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Cadbury
Cadbury is a British chocolate brand founded in 1824 by John Cadbury in Birmingham, famous for Dairy Milk (1905), Bournville, Creme Egg, and Flake. Owned by Mondelez International since the 2010 Kraft takeover, its top markets are the UK, Australia, and India.
Cadbury Creme Egg
Cadbury Creme Egg: milk chocolate Easter candy with white-and-yellow fondant filling, launched 1971 by Cadbury (Mondelēz); over 220 million sold yearly in Britain; predecessors from 1923.
Cadbury Roses
Cadbury Roses: assorted wrapped chocolates brand launched by Cadbury in 1938 in response to Quality Street, now owned by Mondelēz; known for soft centres, twist-to-flow-wrap changes, and shrinking tub sizes.
Caesar (cocktail)
Caesar, or Bloody Caesar: Canada's national cocktail, invented in 1969 by Walter Chell at the Calgary Inn. Vodka with Clamato (tomato-clam juice), Worcestershire, hot sauce, celery salt rim, celery and lime garnish; 350 to 400 million drunk yearly.
Café Coffee Day
Café Coffee Day (CCD), India's pioneering coffee café chain founded by V.G. Siddhartha, opened its first Bengaluru café in 1996, peaked at 1,752 cafés in 2019, and ran 424 cafés with 55,802 vending machines by FY26 under Coffee Day Global Limited.
Cafe Hon
Cafe Hon was a Hampden, Baltimore restaurant opened by Denise Whiting in 1992, famous for its pink flamingo, HONfest, and the 2010 'hon' trademark controversy, closed 2022.
Café Tortoni
Café Tortoni is a historic café at Avenida de Mayo 825 in Buenos Aires, founded in 1858 and regarded as Argentina's oldest café still operating.
Cafeteria
Cafeteria (cafetería): a self-service restaurant where customers carry a tray along a line of premade food, pay per item, and seat themselves. Originated 1890s Chicago and Los Angeles, peaked 1930s–1990s, now mainly institutional.
Caffè mocha
Caffè mocha, also called mochaccino or mocha latte, is an espresso drink combining espresso, chocolate, and steamed milk. Named after Yemen's port of Mocha, it descends from Turin's bicerin and runs latte-style ratios versus the 1:1:1 mochaccino.
Caffè Nero
Caffè Nero is a British coffeehouse chain founded by the American businessman Gerry Ford in London in 1997, with over 1,100 outlets across Europe and the Middle East.
Caipirinha
Caipirinha: Brazil's national cocktail of cachaça, lime, and sugar, built in the glass over cracked ice. IBA Contemporary Classic with Caipiroska, Caipirissima, and Caipirão variants; legally defined at 15–36% ABV.
Cajun cuisine
Cajun cuisine is the rural cooking of south Louisiana's Acadian descendants, marked by dark oil-based roux, rice, pork, crawfish, gumbo, and boudin, distinct from tomato-based Creole cuisine of New Orleans.
Cake
Cake: a sweet baked food of flour, sugar, eggs, fat, and liquid, from Old Norse-derived English word kaka descendant. Covers batter and foam types, leavening history, pound cake, cake mixes, Bundt pan, sugar reduction, and clean-label reformulation.
Cake Boss
Cake Boss is a TLC reality series (premiered April 19, 2009) following baker Buddy Valastro of Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, and his family; 15 seasons, spin-offs Next Great Baker, Kitchen Boss, and Bakery Boss.
Cake decorating
Cake decorating is the craft of covering and ornamenting cakes with buttercream, fondant, and royal icing using piping, smoothing, and string work techniques. It traces to 17th-century Britain and Joseph Lambeth's 19th-century piping style, with 2026 trends favoring vintage Lambeth and textured buttercream.
Calavera
Calavera (Spanish, "skull"): Mexican Day of the Dead skull imagery, including sugar, chocolate, and amaranth skulls (alfeñique technique), satirical Posada prints like La Catrina, and humorous mock-epitaph verses written each November.
Calcium acid pyrophosphate
Calcium acid pyrophosphate (calcium dihydrogen diphosphate, CaH2P2O7, INS 450(vii)) is a slow-acting leavening acid for baked goods; US GRAS via GRN 420, JECFA MTDI 70 mg P/kg bw, sodium-free substitute for sodium acid pyrophosphate.
Calcium lactate
Calcium lactate (E327, CAS 814-80-2) is the calcium salt of lactic acid, a GRAS white crystalline food additive used as firming agent, stabilizer, leavening agent, and calcium fortificant in foods, supplements, and animal feed, with calcium absorption similar to other calcium salts.
Calcium propionate
Calcium propionate (calcium propanoate, E 282, INS 282, CAS 4075-81-4) is the calcium salt of propionic acid, a GRAS mold inhibitor used in bread, cheese, and dairy-cow feed, ineffective against yeast.
Caleb Bradham
Caleb Davis Bradham (1867-1934), New Bern, North Carolina pharmacist, invented Pepsi-Cola as "Brad's Drink" (1893), renamed it in 1898, founded the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1902, and lost it to 1923 sugar-price bankruptcy.
California roll
California roll (カリフォルニアロール): an American inside-out uramaki sushi with crab or surimi, avocado, and cucumber, invented in 1960s–70s Los Angeles (contested credit: Mashita, Seusa, Tojo) and the most-eaten US sushi.
California wine
California wine is wine made from grapes grown in California, which produces about 80 percent of United States wine, led by regions such as Napa Valley and Sonoma County.
Calvados
Calvados is Normandy's AOC-protected apple and pear brandy, one of France's three great brandies with Cognac and Armagnac. Three appellations (Calvados, Pays d'Auge, Domfrontais), minimum 40% ABV, two years oak aging, about 6 million bottles yearly.
Cambridge Beer Festival
The Cambridge Beer Festival is a beer and cider festival held on Jesus Green in Cambridge, England, first held in 1974 and run by the Cambridge branch of CAMRA.
Camel milk
Camel milk, from the dromedary and Bactrian camel, is a staple of arid-region pastoralists, similar to cow milk but saltier, lacking β-lactoglobulin, richer in vitamin C, and increasingly commercially processed despite UHT and cheese-making difficulties.
Camembert
Camembert: soft, bloomy-rind cow's milk cheese from Normandy, France; Camembert de Normandie (AOC 1983, PDO 1996) requires raw milk, ladle molding in five layers, 250 g, 45% fat, 21-day ripening, poplar box.
Campa Cola
Campa Cola, Indian soft drink brand launched in 1977 by Pure Drinks Group after Coca-Cola's FERA-driven exit; dominated 1980s India with 'The Great Indian Taste', declined after 1991 liberalization, and was relaunched by Reliance in 2023.
Campari
Campari is the iconic Italian red bitter aperitif invented by Gaspare Campari in Novara in 1860, first sold as Bitter all'uso d'Hollanda. Bottled at 24% abv with a secret recipe, it anchors the Negroni, Americano, and Spritz and is the flagship of Gruppo Campari.
Campari Group
Campari Group (Davide Campari-Milano N.V.), Italian premium spirits company founded 1860, maker of Campari bitter and Aperol; sixth-largest global premium spirits player, controlled by Lagfin, FY2025 net sales €3,051 million.
Campden tablet
Campden tablet: pre-measured potassium or sodium metabisulfite pill releasing sulfur dioxide, developed at Chipping Campden, England, for WWII fruit preservation; used in home winemaking, cider, mead, and brewing water dechlorination.