is a Belarusian-American cooking YouTuber, born 1988 in Minsk, known for silent sub-minute Shorts, Big Mac 'Burgar' remixes, cartoon-food recreations, and the 2024 cookbook Albert Can Cook.
Alice B. Toklas
Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967), American-born Paris writer and cook, lifelong partner of Gertrude Stein; author of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954), famous for its Haschich Fudge recipe and culinary-autobiography form.
America's Test Kitchen
America's Test Kitchen (ATK), founded 1992 in Boston, is a culinary media company behind Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Country, and the PBS show, known for recipes tested dozens of times by staff and 30,000 volunteer home testers.
Amy's Baking Company
Amy's Baking Company, Scottsdale, Arizona restaurant of Amy and Samy Bouzaglo; only Kitchen Nightmares episode where Gordon Ramsay walked out (aired May 10, 2013); closed September 2015 after social media meltdown.
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Travel Channel travel-food documentary series (2005-2012), followed chef Anthony Bourdain sampling cuisine and culture worldwide; 8 seasons, two cinematography Emmys, predecessor to Parts Unknown.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown is a CNN documentary travel and food series (2013-2018, 12 seasons) in which Bourdain explored food, culture, and politics in over forty countries; it won a Peabody Award and multiple Emmys, ending after his June 2018 death.
Bake Off: The Professionals
Bake Off: The Professionals, originally Bake Off: Crème de la Crème, is a British baking competition where professional pastry chef teams compete in two challenges per episode.
Bar Rescue
Bar Rescue is an American reality series premiering July 17, 2011 on Spike TV, now on Paramount Network, in which consultant Jon Taffer rescues failing bars via hidden-camera recon, stress tests, retraining, and renovations; about 25% of rescued bars closed within two years per a 2021 IUPUC study.
Beard Meats Food
Beard Meats Food, aka Adam Moran, Leeds-based British competitive eater and YouTuber; UK's number one independent competitive eater, MLE world rank 17, records in Yorkshire puddings and Jaffa cakes.
Beat Bobby Flay
Beat Bobby Flay is a Food Network cooking competition series (premiered August 24, 2013) where two chefs compete for the chance to challenge Bobby Flay with a signature dish; blind-judged, Flay wins 62.6% of 543 decided battles.
Beer and spirits journalism
Beer and spirits journalism is the branch of food media that reports on beer, whisky, spirits, and cocktails, with dedicated American drinks writers dating only from 1933.
Black Day (블랙데이) (South Korea)
Black Day (블랙데이) is South Korea's unofficial April 14 observance for singles who received nothing on Valentine's Day or White Day, marked by eating jajangmyeon, wearing black, and drinking black coffee; it emerged in the 1990s.
Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit is an American food magazine founded in 1956, owned by Condé Nast since 1993, known for its test kitchen recipes, its 2020 workplace controversy, and a print schedule of at least six seasonal issues a year.
Cake Boss
Cake Boss is a TLC reality series (premiered April 19, 2009) following baker Buddy Valastro of Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, and his family; 15 seasons, spin-offs Next Great Baker, Kitchen Boss, and Bakery Boss.
Calavera
Calavera (Spanish, "skull"): Mexican Day of the Dead skull imagery, including sugar, chocolate, and amaranth skulls (alfeñique technique), satirical Posada prints like La Catrina, and humorous mock-epitaph verses written each November.
Cannibalism in Africa
Cannibalism in Africa covers documented ritual and wartime cases (Zande, Leopard society, Mambasa 2003, Sahel videos) and the European colonial discourse of the savage African cannibal, largely refuted by modern anthropology since Arens' 1979 Man-Eating Myth.
Celebrity chef
Celebrity chef: a chef famous through media such as television, cookbooks, and social media whose fame shapes culinary culture and consumer behavior; traces to Carême in the late 1700s, accelerated by the 1993 Food Network launch.
Charles Domery
Charles Domery (Charles Domerz), c. 1778–after 1800, Polish soldier in the Prussian and French armies, captured on the Hoche in 1799 and interned at Liverpool, famous for eating 16 lbs of food daily, cats, rats, and candles.
Chef's Table
Chef's Table is a Netflix documentary series created by David Gelb, premiering April 26, 2015, profiling one renowned chef per episode; distinct from spin-offs France, Pastry, BBQ, Pizza, Noodles, and Legends.
Chopped (TV series)
Chopped is a Food Network cooking competition series premiering January 13, 2009, hosted by Ted Allen, in which four chefs cook mystery-basket ingredients across three rounds for a $10,000 prize.
Christina Tosi
Christina Tosi (born 1981) is an American pastry chef, founder of Milk Bar, creator of Cereal Milk, Compost Cookie, and Milk Bar Pie, James Beard winner, and MasterChef judge.
Christmas dinner
Christmas dinner, the festive meal of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Epiphany, known in Britain and America for roast turkey, stuffing, and Christmas pudding. Its modern menu emerged in the nineteenth century; other traditions center on carp, ham, lamb, or KFC in Japan.
Claire Saffitz
Claire Saffitz (born 1986) is an American pastry chef, recipe developer, and author, former Bon Appétit Senior Food Editor and host of Gourmet Makes, author of Dessert Person and What's for Dessert.
Clement Freud
Sir Clement Freud (1924-2009), Berlin-born British writer, broadcaster, chef and Liberal MP for Isle of Ely 1973-87; grandson of Sigmund Freud, brother of Lucian; four decades on Just a Minute; accused posthumously of abuse.
Come Dine with Me
Come Dine with Me is a British Channel 4 reality series (2005, MultiStory Media/ITV Studios) in which five strangers host dinner parties, secretly score each other out of 10, and the top host wins £1,000; narrated by Dave Lamb, adapted in 50 territories with over 20,000 episodes.
Competitive eating
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport of consuming the most food in a fixed time, governed by Major League Eating and best known through Nathan's July 4 hot dog contest, the Kobayashi-Chestnut rivalry, and Chestnut's 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Cook's Country
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen is a PBS cooking series, first aired September 6, 2008, reimagining American regional and family recipes with test-kitchen testing, equipment reviews, taste tests, and Toni Tipton-Martin food-history segments.
Cookbook
Cookbook (cookery book): a book of recipes and food-preparation information, a handbook-genre nonfiction form dating to Mesopotamian clay tablets ca. 1700 BCE, flourishing in late-medieval manuscripts and fifteenth-century printing.
Cooking show
Cooking show (also cookery show, cooking program): television program presenting food preparation in a studio kitchen, from BBC's 1946 Cookery and James Beard's I Love to Eat to Julia Child, the 1993 Food Network, competition franchises, and streaming docuseries.