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Symposium
The Greek symposium (symposion, "drinking together") was an aristocratic male drinking party held in an andron, with wine mixed with water in a krater, reclining guests, poetry, and games, documented by Plato, Xenophon, and vase paintings.
Sysco
Sysco Corporation, Houston-based foodservice distributor founded by John Baugh in 1969, is the world's largest food-away-from-home distributor with $84.6 billion fiscal 2026 sales, 333 distribution centers, and a pending $29.1 billion acquisition of Jetro Restaurant Depot.
T-bone steak
T-bone steak: short-loin beef cut with T-shaped lumbar vertebra, strip steak and tenderloin on either side; USDA IMPS 1174 requires at least 0.5-inch tenderloin, distinguishing it from the porterhouse (1.25 inches), cut from the rear short loin.
Tab (drink)
TaB (Tab) was The Coca-Cola Company's first diet cola, launched 1963 in Springfield, Massachusetts, named by computer, sweetened with cyclamate then saccharin and aspartame, America's top diet soda until Diet Coke in 1982, discontinued December 31, 2020.
Tabbouleh
Tabbouleh (التبّولة, tabouli) is a Levantine mezze salad of finely chopped parsley, mint, tomato, spring onion, and a small amount of bulgur, dressed with lemon juice and olive oil. Lebanese versions are herb-dominant; origins are contested (Lebanon, Aleppo, al-Andalus).
Tabitha Brown (actress)
Tabitha Brown (born 1979, Eden, North Carolina) is an American actress, Emmy-winning host, and vegan food personality known as "America's Mom," famous for her 2017 TTLA viral video, TikTok fame, Tab Time, It's CompliPlated, Donna's Recipe, and Target and McCormick lines.
Table d'hôte
Table d'hôte ("host's table"): French term for communal fixed-hour, fixed-price inn dining, and in English and Québec French for a fixed-price multi-course set menu, contrasted with à la carte and prix fixe.
Table manners
Table manners: culturally specific expectations for behavior while eating, covering utensils, posture, speech, and hygiene. Acquired by socialization, codified in Europe from the 12th century (Erasmus 1530), and highly variable across cultures.
Table setting
Table setting: the arrangement of dishes, cutlery, glassware, and linens for a meal; place setting, formal vs casual layouts, spacing rules, fork history, service à la russe, and 2025 trends.
Tableware
Tableware is the dishes, glassware, and flatware used at meals. Covers ceramic, glass, melamine, and steel materials, commercial cost-per-use, lead and cadmium limits, history, and cultural roles.
Taco
Taco: Mexican dish of a folded or rolled corn or flour tortilla around meat, beans, or salsa; varieties include al pastor, carnitas, and tacos de minero; distinct from the fried Tex-Mex hard-shell taco.
Taco Bell chihuahua
The Taco Bell chihuahua, known for "Yo quiero Taco Bell," was a 1997-2000 TBWA/Chiat/Day advertising mascot played by the dog Gidget; it spawned a $42 million lawsuit by the creators of Psycho Chihuahua and ended in July 2000.
Taco Tuesday
Taco Tuesday is the American custom of Tuesday taco promotions, formerly trademarked by Taco John's (49 states, 1989) and Gregory's (New Jersey) until Taco Bell's 2023 cancellation campaign freed the phrase.
Taffy (candy)
Taffy (candy): a chewy cooked-sugar confection aerated by repeated stretching and folding; salt water taffy is its Atlantic City, New Jersey, boardwalk variant from about 1880, not made with ocean water.
Tahini
Tahini (ṭaḥīna, طحينة; Hebrew t'khiná), also called tahina or sesame butter, is a paste of toasted ground hulled sesame from the Middle East, used in hummus, baba ghanoush, taratoor and halva; energy-dense, over 80% fat.
Taiwanese cuisine
Taiwanese cuisine (臺灣菜, 臺灣料理) is Taiwan's culinary tradition blending Indigenous, Hokkien, Hakka, Japanese, and post-1945 mainland Chinese influences; the concept emerged as elite banquet food under Japanese colonial rule and was reshaped by migration, democratization, and global fame.
Taiyaki (たい焼き)
Taiyaki (たい焼き) is a Japanese sea-bream-shaped baked wheat confection filled with anko, derived from imagawayaki in the Meiji era; attributed to Naniwaya Sohonten (1909, Tokyo), founder Kanbe Seijiro, with tennen (single-mold) versus yoshoku (mass-produced) styles and the Korean relative bungeoppang.
Take-out
Take-out, also known as takeaway or carryout, is food prepared by a restaurant to be eaten elsewhere, usually at home, together with delivery and drive-thru.
Takeru Kobayashi (小林 尊)
Takeru Kobayashi (小林 尊), born 1978 in Nagano, is a retired Japanese competitive eater, six-time Nathan's hot dog contest champion (2001–2006), innovator of the Kobayashi shake, and Netflix rival of Joey Chestnut.
Takis (snack)
Takis are rolled corn tortilla chips made by Barcel of Grupo Bimbo, introduced in Mexico in 1999, with chili-lime Fuego (2006) as flagship; known for intense seasoning, US entry 2001, and 2026 removal of artificial colors and TBHQ.
Takoyaki (たこ焼き)
Takoyaki (たこ焼き), grilled octopus balls, is an Osaka street food invented in 1935 by Aizuya's Endo Tomekichi from rajioyaki; batter with dashi, egg, octopus, and tenkasu, cooked in a dimpled griddle, topped with sauce and mayonnaise.
Tamago Sando
Tamago Sando is a Japanese egg salad sandwich made with creamy mashed eggs and soft shokupan. It is a standard convenience store item that has gained international popularity.
Tamagoyaki (卵焼き)
Tamagoyaki (卵焼き), Japanese rolled omelette also called atsuyaki tamago or dashimaki tamago: beaten seasoned egg fried in thin layers and rolled in a rectangular pan; Kanto style is sweet, Kansai style dashi-based.
Tamarind seed polysaccharide
Tamarind seed polysaccharide (TSP, tamarind gum, tamarind xyloglucan) is a galactoxyloglucan hydrocolloid from Tamarindus indica seeds, GRAS (GRN 503, 2014), used as thickener, stabilizer, and mucoadhesive ophthalmic excipient.
Tamasin Day-Lewis
Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953, Greenwich, London) is a British food writer, chef, and former documentary filmmaker; daughter of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, sister of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, author of 12 cookery books and Telegraph food columnist.
Tamil cuisine
Tamil cuisine: food of Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka's Tamil north and east, and the global Tamil diaspora. Rice- and tamarind-based, documented in Sangam literature, with banana-leaf meals, tiffin, Chettinad, and strong vegetarian and meat traditions.
Tandoor
Tandoor (Hindi/Urdu tandūr, from Arabic tannūr) is a cylindrical clay oven fired from within, used across South and Central Asia to bake naan and roast meats.
Tandoori chicken
Tandoori chicken (तंदूरी चिकन): yogurt-and-spice-marinated chicken roasted in a charcoal-fired clay tandoor; a Punjabi dish popularized by Moti Mahal in post-1947 Delhi, with disputed credit between Kundan Lal Gujral and Kundan Lal Jaggi.
Tanghulu (糖葫芦)
Tanghulu (糖葫芦, bingtanghulu) is a Chinese winter street snack of fruit, classically hawthorn, skewered and dipped in sugar syrup cooked to the hard-crack stage (~300°F), forming a glassy shell; Song-dynasty origin, cariogenic like jam, viral on TikTok with burn warnings.
Tangyuan (汤圆) (food)
Tangyuan (汤圆), also called fuyuanzi or tangtuan, is a Chinese glutinous rice ball with sweet or savory filling, boiled and served in soup, the signature Lantern Festival food; southern tangyuan is wrapped from wet dough, unlike northern rolled yuanxiao.