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Cooku with Comali
Cooku with Comali (குக் வித் கோமாளி), also Cook with Comali, is a Tamil comedy cooking competition on Star Vijay and Disney+ Hotstar, pairing celebrity cooks with comedians since 2019 across seven seasons.
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (H마트에서 울다), Michelle Zauner's 2021 Knopf debut, expands her 2018 New Yorker essay on grieving her Korean mother Chongmi through food and Korean American identity.
Culinary diplomacy
Culinary diplomacy is the use of food and cuisine to foster cross-cultural understanding and improve international relations. It is a soft power tool used by states worldwide.
Culinary tourism
Culinary tourism, also called food tourism or gastronomy tourism, is intentional, exploratory engagement with unfamiliar foodways. Coined by folklorist Lucy Long (1996), it spans scholarship, industry, and curiosity-driven eating.
Cutthroat Kitchen
Cutthroat Kitchen is an American cooking competition series hosted by Alton Brown on Food Network from 2013 to 2017, in which chefs bid to sabotage rivals.
Dave Arnold
Dave Arnold (born 1971) is an American culinary technology innovator, founder of the Museum of Food and Drink, former head of the French Culinary Institute's culinary technology department, co-creator of the Booker and Dax bar with David Chang, and author of the James Beard-winning Liquid Intelligence.
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Triple D) is a Food Network road-trip series, premiered April 23, 2007, hosted by Guy Fieri, created by David Page, visiting independent American diners, drive-ins, and dives in a red 1968 Camaro.
Dinner
Dinner: the main meal of the day, usually in the evening but at midday in parts of Britain; from Old French disner, to break one's fast. Covers etymology, the drift from midday to evening, meal structure, hospitality, and modern solo-dining trends.
Dolly Alderton
Dolly Alderton (born 1988, London) is a British memoirist, novelist, Sunday Times Style agony aunt, and former co-host of The High Low podcast; author of Everything I Know About Love, Ghosts, Dear Dolly, and Good Material.
Don Gorske
Donald (Don) Gorske, the Big Mac record holder and "Mac Daddy", is a retired Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, prison guard who has eaten Big Macs daily since 17 May 1972, holding the Guinness World Record for most Big Macs eaten in a lifetime (over 35,000 by March 2025), documented with every receipt.
Donal Skehan
Donal Skehan (born 1986, Howth, Dublin) is an Irish food writer, TV presenter, and cookbook author behind Kitchen Hero and Meals in Minutes, with 11 cookbooks and a 1-million-subscriber YouTube channel; formerly a singer with Streetwize and Industry.
Eating utensil etiquette
Eating utensil etiquette covers rules for using knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks, and hands at the table. Key facts: pre-16th-century Europe lacked eating utensils; the fork spread via Catherine de' Medici; à la russe service drove Victorian cutlery complexity; norms vary sharply by region.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969, Waterbury, Connecticut) is the American author of Eat, Pray, Love, Big Magic, The Signature of All Things, City of Girls, and the 2025 Oprah's Book Club memoir All the Way to the River, with over 25 million books sold.
Endocannibalism
Endocannibalism, or mortuary cannibalism, is the ritual consumption of deceased relatives within one's own social group. It was thought to be most widely practiced in lowland South America.
Epic Meal Time
Epic Meal Time is a Canadian web cooking series created by Harley Morenstein and Sterling Toth, launched on YouTube in October 2010, known for extreme high-calorie recipes.
Eric Greenspan
Eric Greenspan names two principal Americans: a Los Angeles chef (The Foundry on Melrose, Mr. Beast Burger virtual brands, grilled cheese cookbooks) and a Canton, Massachusetts chiropractor and Innovative Wellness Systems executive.
Eric Pateman
Eric Pateman is a Vancouver-born chef, entrepreneur, and culinary tourism strategist who founded Edible Canada, led YVR's guest experience as CXO, and is now SVP North America at Plaza Premium Group.
Fat Thursday
Fat Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek) is the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday, opening the final week of Carnival before Lent. Best known in Poland for eating pączki, about 100 million doughnuts sold that day; distinct from Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
Feast of the Seven Fishes
Feast of the Seven Fishes (la vigilia): Italian-American Christmas Eve meal of at least seven seafood dishes, rooted in Southern Italian Catholic meatless fast days and developed in the United States from the early 1900s.
Food Network
Food Network is an American basic cable channel devoted to food and cooking, launched from New York in November 1993 by Reese Schonfeld. Now under Warner Bros. Discovery, it shifted from instructional shows to competitions and created the celebrity chef phenomenon.
Food Network Star
Food Network Star (originally The Next Food Network Star), an American reality cooking competition on Food Network from 2005, testing culinary and on-camera skills; the prize is the winner's own Food Network show; its best-known winner is Guy Fieri, season 2 (2006).
Foodie
Foodie: informal term for a food enthusiast who eats as a hobby, coined around 1980-1982 (Gael Greene, New York magazine; Harpers & Queen), studied by Johnston and Baumann for its democracy-versus-distinction tension, and considered dated by the mid-2020s.
Frozen Dead Guy Days
Frozen Dead Guy Days is a winter festival in Estes Park, Colorado, honoring Bredo Morstøl, a Norwegian man kept cryogenically frozen since his 1989 death.
Fuck, That's Delicious
Fuck, That's Delicious, also called That's Delicious, is an American food-travel series in which Queens rapper and former chef Action Bronson eats his way around the world with friends.
Furious Pete
Furious Pete, Peter (Piotr) Czerwinski, Canadian competitive eater, bodybuilder, and YouTuber (~5M subscribers); Guinness record holder (4 hamburgers/minute), 72-oz steak in 6:48, ~90 contests won since 2007.
Gesine Bullock-Prado
Gesine Bullock-Prado, also known as Gesine Prado, is an American pastry chef and author who left Sandra Bullock's production company to open a Vermont bakery in 2004.
Giles Coren
Giles Coren (born 1969, Paddington, London), British restaurant critic and columnist for The Times since 2002, previously Tatler and the Independent on Sunday; Food and Drink Writer of the Year 2005, novelist of Winkler, TV presenter, and author of the podcast Giles Coren Has No Idea.
Going Dutch
Going Dutch, or to go Dutch, is an idiom for each person paying their own share of a meal or outing; from the 19th-century Americanism Dutch treat, likely via the Pennsylvania Dutch, not a Dutch custom.
Gordon Behind Bars
Gordon Behind Bars, also known as Ramsay Behind Bars, is a 2012 British docu-reality series. It follows Gordon Ramsay teaching inmates at HMP Brixton to run a bakery.
Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip
Gordon, Gino, and Fred: Road Trip is an ITV travel-food series with Gordon Ramsay, Gino D'Acampo and Fred Sirieix touring countries by camper van; four series aired 2018–2023 before D'Acampo's departure ended it.