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Three Meals a Day (삼시세끼)
Three Meals a Day (삼시세끼) is a tvN Korean reality variety series directed by Na Young-seok, first aired October 17, 2014, in which celebrities cook three self-sufficient meals daily in rural, island, and mountain villages; Fishing Village 1 peaked at 14.2%.
Tineke Younger
Tineke "Tini" Younger, also TinekeYounger, is an American TikTok chef from Frederick, Maryland, known for her viral mac and cheese, Next Level Chef season 2, and the cookbook Today We Are Cooking.
Tom Parker Bowles
Tom Parker Bowles (born 1974), also Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles, British food writer, critic and broadcaster, son of Queen Camilla and godson of King Charles III; Mail on Sunday restaurant critic, MasterChef judge, author of Cooking and the Crown and Full English.
Top Chef
Top Chef: American Bravo reality cooking competition, premiered March 8, 2006, produced by Magical Elves; hosts Katie Lee, Padma Lakshmi, Kristen Kish; head judge Tom Colicchio; 29 international versions, 42 Emmy nominations.
Top Chef: All-Stars L.A.
Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. is season 17 of Bravo's Top Chef (2020), an all-returnee cast competing in Los Angeles and Tuscany, won by Melissa King, who also took Fan-Favorite.
Top Chef: Portland
Top Chef: Portland is Season 18 of Bravo's Top Chef, filmed fall 2020 in Portland, Oregon during COVID-19 with an alumni judge bubble, chef's-table Restaurant Wars, wildfire disruptions, and winner Gabe Erales; aired April 1 to July 1, 2021.
Top Chef: World All-Stars
Top Chef: World All-Stars is Bravo Top Chef's 20th season (2023), the first filmed entirely abroad, in London and Paris, with 16 winners and finalists from 11 international Top Chef versions; Buddha Lo won the $250,000 prize.
Tournament of Champions (TV series)
Tournament of Champions (TOC) is a Food Network cooking competition hosted by Guy Fieri since March 2020, with a single-elimination chef bracket, the Randomizer wheel, and blind judging; women won the first five seasons, with Maneet Chauhan the only two-time champion.
Traditional food
Traditional food, also known as traditional dishes, is food from a particular culture, drawn from local resources and culturally accepted; UNESCO recognizes foodways as intangible cultural heritage.
Two Fat Ladies
Two Fat Ladies (BBC Two, 1996-1999): British cooking-travelogue with Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright touring Britain on a Triumph Thunderbird with sidecar (registration N88 TFL), cooking traditional high-fat British food; ended when Paterson died of lung cancer in 1999.
Ultra-Processed People
Ultra-Processed People (2023) is Chris van Tulleken's nonfiction book arguing that ultra-processed food (UPF), defined by the NOVA system, drives overeating and chronic disease, supported by a month-long self-experiment.
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), American muckraking novelist and socialist activist, author of The Jungle (1906), whose exposé of Chicago meatpacking spurred the 1906 Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts; Pulitzer winner for Dragon's Teeth and 1934 EPIC candidate for California governor.
Wine tasting descriptors
Wine tasting descriptors are the vocabulary for describing wine's appearance, aroma, taste, and mouthfeel, organized by systems such as the WSET SAT, the CMS deductive grid, and Noble's Aroma Wheel.
Worst Cooks in America
Worst Cooks in America is a Food Network reality cooking competition running since 2010, in which bad home cooks or celebrities train in a boot camp; defined by Anne Burrell's long hosting run and post-2025 seasons hosted by Jeff Mauro and Tiffany Derry.
Yashe Talks About Eating
Yashe Talks About Eating (雅舍谈吃) is a 1985 collection of food essays by Chinese essayist Liang Shiqiu, recalling the foods of his youth in old Beiping.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi, Israeli-born London chef and cookbook author, co-founded the Ottolenghi delis with Sami Tamimi in 2002, wrote Jerusalem, Plenty, and Simple, and champions vegetable-forward Middle Eastern cooking.
Youn's Kitchen (윤식당)
Youn's Kitchen (윤식당) is a tvN Korean reality show by Na Young-seok in which celebrities run a pop-up Korean restaurant abroad; seasons aired in Indonesia (2017) and Spain (2018), spawning Youn's Stay and Jinny's Kitchen.
Zagat
Zagat: crowdsourced restaurant survey brand founded in 1979 by Tim and Nina Zagat, known for its 30-point food/decor/service scale, sold to Google in 2011 and to The Infatuation in 2018.
Zermatt Neo
Zermatt Neo is a Singaporean competitive eater and YouTube creator, a former personal trainer and dietitian, ranked No. 1 by Food League Singapore in 2020, known for multi-kilogram hawker-food challenges.