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Tostones
Tostones, also patacones or fritos verdes, are twice-fried flattened green plantain discs, a savory staple side across the Caribbean and Latin America, distinct from sweet maduros.
Tournament of Champions (TV series)
Tournament of Champions (TOC) is a Food Network cooking competition hosted by Guy Fieri since March 2020, with a single-elimination chef bracket, the Randomizer wheel, and blind judging; women won the first five seasons, with Maneet Chauhan the only two-time champion.
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's, originally Pronto Markets, is an American grocery chain founded by Joe Coulombe in 1967, known for its roughly 4,000 mostly private-label products at everyday low prices.
Trader Vic's
Trader Vic's is a Polynesian-themed restaurant chain founded by Victor Bergeron, who renamed his Oakland bar Hinky Dinks in 1938. Known for claiming the 1944 Mai Tai and rivaling Don the Beachcomber.
Traditional African beers
Traditional African beers are opaque, sour, low-alcohol beverages made by fermenting sorghum, maize, or millet, known as umqombothi in South Africa and dolo in Burkina Faso.
Traditional food
Traditional food, also known as traditional dishes, is food from a particular culture, drawn from local resources and culturally accepted; UNESCO recognizes foodways as intangible cultural heritage.
Trail mix
Trail mix (also gorp, scroggin, or Studentenfutter) is a portable snack mix of dried fruit, nuts, and often chocolate or granola for hikers; the earliest dated American recipe appears in Horace Kephart's 1906 camping guide.
Trappist beer
Trappist beer: beer brewed under Trappist monk supervision and certified with the ITA's Authentic Trappist Product label; ten abbeys brew it, distinct from abbey beer.
Trdelník
Trdelník, also chimney cake (kürtőskalács), is a Central European spit cake of yeast dough wound on a trdlo roller and roasted hollow; Skalický trdelník won Slovakia's first EU PGI in 2007 and is not originally Czech.
Treacle tart
Treacle tart is a British dessert of shortcrust pastry filled with golden syrup, breadcrumbs, and lemon; earliest recipe Mary Jewry 1879, golden syrup dating from 1885, Harry Potter's favourite dessert.
Trencher (tableware)
Trencher (tableware): a medieval and early modern plate, first a thick slice of coarse bread (French tranchoir), later wood or pewter; also thin decorated English 'posy trenchers' used in sets of twelve at sweet banquets.
Tres leches cake
Tres leches cake (pastel de tres leches, three-milk cake) is a Latin American sponge cake soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk, and whole milk or cream. Origin is disputed between Nicaragua and Mexico; Nestlé canned-milk label recipes popularized it from the 1930s.
Tri-tip
Tri-tip, also called triangle roast, Newport steak, or Santa Maria steak, is a 1.5–3 lb triangular bottom sirloin beef cut (tensor fasciae latae, NAMP 185D), popularized by Santa Maria butcher Bob Schutz in the 1950s and grilled over red oak with salt, pepper, and garlic.
Trifle
Trifle, or Punschtorte, is a British dessert of sponge cake and fruit. Its earliest known recipe appeared in 1596, and it is traditionally served in a glass bowl.
Trileçe
Trileçe (trilece, trileqe) is the Balkan three-milk sponge cake with a caramel top, a phonetic borrowing of Spanish tres leches; earliest documented in a Tirana restaurant in 2005, it spread to Kosovo, North Macedonia and Turkey, peaking there in the mid-2010s.
Trinidad and Tobago cuisine
Trinidad and Tobago cuisine, or Trini food, is a Caribbean fusion of African, Indian, Chinese, European, and Syrian-Lebanese traditions, known for doubles, roti, pelau, curry crab and dumpling, green seasoning, and browning-sugar Creole techniques.
Tripe
Tripe (Italian trippa) is the edible stomach lining of ruminants, chiefly cattle; from the rumen (blanket), reticulum (honeycomb), and omasum. Cooked long, it anchors dishes like flaki, menudo, iskembe, and Italian trippa alla romana.
Tripel
Tripel is a strong golden Belgian abbey ale of 7.5–9.5% ABV, pale malt plus added sugar, dry and well hopped; first commercialized as Witkap Pater (1932) and defined by Westmalle Tripel, distinct from darker dubbel and quadrupel.
Triple sec
Triple sec: generic French category of clear, orange-flavored liqueur, no legal definition; created by Combier (1834), trademarked by Cointreau (1885); key ingredient in Margarita, Sidecar, Cosmopolitan; distinct from sweeter, brandy-based curaçao.
Triple-cooked chips
Triple-cooked chips: thick-cut fried potatoes developed by Heston Blumenthal (c. 1992-1993) using simmering, low-temperature frying at 130°C, and final frying at 180°C for a crisp crust.
Trix (cereal)
Trix is a General Mills fruit-flavored sweetened corn puff cereal introduced in 1954, the first fruit-flavored cereal, known for the Trix Rabbit mascot and the catchphrase "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!"
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Tropical Smoothie Cafe: American fast-casual smoothie and food franchise chain founded in Destin, Florida, in 1997 (first franchise Tallahassee, 1998), about 1,800 U.S. units in 44 states, ~$1M average unit volume, owned by Blackstone since 2024, CEO Max Wetzel.
Tropicana Products
Tropicana Products, also known as Tropicana Brands, is an American fruit-juice company founded by Anthony T. Rossi in Florida in 1947, best known for its chilled not-from-concentrate Pure Premium orange juice.
Truffle oil
Truffle oil is a flavored finishing oil, usually olive oil with synthetic 2,4-dithiapentane rather than real truffles; studies flag mislabeling, marker compounds DMSO and dimethyl sulfone, and heat-sensitive aroma.
Trump Steaks
Trump Steaks was a branded line of steaks, hamburgers, and sausage licensed by Donald Trump and sold through The Sharper Image and QVC, launched in May 2007.
Trump Winery
Trump Winery, near Charlottesville, Virginia, is the former Kluge Estate Winery bought at foreclosure auction in 2011 for $6.2 million; owned by Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, it is Virginia's largest vineyard with 227 acres of vinifera.
Tsingtao Brewery (青岛啤酒)
Tsingtao Brewery (青岛啤酒) is a Chinese brewery founded in Qingdao in 1903 by German and British merchants, described as the world's fifth-largest beer producer and exported to over 100 countries.
Tsipouro
Tsipouro (τσίπουρο), also called tsikoudia in Crete, is a Greek grape pomace spirit, 36-45% ABV, made plain or with anise, protected as an EU geographical indication and drunk with meze.
Tsuen Tea (通圓)
Tsuen Tea (通圓, Tsuen-chaya), founded 1160 at Uji Bridge's east end in Uji, Kyoto, is Japan's oldest tea house, run by the 24th-generation Tsuen family, originally bridge guardians serving tea to travelers.
Tteokbokki (떡볶이)
Tteokbokki (떡볶이), also romanized topokki or ddukbokki, is Korea's signature street food: garae-tteok rice cake sticks simmered in spicy-sweet gochujang sauce, descended from a soy-sauce royal court dish, born modern in Sindang-dong.