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Boiled egg
Boiled egg: an egg cooked in its shell in hot water, soft-boiled (runny yolk) or hard-boiled (solid yolk). Best simmered at 80–85°C rather than boiled; peeling depends on egg age and pH.
Boilermaker (beer cocktail)
Boilermaker: North American beer-and-shot drink, a whiskey shot served with or dropped into beer; also called Depth Charge. Named for 1930s "Boilermaker and His Helper"; classic build is 1 oz whiskey with 8 oz beer.
Bologna sausage
Bologna sausage (also baloney; Hungarian párizsi) is a cooked, emulsion-type sausage in large casings, descended from mortadella of Bologna, Italy; US-regulated like frankfurters, made of beef, pork, or poultry.
Bolognese sauce
Bolognese sauce, or ragù alla bolognese, is Bologna's slow-simmered meat sauce: minced beef and pancetta with soffritto, a little tomato, wine, and milk. Official Accademia recipes date to 1982 and 2023; served with tagliatelle, not spaghetti.
Bombay Sapphire
Bombay Sapphire is a Bacardi-owned London dry gin launched in 1987 by IDV, sold in a blue bottle, made by vapour infusion of ten botanicals at Laverstoke Mill, Hampshire; about 4.3 million cases sold in 2025.
Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit is an American food magazine founded in 1956, owned by Condé Nast since 1993, known for its test kitchen recipes, its 2020 workplace controversy, and a print schedule of at least six seasonal issues a year.
Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855
The 1855 Bordeaux classification (Grands Crus Classés en 1855) ranks 61 Médoc red estates in five growths plus Haut-Brion, and 27 Sauternes-Barsac sweet whites in three tiers, by broker price records for Napoleon III's 1855 Paris Exposition; only Cantemerle (1855) and Mouton Rothschild (1973) changed.
Börek
Börek (burek, byrek) is a family of filled yufka or phyllo pastries from the Ottoman culinary sphere, with cheese, meat, or spinach fillings; regional names and shapes differ across Turkey, the Balkans, and beyond.
Borscht (Борщ)
Borscht (борщ) is a family of Eastern European sour soups built on beetroot, with hot red, green, cold, and white variants across Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia; UNESCO inscribed Ukrainian borscht cooking for urgent safeguarding in 2022.
Boston Beer Company
The Boston Beer Company (NYSE: SAM), founded in Boston in 1984 by Jim Koch and partners, brews Samuel Adams Boston Lager plus Twisted Tea, Truly, Angry Orchard, Dogfish Head, and Sun Cruiser, with major breweries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Delaware.
Boston cream pie
Boston cream pie is a sponge cake, not a pie: two cake layers with pastry cream and chocolate glaze, created at Boston's Omni Parker House around 1856-1865 and Massachusetts' official state dessert since 1996.
Boston Market
Boston Market, originally Boston Chicken, is an American fast-casual rotisserie chicken chain founded in Newton, Massachusetts in 1985, which peaked above 1,200 locations, went through McDonald's and Sun Capital ownership, and shrank to about two dozen stores under Jay Pandya.
Boston Pizza
Boston Pizza is a Canadian casual-dining and sports bar chain founded in Edmonton in 1964 by Gus Agioritis, acquired by Jim Treliving and George Melville in 1983, with 374 Canadian locations and a TSX-listed royalty fund.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party: December 16, 1773 protest at Griffin's Wharf, Boston Harbor, where colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea from the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver to oppose the Tea Act monopoly, prompting the Intolerable Acts.
Bottarga
Bottarga (avgotaracho, karasumi, batarekh) is salted, pressed, air-dried fish roe, usually grey mullet or tuna, used grated as a Mediterranean seasoning; Sardinia leads production, with Greek PDO avgotaracho and Japanese karasumi as equivalents.
Bottled in bond
Bottled in bond, or bonded whiskey, is a US legal designation from the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897: one distiller, one season, four years aged, 100 proof, water only, government-supervised bonded warehouse.
Bottled water
Bottled water, or packaged drinking water, is water sealed in containers for sale, sourced from springs, wells, mineral aquifers, or municipal tap water. Key facts: FDA 250 ppm TDS mineral-water definition, ozone disinfection, USD 285 billion 2020 market, 92-100% microplastic detection.
Boudin
Boudin is a type of sausage with two distinct uses. In France, it is a cooked charcuterie preparation, while in Louisiana, it is a seasoned link of pork and rice.
Bouillabaisse
Bouillabaisse: Marseille's Provençal rock-fish stew, from Provençal boui-abaisso ("when it boils, lower the heat"), served as saffron broth with rouille and croutons, then fish cut at table; governed since 1980 by a 17-signatory charter requiring at least 4 fish species.
Bouillon cube
Bouillon cube, also stock or broth cube, dehydrated broth in about 4 g cubes; invented by Julius Maggi in 1908 using hydrolyzed vegetable protein; followed by OXO and Knorr; high in salt, used worldwide.
Bourbon whiskey
Bourbon whiskey: American whiskey of at least 51% corn, distilled to 160 proof or less and aged in new charred oak; also called Kentucky straight bourbon. Key facts: US-only name, 95% made in Kentucky, sour mash process, ~16 million barrels aging, $10.6 billion industry.
Boursin cheese
Boursin cheese, a French fresh cow's milk spread also called Gournay cheese, created by François Boursin in Normandy; Garlic & Fine Herbs launched 1963, famous for "Du pain, du vin, du Boursin," now owned by Bel Group.
Bovril
Bovril, the British beef and yeast extract paste created by John Lawson Johnston as Johnston's Fluid Beef around the 1870s French army beef contract, renamed in 1886; made as a hot drink, spread, and stock, briefly vegetarian 2004-2006, now a Unilever brand made in Burton on Trent.
Boza
Boza: thick, lightly fermented cereal drink of Turkey and the Balkans (braga, busa), made from millet, wheat, or maize; sweet-sour, pH 3.16–4.63, alcohol 0.03–0.79%, served in winter with cinnamon and roasted chickpeas.
Brad Leone
Brad Leone (born 1985) is an American chef and YouTube personality, former Bon Appétit test kitchen manager and host of the fermentation series It's Alive, now running his own channel, Makin' It! and Local Legends, and author of Field Notes for Food Adventure.
Braising
Braising (French braiser, from "ember") is a combination cooking method: sear food, then cook it covered in a small amount of liquid, partway up the food, until collagen converts to gelatin and tough cuts turn fork-tender.
Brandy
Brandy, from Dutch brandewijn (burned wine), is a spirit distilled from fermented fruit juice or wine, most often grapes; includes Cognac, Armagnac, calvados, grappa, and pisco, with legal standards on distillation strength, aging, and bottling.
Brandy Alexander
Brandy Alexander: classic dessert cocktail of cognac, dark crème de cacao, and cream in equal parts, shaken and topped with grated nutmeg; brandy variant of the gin Alexander, an IBA Unforgettable.
Branston (brand)
Branston (brand) covers two unrelated British food brands: Branston Pickle, a sweet brown vegetable relish first made by Crosse & Blackwell in 1922, now owned by Mizkan Euro, and Branston Ltd, the Lincolnshire potato supplier founded in 1968.
Brass Monkey (cocktail)
Brass Monkey cocktail: an American drink of dark rum, vodka, and orange juice, also a 1970s-80s Heublein premix and the Beastie Boys' 1986 Licensed to Ill song subject; distinct from the malt-liquor-and-OJ version and the cold-weather slang.