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Barley wine
Barley wine (Barley Wine, UK spelling) is a very strong top-fermented ale, 8-12% ABV, named for wine-like strength; English and American variants, first named for Bass No. 1, aged like wine.
Barolo
Barolo: Piedmont's flagship DOCG red wine, made only from Nebbiolo in 11 Langhe communes near Alba; aged at least 38 months, famed as "the king of wines" and distinct from Barbaresco.
Baron Ambrosia
Baron Ambrosia is a fictional character created by filmmaker Justin Fornal. He stars in the BronxNet show Bronx Flavor, which ran for 34 episodes starting in 2008.
Barossa Valley
Barossa Valley: wine region (GI) north-east of Adelaide, South Australia, part of the Barossa zone with Eden Valley; famed for full-bodied Shiraz from vines dating to 1843, Old Vine Charter, and 53,593-tonne 2025 crush.
Barq's
Barq's is a caffeinated American root beer created by Edward C. Barq, Sr. in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1898 at the Biloxi Artesian Bottling Works, franchised widely by 1950, and purchased by Coca-Cola in 1995.
Barrel-aged beer
Barrel-aged beer is beer matured in wooden barrels, typically used bourbon or wine barrels, so the wood and its previous contents flavor the beer before packaging.
Bartender
Bartender: a worker who mixes and serves drinks at bars, restaurants, and hotels. Also called mixologist. About 762,600 U.S. jobs, median $16.51/hour (May 2025), no formal education required, on-the-job training plus state alcohol-server certification.
Bartending equipment and bar setup
Bartending equipment and bar setup covers the hand tools, glassware, ice handling, and workstation organization behind a commercial bar, including shakers, jiggers, sink requirements, and standard bar dimensions.
Bartending terminology
Bartending terminology: bar vocabulary for serving (neat, up, on the rocks), mixing (shaken, stirred, dry shake, muddling), and service slang (86). Covers ambiguous straight up, IBA standardization since 1961, the 1806 cocktail definition, and zero-proof naming shifts.
Basil Hayden's
Basil Hayden's (Basil Hayden since 2022) is an 80-proof Kentucky straight bourbon launched by Booker Noe in 1992 as the lightest member of Jim Beam's Small Batch Collection, using the 63% corn, 27% rye Old Grand-Dad mashbill, named for pioneer distiller Meredith Basil Hayden Sr.
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins, also branded "31 Flavors," is an American ice cream specialty shop chain founded in 1945 in Glendale, California, by brothers-in-law Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, known for the 31-flavors concept and global franchising.
Basque cuisine
Basque cuisine (Euskal sukaldaritza, cocina vasca) is the cooking of the Basque Country, Spain/France: pintxos, txokos, cod and four sauces, New Basque Cuisine from 1977 led by Arzak and Subijana, and the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastián.
Bass Brewery
Bass Brewery, founded by William Bass in Burton upon Trent in 1777 as Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton, made the famous Bass Pale Ale, registered the UK's first trade mark (the red triangle, 1876), and is now an AB InBev brand brewed under contract at Burton.
Battenberg cake
Battenberg cake, also spelled Battenburg, is a British teatime cake of pink and yellow sponge joined with apricot jam to show a chequered slice, wrapped in marzipan.
Batter (cooking)
Batter (cooking): a semifluid flour-based mixture of flour, liquid, and often eggs, used for pancakes, cakes, and as a frying coating; distinct from dough by its higher water content.
Baumkuchen
Baumkuchen (バウムクーヘン), German "tree cake," is a layered spit-roasted cake with tree-ring cross-section. Introduced to Japan by WWI POW Karl Juchheim in 1919, it symbolizes longevity there; Salzwedel Baumkuchen holds an EU PGI.
Bavarian cream
Bavarian cream (crème bavaroise, Bayerische Creme, Bavarois): a gelatin-set vanilla custard lightened with whipped cream, molded and unmolded; origin disputed between Bavaria and France, codified by Carême as fromage bavarois.
Bavarian cuisine
Bavarian cuisine (Bayerische Küche) is the cooking tradition of Bavaria, Germany's largest state, built on pork, potatoes, flour, and dairy and divided into regional cuisines of Altbayern, Franconia, and Swabia.
Bawls
Bawls Guarana, a highly caffeinated guarana soda launched by Hoby Buppert in Miami Beach in November 1996, sold in a cobalt-blue bumpy bottle with 64 mg caffeine per 10 oz, a 2000s LAN-party and QuakeCon gamer staple.
Bazaar
A bazaar, also known as a souq (بازار), is a clustered marketplace of shops and stalls central to commerce and social life in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.
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.
Béarnaise sauce
Sauce béarnaise (béarnaise sauce), also called la béarnaise: a warm French emulsified sauce of clarified butter, egg yolks, shallot-vinegar reduction and tarragon, derived from hollandaise, served with grilled meats and fish, attributed to Collinet in 1830s Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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.
Beaujolais
Beaujolais, also known as Beaujolais wine, is a French wine region and appellation north of Lyon, producing wines almost entirely from the gamay grape, including the young Beaujolais Nouveau.
Beaujolais nouveau
Beaujolais nouveau, a French vin primeur from Gamay under the Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages appellations, released worldwide the third Thursday of November since a 1985 decree; made by semi-carbonic maceration and promoted globally by Georges Duboeuf.
Becherovka
Becherovka is a Czech herbal liqueur from Karlovy Vary, 38% ABV, made since 1807 from a secret recipe of about 20 herbs and spices; known for the Beton cocktail and KV14 offshoot.
Bed and breakfast
Bed and breakfast (B&B): small, typically owner-occupied lodging offering overnight accommodation plus breakfast, with 2–10 guest rooms. Differs from guesthouses and hotels by domestic scale and host residence; definitions, grading, and regulation vary by jurisdiction.
Beef
Beef is meat from full-grown cattle about 2 years old, from Bos taurus and Bos indicus descended from the aurochs. Produced in extensive grazing and grain-fed feedlot systems; the U.S. is the largest producer and consumer, and beef has the highest carbon footprint per unit of protein.
Beef bourguignon
Beef bourguignon (bœuf bourguignon, boeuf à la bourguignonne, beef Burgundy) is a French stew of beef braised in red Burgundy wine with lardons, pearl onions, and mushrooms; first recorded in 1867, codified by Escoffier in 1903, and popularized in America by Julia Child in 1961.
Beef cheek
Beef cheek (ox cheek, cheek meat) is the masseter jaw muscle of the cow, a dark, collagen-rich secondary cut, roughly twice the collagen of chuck roast, made tender by long braising, sous-vide, or pressure cooking into gelatinous barbacoa or carbonnade.