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Caribou Coffee
Caribou Coffee: American coffeehouse chain founded 1992 in Edina, Minnesota by John and Kim Puckett; owned by JAB Holding under Panera Brands since 2013; over 800 locations in 11 countries, concentrated in the Midwest.
Carl Ruiz
Carl "The Cuban" Ruiz (April 4, 1975 – September 21, 2019) was an American celebrity chef, La Cubana owner, and Food Network judge who won Guy's Grocery Games Season 12.
Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr. is an American fast-food chain founded in 1941 by Carl and Margaret Karcher from a $326 hot dog cart, known for charbroiled burgers, sister brand of Hardee's under CKE Restaurants, headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.
Carla Hall
Carla Hall (born 1964, Nashville) is an American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality: Top Chef finalist and All-Stars Fan Favorite, co-host of ABC's The Chew (2011-2018), 2015 Daytime Emmy winner, and Food Network baking-show judge.
Carling Black Label
Carling Black Label, also known as Carling Beer, is a lager beer brand best known as one of South Africa's leading beers, produced by SAB since 1966.
Carling Brewery
Carling Brewery, founded by Thomas Carling in London, Ontario (1840 or 1843), became Carling O'Keefe and merged into Molson in 1989; the Carling brand, including Black Label, is now Molson Coors' UK-brewed, Britain's largest beer brand.
Carlsberg Group
Carlsberg Group: Danish brewery and beverage group founded in 1847 by J.C. Jacobsen, one of the world's leading brewers, controlled by the Carlsberg Foundation (30% capital, 78% votes), with brands Tuborg, Carlsberg, 1664 Blanc, Grimbergen, and, since 2025, Britvic soft drinks.
Carmel Winery
Carmel Winery (יקבי כרמל), also Carmel Mizrahi, is Israel's largest winery, founded by Baron Edmond de Rothschild with cellars at Rishon LeZion (1890) and Zichron Ya'akov (1892), producing about 15 million bottles a year.
Carménère
Carménère, a Bordeaux red wine grape thought extinct after 19th-century phylloxera, rediscovered in Chile in 1994 by ampelographer Jean-Michel Boursiquot at Viña Carmen; Chile is now the world's largest producer.
Carne asada
Carne asada (grilled beef), Mexican dish of thin-cut beef grilled over charcoal or a griddle, also the northern Mexican cookout gathering; no fixed cut or recipe, centered on Sonora and Nuevo León, with Nicaraguan and South American counterparts.
Carnegie Deli
Carnegie Deli, a famous New York Jewish delicatessen founded in 1937 across from Carnegie Hall, known for pound-high pastrami sandwiches, celebrity-named sandwiches, the 1979 Sheraton review, its 2016 closing, and 2026 reopening in the former Stage Deli space.
Carrageenan
Carrageenan (E 407, INS 407, CAS 9000-07-1), also called Garrageenin, is a sulfated polygalactan extracted from red seaweed, with kappa, iota, and lambda types used as gelling, thickening, and stabilizing food additives.
Carrefour
Carrefour, also known as Carrefour Group or Groupe Carrefour, is a French multinational food retailer founded in 1959, best known for opening France's first hypermarket in 1963.
Carrot cake
Carrot cake, also called carrot loaf or Rüeblitorte in Switzerland, is a spiced oil-based cake of grated carrots with cream cheese frosting; 84% of recipes use oil, and its printed history runs from 1827 to wartime Britain.
Carrot soup
Carrot soup, including potage Crécy and Swiss Rüeblisuppe, is a puréed or chunky soup with carrots as the main ingredient, historically plebeian fare, now common as carrot-coriander or carrot-ginger versions.
Cartouche (cooking)
Cartouche (cooking): a parchment or greaseproof paper circle placed on the surface of braises, poached foods, sauces, and custards to slow evaporation, prevent skin, and keep food submerged; French technique, from Italian cartoccio.
Casa Bonita
Casa Bonita is the Lakewood, Colorado Mexican-themed eatertainment restaurant, opened 1974, famed for cliff divers and sopapillas, bought by South Park creators Parker and Stone in 2021 and reopened 2023; distinct from the Oaxaca boutique hotel of the same name.
Casein
Casein, also known as casein protein, is a family of phosphoproteins that make up about 80% of the protein in cow's milk and forms the curds in cheesemaking.
Cassata
Cassata, or cassata siciliana, is Sicily's layered Easter cake of liqueur-soaked sponge, sweetened sheep's-milk ricotta with chocolate, green marzipan, white glaze, and candied fruit; modern form codified by Salvatore Gulì in 1873; name from Arabic qas'at or Latin caseus.
Cassoulet
Cassoulet is a slow-baked French bean casserole from the Languedoc with pork, mutton, sausage, and duck or goose confit; Castelnaudary, Carcassonne, and Toulouse each claim the authentic version.
Cast-iron cookware
Cast-iron cookware: solid cast iron skillets, Dutch ovens, and griddles, also called bare or enameled cast iron. Seasoned non-stick surface, high heat retention, induction and oven safe, adds dietary iron, needs hand care.
Castella (カステラ)
Castella (カステラ, kasutera) is a Japanese sponge cake of Portuguese origin, from pão de Castela, introduced via Nagasaki in the 16th century; made with eggs, sugar, flour and mizuame, no butter, with a crunchy zarame-sugar bottom.
Castlemaine Perkins
Castlemaine Perkins, Brisbane brewery at Milton founded 1878 by the Fitzgerald brothers, brewer of XXXX beer; XXXX Bitter launched 1924, merged with Perkins 1928, now owned by Lion/Kirin.
Casu martzu
Casu martzu (casu marzu), also called casu modde or casu fràzigu, is a Sardinian sheep milk cheese ripened by live Piophila casei larvae. Banned from EU sale since 2002, it remains a traditional PAT-listed Sardinian delicacy.
Cat café
Cat café: a business where visitors pay to spend time with cats. Began with Taipei's Cat Flower Garden (1998), boomed in Osaka and Tokyo, reached the US in 2014 (Cat Town, Meow Parlour). Adoption-linked, health-code constrained, and debated on cat welfare grounds.
Cat Cora
Cat Cora (born 1967), Greek American chef from Jackson, Mississippi, CIA class of 1995, first female Iron Chef on Iron Chef America (2005); founder of Chefs for Humanity, 18+ restaurants.
Catalan cuisine
Catalan cuisine (cuina catalana) is the cooking of Catalonia, Spain, documented since the 1324 Llibre de Sent Soví, with dishes like pa amb tomàquet and crema catalana and a modern avant-garde restaurant movement led by Ferran Adrià.
Catering
Catering, also called catering service, is the business of providing prepared food, beverages, and often service staff for events, institutions, and workplaces at a location chosen by the client.
Cauldron
Cauldron (also caldron): a large deep round pot for cooking over an open fire, usually metal, often three-legged or hung from a tripod. Distinct from the flat-bottomed Dutch oven; documented from Minoan Crete and Bronze Age Europe onward.
Cava (Spanish wine)
Cava is a Spanish sparkling wine made by the traditional method, first bottled in 1872 and produced mainly in Catalonia from the grapes Macabeo, Xarel·lo, and Parellada.