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The Wine Advocate
The Wine Advocate, also Robert Parker Wine Advocate, is a fine-wine review publication founded by Robert Parker Jr. in 1978, known for its 50–100 point scale, peer-group tastings, and measurable influence on Bordeaux en primeur prices.
The World's 50 Best Restaurants
The World's 50 Best Restaurants (now The 50 Best Restaurants) is an annual fine-dining ranking founded in 2002 by Restaurant magazine, published by William Reed, voted by a 1,100-plus expert Academy in 28 regions, adjudicated by Deloitte.
Theme restaurant
Theme restaurant: a dining venue built around a distinctive theme in décor, menu, and entertainment; traced to Montmartre cafés, popularized in 1920s Los Angeles, named only since the 1970s.
Thermomix
Thermomix, sold as Bimby in some southern European markets, is Vorwerk's countertop all-in-one appliance that weighs, chops, kneads, heats, steams, and cooks; current model TM7 (2025), €1,549, sold via direct sales and online.
Thickening agent
Thickening agent (food thickener, hydrocolloid): a food additive that increases a food's viscosity. Key types: starch, xanthan gum, guar gum, pectin, gelatin, carrageenan; defined by Codex, used in sauces and dysphagia diets.
Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller (born 1955) is an American chef-restaurateur of The French Laundry and Per Se, the first and only American-born chef with multiple three-star Michelin restaurants, 2017 Bocuse d'Or gold team leader, Legion of Honor Chevalier, and author of six cookbooks.
Thousand Island dressing
Thousand Island dressing is a creamy American condiment of mayonnaise, ketchup, and pickles, named after the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River; competing origin stories credit Sophia LaLonde of Clayton, NY, chef Theo Rooms of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, and Waldorf-Astoria maitre d' Oscar Tschirky.
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%.
Three Sisters (agriculture)
Three Sisters agriculture: Indigenous American intercropping of maize, climbing beans, and squash, also called Diohe'ko by the Haudenosaunee; corn supports beans, beans fix nitrogen, squash shades soil; adopted in North America by 1070 AD.
Tia Maria
Tia Maria is a 20% ABV coffee liqueur built on Jamaican rum, vanilla, and Arabica coffee; now a cold brew product owned by Illva Saronno, famous for its origin legend and its central role in the Espresso Martini alongside rival Kahlúa.
Tibetan cuisine
Tibetan cuisine (藏餐) is the food culture of the Tibetan Plateau, centered on tsampa roasted barley flour, yak meat and dairy, butter tea, thukpa noodle soup, and momos, distinct from neighboring Sichuan, Indian, and Nepali cuisines.
Tic Tac
Tic Tac is Ferrero's pill-shaped breath mint and candy brand, launched in 1969 with the iconic flip-top dispenser; made from layered sugar with Piedmont mint, sold in over 70 countries.
Tieguanyin (铁观音)
Tieguanyin (铁观音), also Iron Goddess of Mercy, is a semi-oxidized oolong tea and tea cultivar from Xiping, Anxi County, Fujian, China; known for orchid aroma, "Guanyin rhyme" flavor, three aroma styles, EU PGI and intangible heritage status, and Taiwan Muzha descendant.
Tiens Group (天狮集团)
Tiens Group (天狮集团), Chinese health products and direct selling conglomerate founded by Li Jinyuan in Tianjin; licensed entity 天津天狮生物工程有限公司 licensed 2011, claims 224 countries and 117 branches, with legal disputes over fake "Tianjin Tianshi" pyramid groups.
Tiffani Faison
Tiffani Faison is an American chef and restaurateur based in Boston, known nationally for finishing runner-up on the first season of Top Chef in 2006 and owning Big Heart Hospitality.
Tiffin
Tiffin: Anglo-Indian word for a light midday meal, snack, or afternoon tea; also the stacked steel lunch carrier and, in Mumbai, the dabbawala-delivered packed lunch. South Indian tiffin rooms serve dosas, idli, and filter coffee.
Tiki bar
Tiki bar: Polynesian-themed American bar serving rum cocktails like the Mai Tai and Zombie, founded by Donn Beach in 1930s Hollywood, expanded by Trader Vic's, peaked in the 1960s, revived since the late 1990s amid cultural appropriation debates.
Tilly Ramsay
Tilly Ramsay (Matilda Elizabeth Ramsay, born 2001) is an English TV presenter, cook, and influencer, daughter of Gordon Ramsay; known for CBBC's Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch, Strictly 2021, MasterChef Junior judging, and Prime Video's Dish It Out.
Tilman Fertitta
Tilman J. Fertitta (born 1957), Houston billionaire, sole owner of Fertitta Entertainment: Landry's restaurants (600+ properties), Golden Nugget casinos, Houston Rockets, Connecticut Sun purchase, and 2026 Caesars acquisition; U.S. ambassador to Italy.
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons, known as Timmy's or Timmies, is a Canadian quick-service restaurant chain selling coffee, baked goods, and light meals, founded in Hamilton, Ontario in 1964.
Tim Martin (businessman)
Tim Martin (Timothy Randall Martin, born 1955) is the British founder and chairman of J D Wetherspoon, founded 1979 in Muswell Hill; knighted 2024 and a prominent pro-Brexit campaigner.
Tim Tam
Tim Tam is a chocolate biscuit made by Arnott's. Created in 1964, it consists of two chocolate-malted layers with a cream filling, famous for the Tim Tam Slam ritual.
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.
Tiramisu
Tiramisu (tiramisù, tiramesù) is a chilled Italian dessert of coffee-soaked savoiardi layered with mascarpone, egg, and sugar cream, dusted with cocoa. Codified at Le Beccherie in Treviso in the early 1970s; recipe deposited by the Accademia Italiana della Cucina.
Tito's Vodka
Tito's Handmade Vodka is a corn-based, pot-still-distilled vodka by Fifth Generation, Inc. of Austin, Texas, founded by Bert "Tito" Beveridge, holder of the first legal Texas distillery permit (1995) and the top-selling U.S. vodka brand.
Tlayuda
Tlayuda (clayuda): Oaxaca's signature street food, a 30–40 cm leathery corn tortilla from Bolita maize spread with asiento, black beans, quesillo, and tasajo; name disputed between Nahuatl tlao-li and Spanish talludo, UNESCO-linked since 2010.
Toad in the hole
Toad in the hole: traditional British dish of sausages baked in Yorkshire-pudding batter (eggs, milk, flour), served with onion gravy; name first recorded in Grose's 1787 Provincial Glossary.
Toast
Toast: sliced bread browned by dry heat via the Maillard reaction; also the drinking ritual from spiced toast floated in wine. Covers etymology, chemistry, nutrition, and toasting traditions.
Toast (honor)
Toast (honor): a spoken tribute with raised glasses honoring a person or sentiment. Word comes from spiced toast placed in wine; drinking sense attested 1690s; poison-clinking story apocryphal.
Toast sandwich
Toast sandwich: a Victorian sandwich of thin cold toast between two slices of bread-and-butter with pepper and salt, from the invalid cookery chapter of Isabella Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management.