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Rockstar (drink)
Rockstar (drink), also known as Rockstar energy, is an American energy drink brand founded in 2001. It is currently owned by Celsius Holdings in the U.S. and Canada.
Rocky Aoki (青木廣彰)
Rocky Aoki (青木廣彰, Hiroaki Aoki, 1938–2008), Japanese-born American restaurateur, wrestler, and adventurer; founded Benihana in New York in 1964, popularizing teppanyaki performance dining; father of Steve and Devon Aoki.
Rocky Mountain oysters
Rocky Mountain oysters, also called prairie oysters or calf fries (French animelles), are breaded, deep-fried bull or calf testicles, a Western North American ranching dish, not seafood, served with dipping sauce and celebrated at testicle festivals.
Rocky road (ice cream)
Rocky road ice cream: American flavor of chocolate ice cream with marshmallows and nuts (almonds standard, walnuts original), dated to 1929 Oakland with disputed Dreyer's versus Fentons origin claims; ninth most popular US flavor.
Rodízio
Rodízio: Brazilian fixed-price restaurant service where dishes, especially grilled meats on skewers (espeto corrido), are brought table to table in rotation. Created in Brazil in the mid-1960s with disputed authorship; also names São Paulo's vehicle restriction system.
Rogan josh
Rogan josh (रोगन जोश) is a Kashmiri lamb or mutton curry brought by the Mughals, named from Persian rogan (oil) and josh (heat), colored red by Kashmiri chillies, mawal flower, or ratan jot, with distinct Pandit and Muslim versions.
Rohan Oza
Rohan Oza (born 1972, Zambia) is a consumer-brand investor, co-founder of CAVU Consumer Partners, and Shark Tank guest shark who built Vitaminwater and Smartwater at Glacéau, sold Bai for $1.7 billion, and led Poppi's $1.95 billion sale to PepsiCo in 2025.
Rojak
Rojak (rujak in Indonesia) is a Southeast Asian mixed fruit-and-vegetable salad with fermented prawn paste sauce, from Malay "mixture"; variants include Chinese, Malay, Indian (pasembur), and Penang rojak, attested in Java since 901 CE.
Romanée-Conti
Romanée-Conti: 1.81-hectare Grand Cru monopole in Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy, planted with Pinot Noir, owned by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC), producing about 6,000 bottles yearly and holding the wine auction record.
Romanian cuisine
Romanian cuisine, also called bucătăria românească, is a hearty Balkan-Central European cooking tradition: sarmale, mici, mămăligă, ciorbă, shaped by Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Slavic influences, with seasonal preservation and protected products like Salam de Sibiu.
Romesco
Romesco is a cold Catalan sauce from Tarragona's Serrallo fishermen, made with nyora peppers, roasted tomato, garlic, almonds, hazelnuts, bread, oil, and vinegar; also a fish dish, kin to salvitxada and xató sauce.
Ronald Burkle
Ronald (Ron) Burkle, American billionaire investor, founder of The Yucaipa Companies (1986); supermarket buyouts (Fred Meyer, Ralphs, Dominick's, Pathmark), Clinton fundraiser, stakes in Soho House, Penguins, Uber, Airbnb; net worth about $3.3-3.9 billion in 2026.
Ronald McDonald
Ronald McDonald, also known in Japan as Donald McDonald, is the clown mascot of McDonald's, created in 1963 and first played by Willard Scott; named national spokesman in 1966, he faded from advertising after 2016 clown-sighting fears and health criticism.
Rooh Afza (روح افزا)
Rooh Afza (روح افزا), the soul refresher, is a rose-flavored sherbet concentrate created in 1907 in Old Delhi by Unani practitioner Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed, now made by three independent Hamdard firms in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and central to Ramadan iftar.
Rooibos
Rooibos (red bush) is a caffeine-free South African herbal tea from Aspalathus linearis, endemic to the Cederberg; sold fermented (red) and unfermented (green), rich in aspalathin, with limited human health evidence.
Root beer
Root beer is a sweetened American carbonated soft drink flavored primarily with sassafras, plus sarsaparilla, vanilla, and wintergreen; commercial versions use artificial or safrole-free flavoring since the FDA's 1960 safrole ban.
Ropa vieja
Ropa vieja, "old clothes" in Spanish, is Cuba's national dish of shredded beef braised in tomato sofrito with peppers, onions, olives, and capers, tracing to Canary Island and Sephardic Spanish cooking.
Roquefort
Roquefort: French blue-veined PDO cheese from raw Lacaune sheep's milk, ripened in the Combalou caves at Roquefort-sur-Soulzon with Penicillium roqueforti; France's first cheese appellation (1925), distinct mold population from all other blue cheeses.
Rosé
Rosé is a pink wine made from dark-skinned grapes with limited skin contact, via direct pressing, short maceration, saignée, or (in Champagne) blending; no precise legal definition exists, and Provence sets the pale dry benchmark.
Rose water
Rose water (Persian golāb, gulab jal) is the fragrant hydrosol from steam-distilled rose petals, chiefly Rosa damascena. Used in sherbets, sweets, skincare, and religious rites; famed Qamsar production; rose oil discovered from it in 1611.
Rosemary Shrager
Rosemary Shrager (born 1951) is a self-taught British chef, cookery teacher, and TV personality of Ladette to Lady, I'm a Celebrity 2012, and The Big Family Cooking Showdown, who ran cookery schools at Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Swinton Park, and Tunbridge Wells.
Roti (रोटी)
Roti (रोटी), also called chapati or phulka, is an unleavened whole wheat flatbread cooked on a tawa and eaten across South Asia with dal and curries; distinct from layered paratha and leavened tandoor naan, with 30-plus regional varieties and diaspora forms.
Roti canai
Roti canai, called roti prata in Singapore, is a Malaysian flaky griddled flatbread descended from South Indian parotta, brought by Indian-Muslim migrants to Penang in the 19th century, ranked first bread in the world by TasteAtlas in 2023.
Rotisserie
Rotisserie (spit roasting): cooking meat skewered on a rotating spit, or spit, over a heat source so it self-bastes; historically turned by servants, turnspit dogs, smoke jacks, and clockwork, now motorized.
Round steak
Round steak is lean beef cut from the round (hind-leg) primal, covering top round (IMPS 1169), bottom round (1170A), eye of round, and sirloin tip steaks. Shear force 9.7 to 11.7 pounds, best cooked moist or low-and-slow, and cooked to 145 degrees F with a 3-minute rest.
Roux
Roux is a cooked paste of equal parts flour and fat used to thicken sauces, soups, and stews; white, blond, brown, and Cajun-dark versions underpin béchamel, velouté, espagnole, and gumbo.
Rowntree's
Rowntree's, British confectionery company of York founded 1862 by Henry Isaac Rowntree; maker of KitKat, Smarties, Fruit Pastilles, Aero, After Eight; merged with Mackintosh 1969, acquired by Nestlé in 1988 for £2.5 billion.
Roy Choi
Roy Choi, Korean American chef born in Seoul and raised in Los Angeles, co-founded the Kogi BBQ food truck in 2008, pioneering Korean-Mexican fusion tacos and the gourmet food truck movement; restaurants include Chego!, LocoL, and Best Friend at Park MGM.
Roy Rogers Restaurants
Roy Rogers Restaurants is a Mid-Atlantic fast-food chain founded by Marriott in 1968, named for the cowboy actor, known for its Fixin's Bar and burgers, fried chicken, and roast beef; owned by the Plamondon family since 2002 with about 40 locations.
Royal Stag
Royal Stag (Seagram's Royal Stag), Indian blended whisky launched 1995 by Seagram, Pernod Ricard since 2001; blend of Scotch malts and Indian grain spirits, no artificial flavourings; world's largest-selling whisky, 32.6m cases in 2025.