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Michel Lotito
Michel Lotito, known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mr Eat All"), was a French entertainer from Grenoble who ate metal and glass, including a whole Cessna 150 airplane between 1978 and 1980.
Michelin Guide
The Michelin Guide (Guide Michelin) is Michelin's annual restaurant and hotel guide, launched free in 1900 to promote motoring; its anonymous inspectors award one to three stars, Bib Gourmands, Keys, and other distinctions worldwide.
Mooncake (月饼)
Mooncake (月饼, yuèbǐng; bánh trung thu in Vietnam) is the round filled pastry of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The name appears in Southern Song sources; the reunion meaning is first documented in the Ming. Regional styles include Cantonese, Suzhou, and Jin; GB/T 19855-2023 governs quality.
Mukbang (먹방)
Mukbang (먹방), from meokneun bangsong (eating broadcast), is a South Korean online genre where hosts eat large amounts of food on camera while interacting with viewers; it began on AfreecaTV around 2009-2010 and entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2021.
Museum of Food and Drink
The Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is a Brooklyn nonprofit museum founded by Dave Arnold in 2005, with exhibits visitors can taste, touch, and smell.
My Kitchen Rules
My Kitchen Rules (MKR) is an Australian Seven Network cooking competition running since 1 February 2010, in which teams of two home cooks serve scored three-course Instant Restaurant meals; judges have included Manu Feildel, Pete Evans, Colin Fassnidge, Nigella Lawson, and Matt Preston.
Mystery Diners
Mystery Diners is a Food Network reality series (2011–2016) hosted by Charles Stiles of Business Evaluation Services, in which undercover diners with hidden cameras investigate employee theft and misconduct in restaurants; 145 episodes, IMDb rating 3.7/10.
Nadiya Hussain
Nadiya Hussain, born 1984 in Luton, is a British-Bangladeshi baker, TV presenter, and author who won The Great British Bake Off in 2015, then hosted BBC cookery series and wrote cookbooks, novels, and a memoir before leaving TV in 2025.
Nagi Maehashi
Nagi Maehashi, Australian food writer and founder of the RecipeTin Eats blog (2014), author of NYT bestseller Dinner (2022) and Tonight (2024), runs the RecipeTin Meals food bank.
Nailed It!
Nailed It! is a 2018 American baking competition series on Netflix, hosted by Nicole Byer and judged by pastry chef Jacques Torres, with a $10,000 prize.
Nara Smith
Nara Aziza Smith, also called Nara Smith, is a South African-German model and TikTok lifestyle creator with over 12 million followers who makes from-scratch cooking videos in couture, wrote the cookbook Homemade, and rejects the tradwife label.
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, is a 10-minute competitive eating event at Coney Island, NY, sanctioned by Major League Eating; Joey Chestnut holds 18 titles and the 76-dog record.
Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater, English food writer and broadcaster ('a cook who writes'), has written The Observer's weekly food column since 26 September 1993, authored about 25 books including Real Fast Food, Appetite, and The Kitchen Diaries, and wrote the memoir Toast.
Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson (born 1960), English food writer and TV cook, author of How to Eat and How to Be a Domestic Goddess, over 8 million books sold, judge on The Great British Bake Off from 2026 replacing Prue Leith.
Nini Nguyen
Nini Nguyen, New Orleans chef, cooking instructor, and Đặc Biệt cookbook author (Knopf, 2024); Top Chef season 16 and All-Stars L.A. contestant; winner of Last Bite Hotel; runs Cooking with Nini classes and the Đặc Biệt Supper Club.
Ninong Ry
Ninong Ry (Ryan Morales Reyes) is a Filipino chef and food vlogger from Malabon who started cooking videos in July 2020, known for no-recipe freestyle Filipino cooking, the viral kare-kare hot plate video, millions of followers, and two Summit Books cookbooks.
Nuka-Cola
Nuka-Cola is the fictional soft drink of the Fallout franchise, a parody of Coca-Cola invented in-universe in 2044 by Caleb Bradberton; its bottle caps became post-apocalyptic currency, and variants like Nuka-Cola Quantum inspired real Jones Soda products.
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster is a British food-comedy podcast in which guests order their dream meal at an imaginary restaurant; 120 million downloads, fifth place in UK reach, live Royal Albert Hall episodes.
Pizza effect
Pizza effect: cultural re-enculturation coined by Agehananda Bharati (Leopold Fischer) in 1970; a cultural form exported, transformed abroad, and reimported with new prestige, reshaping the origin community's self-understanding; applied to Hinduism, yoga, Buddhism, nationalism.
Please Take Care of My Refrigerator (냉장고를 부탁해)
Please Take Care of My Refrigerator (냉장고를 부탁해, Chef & My Fridge) is a JTBC Korean cooking variety show (2014-2019, revived December 15, 2024 on JTBC and Netflix) where chefs compete in 15-minute battles using only ingredients from celebrity guests' refrigerators hauled into the studio.
Poppy O'Toole
Poppy O'Toole, known as Poppy Cooks and the Potato Queen, is an English Michelin-trained chef (born 1994) whose viral TikTok potato recipes, including crispy parmesan roasties and 15-hour potatoes, led to six Bloomsbury cookbooks and TV judging on BBC Three's Young MasterChef.
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: British Channel 4 reality series (2004-2007, five series) in which chef Gordon Ramsay rescues failing UK restaurants; parent of the Fox Kitchen Nightmares and its spin-offs.
Randy Santel
Randy Santel, stage name Atlas, is an American professional competitive eater from Missouri who began in 2010, has won over a thousand restaurant food challenges worldwide, and owns FoodChallenges.com.
Ree Drummond
Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, is an American blogger, cookbook author, and Food Network personality whose 2006 blog about ranch life near Pawhuska, Oklahoma grew into cookbooks, a TV show, and Pawhuska businesses.
Restaurant rating
Restaurant rating: evaluation of restaurants via stars or grades. Covers Michelin Stars (since 1926, food only), UK hygiene ratings 0-5, Yelp/Google consumer scores (Google averages 0.7 stars higher), fake-review FTC rule of 2024.
Restaurant: Impossible
Restaurant: Impossible, Food Network reality series hosted by Robert Irvine, saves failing US restaurants in two days with $10,000; ran 2011 to 2023, rebooted 2026 as Last Call with Aarón Sánchez and Jen Agg.
Ricky Lauren
Ricky Lauren (Ricky Ann Loew-Beer), American author, photographer, artist, and psychotherapist, wife of designer Ralph Lauren since 1964; wrote Safari, My Island, Double RL Ranch, and The Hamptons: Food, Family, and History (2012, reissued 2025).
Ruby Tandoh
Ruby Tandoh (born 1992, Southend) is a British food writer and 2013 Great British Bake Off finalist; author of Crumb, Flavour, Eat Up!, Cook As You Are, and All Consuming (2025), formerly a Guardian columnist.
Saltine cracker challenge
Saltine cracker challenge (saltine challenge): a food dare to eat six saltine soda crackers in 60 seconds without drinking, crumbs included. Hard because crackers absorb saliva; Guinness record is 6.
Samin Nosrat
Samin Nosrat (born 1979) is an Iranian-American chef and food writer, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (2017) and host of the Netflix series adapted from it; also wrote Good Things (2025).