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Buffet
Buffet (自助餐): self-service dining format where guests select from displayed dishes, usually at a fixed price. Covers etymology, Scandinavian and Las Vegas origins, service types, food-safety temperature limits, food waste, and nutrition research.
Buldak Ramen
Buldak Ramen (불닭볶음면, Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen) is Samyang Foods' spicy Korean stir-fried instant noodle, launched April 2012, famous for the Fire Noodle Challenge, 10 billion units sold, and Denmark's 2024 capsaicin recall.
Bulgogi (불고기)
Bulgogi (불고기) is Korea's marinated grilled beef: thin soy-sauce, pear, garlic, and sesame marinade, lineage from Goguryeo maekjeok through Joseon neobiani, with brothy Seoul and charcoal Eonyang and Gwangyang styles.
Bulleit Bourbon
Bulleit Bourbon (Frontier Whiskey) is a Diageo-owned Kentucky straight bourbon, 90 proof, mashbill 68/28/4 corn-rye-barley, founded by Tom Bulleit in 1987, historically sourced from Four Roses, with own distilleries since 2017.
Bundt cake
Bundt cake: cake baked in a fluted tube pan trademarked by Nordic Ware, invented 1950 by H. David Dalquist in Minneapolis from a German kugelhopf mold; famous after the 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off Tunnel of Fudge cake.
Bunny chow
Bunny chow, or "bunny", is Durban, South Africa's curry-in-a-hollowed-white-bread-loaf street food, created by the Indian community around 1940s Grey Street under apartheid take-away restrictions; filled with mutton, chicken, or bean curry and eaten by hand.
Burger Chef
Burger Chef, an American fast-food hamburger chain founded in Indianapolis in 1958 by Frank P. Thomas Jr. and Bob Wildman, became the second-largest US restaurant chain before General Foods sold it to Hardee's owner Imasco in 1982; the last location closed in 1996.
Burger King
Burger King (BK) is an American hamburger fast food chain founded in Miami in 1954 by McLamore and Edgerton, known for the Whopper and flame-grilling, now owned by Restaurant Brands International with about 19,000 restaurants worldwide.
Bürgerbräukeller
Bürgerbräukeller: Munich beer hall (1885–1979, Rosenheimer Straße) hosting the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch start and Georg Elser's failed 1939 bomb attack on Hitler, demolished 1979.
Burgundy
Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical region of east-central France, a former duchy and former administrative region, and a celebrated wine region whose Climats vineyards are UNESCO World Heritage listed.
Burgundy wine
Burgundy wine: wines of Bourgogne, France, from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay across 84 appellations and 1,247 UNESCO-listed Climats on 30,052 hectares, shaped by monks, Valois dukes, and a cool climate with ever-earlier harvests.
Burmese cuisine
Burmese cuisine, also called the cuisine of Myanmar, is the cookery of Myanmar, centered on rice with curry, soup, and ngapi, a fermented fish paste.
Burnt ends
Burnt ends: crispy smoked beef brisket point pieces, a Kansas City barbecue specialty also called brownies. Originated as free Arthur Bryant's scraps, popularized by Calvin Trillin's 1972 Playboy essay, now a national menu staple.
Burrata
Burrata, also known as Burrata di Andria, is a fresh Italian cow's-milk cheese from Andria in Apulia, made as a mozzarella shell filled with creamy stracciatella.
Burrito
Burrito: a flour tortilla wrapped around fillings of meat, beans, rice, and cheese; from Mexican Spanish "little donkey." Originated in northern Mexico; Mission-style and California burritos are American developments.
Bush tucker
Bush tucker (bush food) is Australian native food used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for over 65,000 years; includes Kakadu plum, wattleseed, lemon myrtle; a $81.5 million industry with only 1% Indigenous ownership.
Butcher
Butcher: a person who slaughters animals or cuts, trims, and prepares meat for sale; also a butcher shop. Covers trade tasks, training, wages, safety, history from guilds to supermarkets, and whole-animal buying economics.
Butter
Butter is a solid dairy fat with over 80% lipid, made by churning cream; also called beurre. Distinguished from ghee (99.6% milk fat) and margarine (vegetable oils); main fatty acids palmitic, myristic, oleic.
Butter chicken
Butter chicken (murgh makhani, मक्खन मुर्ग़ा) is a Delhi restaurant dish of tandoor-roasted chicken in a tomato-butter-cream gravy, linked to Moti Mahal and contested between the Gujral and Jaggi families in a 2024 lawsuit.
Butter tart
Butter tart, a classic Canadian pastry with a filling of butter, eggs, and sugar, often with raisins or nuts; first printed recipe 1900 in Barrie, Ontario; related to tarte au sucre and pecan pie.
Butter tea
Butter tea (po cha, bod ja) is the churned Tibetan and Himalayan drink of strong brick tea, yak or cattle butter, and salt, a daily high-altitude staple with regional forms such as Bhutanese suja and Ladakhi gur-gur chai.
Buttercream
Buttercream, also called buttercream frosting, is a butter-and-sugar cake frosting in styles such as American, Swiss meringue, Italian meringue, French, German, and ermine, differing in egg base, sweetness, and heat stability.
Butterfinger
Butterfinger is an American candy bar with a crisp peanut-butter brittle core and chocolate-flavored coating, created in 1923 by Otto Scherning of Curtiss Candy, owned by Nestlé from 1989 and by Ferrero since its 2018 $2.8 billion acquisition.
Butterfly pea flower tea
Butterfly pea flower tea, also called blue tea, anchan, or bunga telang, is a caffeine-free tisane from Clitoria ternatea flowers; its ternatin anthocyanins brew blue and turn purple-pink with lemon, and the extract is an FDA-listed natural food colorant.
Buttermilk
Buttermilk: a low-fat dairy liquid, either the byproduct of churning cream into butter or, as commonly sold, cultured buttermilk made by fermenting skim milk with Lactococcus lactis starter cultures.
Butterscotch
Butterscotch is a candy, sauce, and flavor made by cooking butter with brown sugar, distinct from white-sugar caramel and from toffee, which is butterscotch cooked to hard crack. Dating to 1802, famously from Doncaster.
C. W. Post
C. W. Post (1854–1914), American cereal manufacturer, founded the Postum Cereal Company in Battle Creek, Michigan, and created Postum, Grape-Nuts, and Post Toasties; also known for health-claim advertising, open-shop activism, and founding Post City, Texas.
Cabbage roll
Cabbage roll, also golubtsy, holubtsi, gołąbki, or sarmale: cabbage leaves wrapped around meat-and-rice filling and braised in tomato or sour sauce; descends from Ottoman dolma, with regional variants across Eastern Europe and beyond.
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc is a thin-skinned, early-ripening red wine grape from the Basque country, parent of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, covering 9% of Bordeaux's red vines and dominating Loire appellations like Chinon.
Cachaça
Cachaça (aguardente de cana): Brazil's exclusive sugarcane-juice spirit, 38-48% ABV, first distilled in Latin America around 1516-1532; base of the caipirinha, legally classified as white, aged, premium, or extra-premium.