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Beer stein
Beer stein, from German Steinzeugkrug (stoneware tankard): a handled beer vessel, traditionally stoneware, with a hinged pewter lid added under early 1500s covered-container laws. Golden Age 1850-1910; Mettlach led production; Oktoberfest steins remain collectible.
Beer style
Beer style: named beer categories defined by appearance, flavor, strength, and origin; term popularized by Michael Jackson in the 1970s; cataloged by BJCP (2021 guidelines, 34 categories) and Brewers Association.
Beignet
Beignet (French, plural beignets): a fried pastry. In France a batter-coated fritter; in New Orleans a square, holeless fried dough dusted with powdered sugar, Louisiana's official state donut since 1986.
Beijing cuisine (北京菜)
Beijing cuisine (北京菜, jingcai) is Beijing's hybrid cooking style, formed from Shandong, Manchu court, halal and Jiangnan influences; known for roasting, quick-frying and hot-pot techniques, roast duck, and time-honored restaurants like Quanjude and Donglaishun.
Belgian Beer Weekend
The Belgian Beer Weekend is a free-admission beer festival held each September on the Grand-Place in Brussels, first held in 1998 and organized by Belgian Brewers, with about 60,000 visitors a year.
Belgian chocolate
Belgian chocolate: chocolate whose complete mixing, refining, and conching are done in Belgium under the Choprabisco Belgian Chocolate Code. Known for pralines (Neuhaus, Leonidas) and for supplying 20% of world industrial chocolate via Barry Callebaut, Cargill, and Puratos.
Belgian cuisine
Belgian cuisine (cuisine belge, Belgische keuken): the cooking of Belgium, split into Flemish beer-braised and Walloon French-leaning traditions, known for frites, mussels, waffles, chocolate, and UNESCO-recognized beer culture.
Belgian waffle
Belgian waffle, gaufre de Bruxelles or gaufre de Liège: waffle varieties from Belgium. Brussels style is rectangular, light, yeast or egg-white leavened; Liège is dense brioche dough with pearl sugar; the American version is a baking-powder adaptation popularized at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Bellini (cocktail)
Bellini: Venetian sparkling cocktail of white peach purée and Prosecco, invented by Giuseppe Cipriani at Harry's Bar, Venice, in 1948 (Oxford Companion says around 1945), named for painter Giovanni Bellini; IBA Contemporary Classic.
Ben & Jerry's
Ben & Jerry's, founded 1978 by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in Burlington, Vermont, is an ice cream brand with an embedded social mission. Sold to Unilever in 2000 for $326 million with an independent board; now owned by The Magnum Ice Cream Company amid governance disputes.
Ben Cohen (businessman)
Ben Cohen (born 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American businessman who co-founded Ben & Jerry's ice cream with Jerry Greenfield in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, ran it as CEO until 1994, and now campaigns for its independence.
Ben Ford (chef)
Ben Ford (chef), son of Harrison Ford, is an American chef-restaurateur behind Beverly Hills' Chadwick and the 2004 Culver City gastropub Ford's Filling Station; trained at Chez Panisse, he works in wood-fire cooking, consulting, and the American Chef Corps.
Bénédictine
Bénédictine (D.O.M.) is a 40% ABV French herbal liqueur from Fécamp, Normandy, made from 27 secret herbs and spices, created by Alexandre Le Grand in 1863, now owned by Bacardi, and key to the Vieux Carré and Singapore Sling.
Bengal famine of 1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 (পঞ্চাশের মন্বন্তর) was a famine in British India's Bengal province during World War II, killing an estimated 1.5 to 3 million people.
Bengali cuisine
Bengali cuisine, also known as Bengali food or the Cuisine of Bengal, is the culinary tradition of the Bengal region, centered on rice, fish, and mustard oil.
Benihana
Benihana is an American teppanyaki restaurant chain founded in 1964 in New York by Rocky Aoki, known for chefs cooking at the table; owned by The ONE Group since 2024, separate from Benihana of Tokyo.
Bento (弁当)
Bento (弁当, obento) is a Japanese single-portion boxed meal, typically rice with fish or meat and pickled or cooked vegetables, packed to be eaten away from home.
Beodangmal Folk Village
Beodangmal Folk Village (버당말민속촌) is a Korean seafood restaurant in Seongsan-myeon, Gangneung, licensed 1996, known for catfish spicy soup and cod head stew; not a heritage village attraction.
Berliner Weisse
Berliner Weisse is a pale, low-alcohol sour wheat beer from Berlin, fermented with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus brevis, and Brettanomyces bruxellensis; once brewed by 700 Berlin breweries, now revived by craft brewers and served with raspberry or woodruff syrup.
Bernard Loiseau
Bernard Loiseau (1951–2003), French chef of La Côte d'Or in Saulieu; won three Michelin stars in 1991 with his light cuisine of essences, first chef listed on the Paris Bourse, died by suicide in 2003 amid Michelin and GaultMillau rating pressure.
Betel nut chewing
Betel nut chewing: chewing areca nut (betel quid, with betel leaf and lime, often tobacco) by about 600 million people in Asia and the Pacific; areca nut is an IARC Group 1 carcinogen causing oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancer.
Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker is a fictional brand persona and baking brand of General Mills, created in 1921 by Washburn Crosby to answer consumer baking letters; known for cake mixes, the 1950 Picture Cook Book, radio and TV personas, and BettyCrocker.com.
Beurre blanc
Beurre blanc (beurre nantais) is a warm French emulsified butter sauce from the Loire Valley near Nantes: cold butter whisked into a white wine, vinegar, and shallot reduction, without egg yolks, served hot over fish.
Beverage industry
The beverage industry produces and sells non-alcoholic drinks (soft drinks, water, energy drinks) and alcohol (beer, wine, spirits). Distinguished by high concentration: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo control 75% of the world beverage market; US retail sales near $295 billion in 2025.
Beyond Meat
Beyond Meat, Inc. is an American plant-based protein company founded in 2009 by Ethan Brown in El Segundo, California, known for the Beyond Burger and rebranded as Beyond in 2026.
Bhang (भांग)
Bhang (भांग, bhāṅg) is an edible cannabis preparation of ground leaves and flowers, drunk in India in drinks like thandai during Holi and Maha Shivaratri.
Bhel puri
Bhel puri (भेल पूरी), or bhelpuri, is a Mumbai chaat of puffed rice, sev, vegetables, and tamarind, green, and garlic chutneys, with Gujarati-linked origins, wet (geeli) and dry (sukha) variants, and the Kolkata relative jhal muri.
Biangbiang noodles
Biangbiang noodles (𰻝𰻝面, biángbiáng miàn, kudai mian, belt noodles) are belt-wide hand-pulled wheat noodles from Shaanxi's Guanzhong region, named for the slapping sound of the dough and the untypable ~58-stroke biang character, classically served oil-splashed (youpo).
Bibibop Asian Grill
Bibibop Asian Grill is an American fast-casual chain serving customizable Korean-inspired rice bowls from a fully gluten-free kitchen, founded by Charley Shin in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013.
Bibimbap (비빔밥)
Bibimbap (비빔밥), also called goldongban, is a Korean mixed-rice dish of rice, seasoned vegetables, meat, egg, gochujang, and sesame oil; first recorded around 1590, with its recipe in the late 19th-century Siuijeonseo and famous Jeonju and Jinju styles.