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Celebrity chef
Celebrity chef: a chef famous through media such as television, cookbooks, and social media whose fame shapes culinary culture and consumer behavior; traces to Carême in the late 1700s, accelerated by the 1993 Food Network launch.
Cendol
Cendol (chendol, dawet, lod chong) is a Southeast Asian iced dessert of green pandan starch jelly strands with coconut milk and palm sugar, documented in Dutch East Indies records from 1859 and 1866 and a Malaysian heritage food.
Century egg (皮蛋)
Century egg (皮蛋, pidan), also called thousand-year or preserved egg, is a Chinese duck, chicken, or quail egg cured in alkaline lime, ash, salt, and clay for weeks to months, yielding dark brown gel white and green-black yolk.
Cervecería Bucanero
Cervecería Bucanero is a Cuban brewery founded in 1997, owned equally by Ambev's Canadian subsidiary and a Cuban state company, and makes Cristal and Bucanero beers.
Cerveza Cristal
Cerveza Cristal is a Peruvian pale lager beer, 4.8% alcohol by volume, brewed since 1922 by the Lima brewery Backus & Johnston and sold as Peru's leading beer brand.
Ćevapi
Ćevapi (ćevapčići), from Turkish kebap, are small skinless hand-formed Balkan grilled minced-meat rolls, typically beef or beef-lamb, served in somun flatbread with raw onion and kajmak; Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and Leskovac styles differ in meat, size, and shape.
Ceviche
Ceviche (cebiche, seviche) is a Latin American cold dish of raw fish or shellfish cured in citrus with chili, salt, and onion; Peru's version won UNESCO intangible heritage status in 2023, while Ecuador maintains an independent tomato-juice tradition.
CGIAR
CGIAR, formerly the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, is a global agricultural research partnership founded in 1971 by the World Bank, FAO, and UNDP, coordinating research centers, a multi-donor trust fund, and a 2025-30 portfolio of science programs.
Cha chaan teng (茶餐厅)
The cha chaan teng (茶餐厅, tea restaurant) is a Hong Kong restaurant type from the 1940s and 1950s combining fast service with a menu of Chinese and Western dishes.
Chaat (चाट)
Chaat (चाट, Urdu چاٹ) is a family of savory South Asian street snacks, sold by vendors across India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, blending sweet, sour, spicy, and tangy flavors.
Chablis (AOC)
Chablis (AOC), Chablis wine: northern Burgundy appellation for still white wine made only from Chardonnay on Kimmeridgian soils, with four tiers (Petit Chablis to Grand Cru), 47 label climats, and 60% exports.
Chaleo Yoovidhya
Chaleo Yoovidhya was a Thai businessman who created the energy drink Krating Daeng in 1976 and in 1984 partnered with Dietrich Mateschitz to found Red Bull GmbH.
Chalerm Yoovidhya
Chalerm Yoovidhya (เฉลิม อยู่วิทยา), Thai businessman born 1950, eldest son of Red Bull co-founder Chaleo Yoovidhya; head of the family holding 51% of Red Bull GmbH, founder of Siam Winery, Thailand's richest per Forbes, and transferred his 2% stake to a Geneva trust in 2025.
Challah
Challah (חלה) is the braided, egg-enriched ceremonial bread of Shabbat and Jewish holidays, served as two loaves recalling double manna; the name also denotes the dough portion separated as a biblical offering, adopted from South German Sabbath bread in the Middle Ages.
Chambord (liqueur)
Chambord (Chambord Liqueur Royale de France) is a French black raspberry liqueur, 16.5% ABV, launched 1982 in the Loire Valley, made from raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants, vanilla, honey, and cognac, and owned by Brown-Forman since 2006.
Chambourcin
Chambourcin (Joannes Seyve 26-205) is a French-American hybrid red wine grape released in 1963, grown in France and the eastern US, with mildew resistance loci Rpv3/Ren but cold-tender buds and black rot susceptibility.
Chamoy (sauce)
Chamoy is a Mexican sweet-sour-salty-spicy condiment made from pickled or dehydrated apricot, mango, plum, or tamarind with chile, salt, sugar, and vinegar, derived from Asian salted-plum preserves (umeboshi, Cantonese see-moy) and used on fruit, candy, drinks, and chamoyadas.
Champagne
Champagne: sparkling wine from the delimited Champagne AOC region of northeastern France, made by the bottle-fermented méthode traditionnelle from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier; AOC since 1936, UNESCO-listed 2015, with 17 Grand Cru villages and a protected name.
Champurrado
Champurrado, also called atole de chocolate, is a Mexican hot drink: chocolate-flavored atole thickened with nixtamalized corn masa, sweetened with piloncillo, and whisked with a molinillo, served with tamales at posadas and Día de los Muertos.
Chapati (चपाती)
Chapati (चपाती), also called roti or phulka, is an unleavened whole-wheat flatbread cooked on a tawa and puffed over flame; a staple of South Asia providing about 300 kcal per 100 g.
Char siu (叉烧)
Char siu (叉烧) is Cantonese fork-roasted, honey-glazed barbecued pork, a siu mei staple developed from the older 'insert-roast' (插烧) technique. Known for shoulder-meat cuts, sweet marinade, char siu rice, and char siu bao dim sum.
Charcuterie
Charcuterie (from French chair, cuit, "cooked flesh") is the craft and trade of prepared pork products: hams, sausages, pâtés, rillettes. Covers French product categories, curing-fermentation-drying safety hurdles, and the modern board trend.
Chardonnay
Chardonnay, white wine grape of Burgundy and Champagne, a natural Pinot × Gouais blanc cross per 1999 DNA analysis; fifth most planted wine grape worldwide, ~210,000 ha in 2017, known for malolactic buttery style and Chablis-to-oaked range.
Charles Domery
Charles Domery (Charles Domerz), c. 1778–after 1800, Polish soldier in the Prussian and French armies, captured on the Hoche in 1799 and interned at Liverpool, famous for eating 16 lbs of food daily, cats, rats, and candles.
Charles Louis Fleischmann
Charles Louis Fleischmann (1834 or 1835–1897), Hungarian-American yeast manufacturer, founded Fleischmann Yeast Company in Cincinnati in 1868 with brother Maximilian and James Gaff, introduced compressed yeast to America, promoted it at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, and built the world's largest yeast plant in Peekskill.
Charles Shaw wine
Charles Shaw wine, or Two Buck Chuck, is Bronco Wine Company's budget varietal line sold only at Trader Joe's since 2002, launched at $1.99, reaching one billion bottles by 2016.
Charlie Trotter
Charlie Trotter (1959–2013) was a self-taught American chef whose Chicago restaurant Charlie Trotter's (1987–2012) pioneered tasting menus, the first US vegetarian tasting menu, and trained chefs like Grant Achatz.
Charlotte (cake)
Charlotte (cake): a molded dessert lined with ladyfingers, sponge cake, or buttered bread. First printed 1796 as baked apple charlotte; Carême's cold Bavarian-cream version became the Charlotte Russe.
Charoen Pokphand (เจริญโภคภัณฑ์)
Charoen Pokphand (เจริญโภคภัณฑ์), CP Group, a Thai conglomerate founded 1921 as a Bangkok seed shop by the Chia family, grown into eight business lines in over 21 countries, spanning agro-industry (CPF), 7-Eleven, Makro, Lotus's, and True Corporation.
Chartreuse (liqueur)
Chartreuse, French herbal liqueur of Carthusian monks, 130-plant secret recipe, green 55% and yellow 40% ABV, made since 1764 elixir and 1840 liqueurs, capped production 2021.