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Yule log (cake)
Bûche de Noël (Yule log cake, log cake): French rolled génoise sponge with cream filling, frosted as a wooden log, replacing the burned Christmas Eve Yule log; first recipe printed by Pierre Lacam in 1890.
Yum cha (饮茶)
Yum cha (飲茶, jam2 caa4), Cantonese for "drink tea", is the teahouse custom of eating dim sum with Chinese tea, originating in Qing Guangzhou, transformed in postwar Hong Kong, and spread to Japan and overseas Chinatowns.
Yum yum sauce
Yum yum sauce, also called white sauce or shrimp sauce, is an American mayonnaise-based pink condiment served at Japanese hibachi steakhouses since the 1960s; it is not Japanese in origin. Terry Ho bottled it commercially.
Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, is a Louisville, Kentucky-based fast-food franchisor spun off from PepsiCo in 1997. It owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Habit Burger & Grill, operates over 63,000 restaurants in 155 countries, is over 98% franchised, spun off Yum China in 2016, and sold Pizza Hut for $2.7 billion in 2026.
Yusheng (鱼生)
Yusheng (鱼生), also called yee sang, is a raw fish salad tossed communally (lo hei, 捞起) during Chinese New Year in Singapore and Malaysia; the colorful seven-ingredient version was created by four Singapore chefs in the 1960s.
Za'atar (زعتر)
Za'atar (زعتر) is both a Levantine wild herb, Origanum syriacum (Bible hyssop), and the eponymous spice blend of dried herb, toasted sesame, sumac, and salt, eaten with olive oil on manakish flatbread across Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.
Zabaione
Zabaione, also zabaglione or sabayon, is an Italian foamy custard of egg yolks, sugar, and wine (Marsala, Moscato, or Vin Santo) whisked in a bain-marie, thickening at 82–85 °C; a Piedmont PAT since 2015 with disputed 16th-century origins.
Zagat
Zagat: crowdsourced restaurant survey brand founded in 1979 by Tim and Nina Zagat, known for its 30-point food/decor/service scale, sold to Google in 2011 and to The Infatuation in 2018.
Zatarain's
Zatarain's is a New Orleans-area food brand founded in 1889 by Emile Zatarain, known for rice dinner mixes, seafood boils, and seasonings; owned by McCormick since its 2003 $180 million acquisition.
Zaxby's
Zaxby's is an American fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in chicken fingers and wings. It was founded in 1990 in Statesboro, Georgia, by Zach McLeroy and Tony Townley.
Zeppole
Zeppole (singular zeppola) are Italian fried pastries; the zeppola di San Giuseppe is a choux ring filled with pastry cream and amarena cherry for 19 March. First recipe Cavalcanti 1837; variants in Puglia, Sicily, Rome, and Italian America.
Zermatt Neo
Zermatt Neo is a Singaporean competitive eater and YouTube creator, a former personal trainer and dietitian, ranked No. 1 by Food League Singapore in 2020, known for multi-kilogram hawker-food challenges.
Zev Siegl
Zev Siegl (born 1942) is an American entrepreneur, co-founder of Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle in 1971 with Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker; its first paid employee, vice president until 1980, later startup mentor and speaker.
Zhong Shanshan (钟睒睒)
Zhong Shanshan (钟睒睒), born 1954, is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder of Nongfu Spring (农夫山泉) and controlling shareholder of Beijing Wantai Biological; former journalist, 'lone wolf', China's richest person 2021–2025.
Zima (drink)
Zima (Russian for winter) was Coors's clear, citrus-flavored malt beverage, launched in 1992, peaking at about 1.3 million barrels in 1994, withdrawn in the U.S. in 2008, and revived in limited runs and in Japan.
Zinfandel
Zinfandel, also called Primitivo in Italy and Tribidrag or Crljenak Kastelanski in Croatia, is a red wine grape genetically identical across all three names. It is California's third most planted winegrape, first documented by name in Boston in 1832.
Zobo (drink)
Zobo (zoborodo) is the Nigerian, Hausa-named hibiscus drink made from Hibiscus sabdariffa calyces, spiced with ginger and cloves; also called bissap, sobolo, karkade, sorrel, agua de jamaica; keeps about 24 hours unrefrigerated unless preserved.
Zomato
Zomato, now Eternal Limited, is India's leading food delivery platform founded in 2008 as Foodiebay by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah; IPO 2021, Blinkit acquired 2022, renamed Eternal 2025.
Zombie (cocktail)
Zombie cocktail: 1934 tiki drink by Donn Beach at Don the Beachcomber's, Hollywood; three-rum punch with Don's Mix, falernum, and Pernod; secret coded recipe lost until Jeff Beachbum Berry decoded it in 2007; two-per-customer limit.
Zongzi (粽子)
Zongzi (粽子), also written 糉, is the Chinese glutinous-rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves and eaten at the Dragon Boat Festival; northern versions are sweet, southern savory, with a 2026 Chinese market of about 11.88 billion yuan.
Żubrówka
Żubrówka (Zubrowka) is a Polish bison grass flavored vodka made by Polmos Białystok since 1928, infused with Hierochloë odorata from the Białowieża Forest, sold with a grass blade in each bottle, classically mixed with apple juice as szarlotka, and owned by Maspex since 2021.