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Brasserie
Brasserie: French word literally meaning brewery; since the 19th century also a large café-restaurant with continuous service, broad menu, and Art deco decor, born from Alsatian breweries in Paris.
Brasserie Les Halles
Brasserie Les Halles, a French brasserie at 411 Park Avenue South, Manhattan, founded 1990 by Jose de Meirelles, Philippe Lajaunie, and Jean-Michel Diot; Anthony Bourdain was executive chef from 1998 and wrote Kitchen Confidential there; Park Avenue location closed 2016, last location 2017, site reopened as La Brasserie in 2022.
Bratwurst
Bratwurst (German: Bratwurst) is a fresh German sausage of ground pork and veal with marjoram, grilled or fried. Nearly 50 regional varieties; earliest German record 1404 in Arnstadt; Nürnberger type is EU-protected.
Braunschweiger (sausage)
Braunschweiger: a German-origin sausage named for Braunschweig. In Germany a spreadable smoked Mettwurst, in Austria a Brühwurst called Dürre, and in the US a cooked smoked liver sausage with at least 30 percent liver.
Brazier
Brazier: a receptacle for holding burning coals, used for heating rooms or cooking, from French brasier (1680s); also a kitchen term for a wide shallow braising pan (rondeau).
Brazilian cuisine
Brazilian cuisine: the cooking traditions of Brazil, formed from indigenous, African and Portuguese foodways. Not one cuisine but regional kitchens: feijoada in Rio, acarajé and dendê-oil moqueca in Bahia, churrasco and picanha in the South.
Bread pudding
Bread pudding: a baked dish of bread soaked in egg, milk, and sugar custard, dating to 11th-century England as 'poor man's pudding'. Also called bread and butter pudding in Britain, with regional forms like capirotada, Wet Nelly, and pudín de pan.
Bread roll
Bread roll: small round or oblong yeast-dough bread, also called bun, bap, cob, barm, or teacake in Britain. Needs strong flour and careful shaping; faster to prove and bake than a loaf.
Breadfruit flour
Breadfruit flour, milled from dried Artocarpus altilis fruit flesh, is a gluten-free wheat flour substitute; FDA issued a no-questions GRAS letter (GRN 596) in February 2016.
Breakfast
Breakfast, the first meal of the day breaking the overnight fast, also called morning meal; defined as within 2-3 h of waking. Historically a laborer's meal, now studied for nutrient intake, energy balance, and school programs.
Breakfast cereal
Breakfast cereal: processed-grain breakfast food, hot (oatmeal) or ready-to-eat cold cereal; Battle Creek origins (Kellogg, Post), 12 manufacturing process categories, fortified, US market about $11 billion led by General Mills and WK Kellogg (Ferrero, 2025).
Breastaurant
A breastaurant is a casual-dining restaurant featuring scantily-clad waitresses, the term being a blend of breast and restaurant and associated above all with Hooters, opened in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983.
Brennivín
Brennivín (Icelandic aquavit, nicknamed Svarti dauði or Black Death) is Iceland's signature caraway-flavored spirit, introduced by the state monopoly in 1935 after prohibition on spirits ended, bottled at 40% ABV, and now produced by Kveldúlfur Distillery under Ölgerðin.
Bresaola
Bresaola, or Bresaola della Valtellina IGP, is salt-cured, air-dried lean beef from Valtellina, Lombardy, protected since 1996, made only in Sondrio province, very high protein, low fat, high sodium, eaten raw in thin slices.
BrewDog
BrewDog: Scottish craft beer brand founded 2007 in Fraserburgh by James Watt and Martin Dickie; funded by Equity for Punks crowdfunding (over 200,000 investors, £75m), once valued around £1-2bn, sold to Tilray Brands in 2026 for £33m.
Brewers Association
The Brewers Association is a Boulder, Colorado trade association, formed by merger in 2005, that promotes and protects small and independent American craft brewers and runs the Great American Beer Festival.
Brewery
Brewery: a facility producing beer, from industrial plants to craft microbreweries. Covers the brewing process (mashing, boiling, fermenting), industrial versus craft brewing, history from 18th-century London to Prohibition, and the 2024-2025 U.S. craft contraction.
Brewing
Brewing is the production of beer from malted barley, hops, yeast, and water via mashing, boiling, fermentation, and maturation. Covers ale versus lager yeast, Neolithic origins, and current US, EU, and global industry volumes.
Breyers
Breyers is an American ice cream brand founded in Philadelphia in 1866 by William A. Breyer, known for Natural Vanilla and black-and-white tubs and now owned by The Magnum Ice Cream Company.
Brie
Brie: French soft cow's-milk cheese with a bloomy white rind from the Brie region near Paris; Brie de Meaux and Brie de Melun hold AOC (1980) and PDO protection, made from raw milk with at least 45% fat in dry matter.
Brier Hill–style pizza
Brier Hill–style pizza, also called Brier Hill pizza, is a Youngstown, Ohio regional pizza with thick breadlike crust, thick tomato sauce, bell peppers, and Romano instead of mozzarella, created by Basilicata immigrants and named via St. Anthony parish fundraisers.
Brining
Brining is the process of soaking food in a strong saltwater solution so the tissue absorbs salt, which preserves and seasons the food; sugar may be added.
Brinker International
Brinker International is a Dallas-based casual dining restaurant company that owns, operates, and franchises the Chili's Grill & Bar and Maggiano's Little Italy brands, tracing its origins to the first Chili's, founded in 1975.
Brioche
Brioche: French viennoiserie, a yeast-leavened enriched bread with high butter and egg content, soft stringy crumb. Word attested 15th century (1404); Cotgrave 1611; earliest recipe 1742; includes Brioche vendéenne PGI.
Brisket
Brisket is the beef cut from the breast or lower chest, two pectoral muscles (flat and point) per animal. Cooked low and slow for Texas barbecue, braised for Jewish holidays, or cured as corned beef; collagen converts to gelatin at 185-195°F.
Britannia Industries
Britannia Industries Limited, founded 1892 in Kolkata, is a Wadia Group Indian FMCG food company selling biscuits, bread, cakes, rusk, and dairy in over 80 countries, with over one-third of the Indian biscuit market.
British Chinese cuisine
British Chinese cuisine is the adapted Chinese cooking of the United Kingdom, served chiefly in takeaways and rooted in Cantonese dishes like chicken balls and chips with curry sauce.
British cuisine
British cuisine: the cooking traditions of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, also called UK or British food. Regional dishes, Victorian decline, wartime rationing, curry adoption, and the 1970s invention of a national cuisine distinguish it.
Brominated vegetable oil
Brominated vegetable oil (BVO, INS 443) is bromine-modified vegetable oil once used at up to 15 ppm to stabilize citrus flavoring in beverages; the FDA revoked its food additive authorization in 2024 over thyroid safety findings.
Bronfman family
The Bronfman family: Bessarabian Jewish immigrants who arrived in Canada in 1889 and built Seagram, once the world's largest distilling firm; sold to Vivendi in 2000, with brands absorbed by Pernod Ricard and Diageo.