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Grace Dent
Grace Dent (born 1973, Carlisle) is a British journalist and broadcaster, Guardian restaurant critic since 2017, former Evening Standard Grace & Flavour columnist, memoirist of Hungry, host of the Comfort Eating podcast, and co-host of BBC MasterChef with Anna Haugh.
Gratuity
A gratuity (tip) is a voluntary customer payment to a service worker, legally distinct from a service charge. Covers history, US tip credit ($2.13 tipped minimum), weak evidence tips reward service, and the 2025-2028 No Tax on Tips deduction.
Great British Menu
Great British Menu: BBC Two cookery competition produced by Optomen since 2006, in which professional chefs compete through regional heats to cook at a themed banquet; 21 series, judges Tom Kerridge, Lorna McNee, Phil Wang.
Guga Foods
Guga Foods is the YouTube cooking channel of Gustavo "Guga" Tosta, a Brazilian-born, Miami-based cook known for steak, wagyu, dry-aging, and sous vide experiments, plus the book Guga: Breaking the Barbecue Rules.
Hamantash
Hamantash (Yiddish homentash, Hebrew oznei Haman) is the triangular filled cookie eaten on Purim, named for Haman; likely from German Mohntaschen, poppy pocket, first recorded as food in a 1550 Mantua play.
Hannah Glasse
Hannah Glasse, née Allgood (1708–1770), was an English cookery writer whose 1747 book The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy became a bestseller, coining "Yorkshire pudding".
Hannah Hart
Hannah Hart, also known as Harto, is an American YouTuber, author, and producer who created the comedy cooking series My Drunk Kitchen in 2011, wrote two New York Times bestsellers, and hosted Food Network's I Hart Food.
Hell's Kitchen (American TV series)
Hell's Kitchen (American TV series), Fox reality cooking competition adapted from the British 2004 ITV original, premiered May 30, 2005; Gordon Ramsay eliminates chefs from red and blue teams toward a head chef prize.
Holiday Baking Championship
Holiday Baking Championship is a Food Network holiday baking competition that premiered November 9, 2014, hosted since season 4 by Jesse Palmer, judged by Duff Goldman and Nancy Fuller among others, with a $25,000 prize in recent seasons.
Hot Ones
Hot Ones is an American celebrity interview web series on YouTube, created by Chris Schonberger and Sean Evans in 2015, where guests answer questions while eating ten increasingly spicy chicken wings.
Ina Garten
Ina Garten, born 1948, is the Barefoot Contessa: a Food Network host and author of 14 cookbooks plus the 2024 memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens. She left the White House OMB in 1978 to buy a Hamptons specialty food store, sold it in 1996, and launched a Vox Media podcast in 2026.
Iron Chef America
Iron Chef America: Food Network cooking-competition series (2005-2018), second US adaptation of Fuji TV's Iron Chef, following Iron Chef USA (2001). Iron Chefs Flay, Batali, Morimoto, Cora, Symon, Garces, Forgione, Zakarian; Alton Brown commentator, Mark Dacascos Chairman, secret-ingredient one-hour battles.
Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend
Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend is a 2022 American unscripted cooking-competition series based on Fuji Television's format, released as eight episodes on Netflix.
J. Kenji López-Alt
J. Kenji López-Alt, also known as James Kenji López-Alt, is an American chef and food writer whose cookbooks The Food Lab and The Wok apply food science to home cooking.
Jack Monroe
Jack Monroe (born 1988, Melissa Hadjicostas) is a British food writer and anti-poverty campaigner whose 2012 blog A Girl Called Jack documented feeding her son on £10 a week, leading to bestselling budget cookbooks and the Vimes Boots price index.
James Beard Foundation Award
The James Beard Foundation Award is an annual American culinary honor established in 1990, recognizing chefs, restaurateurs, authors, and journalists, and widely described as among the nation's most prestigious.
Jay Rayner
Jay Rayner (born 1966) is a British restaurant critic, broadcaster, novelist and jazz pianist, the Observer's critic 1999 to 2025 and then Financial Times critic, known for savage, score-free reviews, the Le Cinq takedown, The Kitchen Cabinet, and the Jay Rayner Sextet.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) was a French magistrate and author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), the foundational 1825–26 gastronomic text; also the namesake of the triple-cream Brillat-Savarin cheese.
Jessica Seinfeld
Jessica Seinfeld (née Sklar), American author and philanthropist, wife of Jerry Seinfeld; founder of Good+Foundation (formerly Baby Buggy, 2001) and author of six bestselling cookbooks including Deceptively Delicious (2007), later cleared in a plagiarism dispute with Missy Chase Lapine.
Joey Chestnut
Joey "Jaws" Chestnut is an American competitive eater who has won the Nathan's Famous hot dog contest 18 times and holds the record of 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
John Diamond (journalist)
John Diamond (1953–2001), British Times columnist and broadcaster, husband of Nigella Lawson, known for his weekly Times cancer column, What the Papers Say 1997 award, and the book C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too.
John Whaite
John Whaite (born 1989) is a British baker, author and TV presenter, winner of The Great British Bake Off series 3 in 2012 and Strictly 2021 runner-up in its first all-male pairing; author of five cookbooks, memoir Dancing on Eggshells, and Ruff Puff Brownies founder.
Jonathan Gold
Jonathan Gold (1960-2018), Los Angeles Times restaurant critic and Counter Intelligence columnist, the first and only food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism (2007).
Joshua Weissman
Joshua Weissman, American chef and YouTube creator behind the "But Better" series; author of NYT bestsellers An Unapologetic Cookbook (2021) and Texture Over Taste (2023); trained at Uchiko, Austin.
Julia (2022 TV series)
Julia (2022–2023) is an HBO Max comedy-drama created by Daniel Goldfarb about Julia Child launching The French Chef at WGBH. Sarah Lancashire stars; eight-episode season one premiered March 31, 2022; critics consensus: infectious joie de vivre.
Julia Child
Julia Child (1912–2004), American cooking teacher and author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) and the TV series The French Chef, who brought French home cooking to mainstream America.
Julie Powell
Julie Powell (Julie Anne Powell, born Julia Anne Foster; 1973-2022), American food writer and blogger whose Salon blog the Julie/Julia Project cooking all 524 Julia Child recipes in a year produced the memoir Julie & Julia and the 2009 Nora Ephron film.
Junior Bake Off
Junior Bake Off is the British children's spin-off of The Great British Bake Off, made by Love Productions. Began on CBBC in 2011 with Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry judging; revived on Channel 4 in 2019 with Harry Hill hosting and Ravneet Gill and Liam Charles judging bakers aged 9-15.
Kate Quilton
Kate Quilton (Katie Marie Quilton, born 1983) is an English TV presenter and journalist, long-time host of Channel 4's Food Unwrapped (since 2012), Superfoods: The Real Story, and a former Channel 4 multiplatform commissioning editor.
Kids Baking Championship
Kids Baking Championship is an American reality baking competition on Food Network, premiering in 2015, in which young bakers face themed dessert challenges judged by Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli.