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Chef's Table
Chef's Table is a Netflix documentary series created by David Gelb, premiering April 26, 2015, profiling one renowned chef per episode; distinct from spin-offs France, Pastry, BBQ, Pizza, Noodles, and Legends.
Chef's uniform
The chef's uniform, often called chef's whites, is the standard working dress of professional kitchens, including the tall white toque, double-breasted jacket, and checkered trousers.
Chenin blanc
Chenin blanc, also called Pineau de la Loire or Steen, is a high-acid white wine grape from France's Loire Valley, first named by Rabelais in 1534, a savagnin descendant, now most planted in South Africa (16,192 ha in 2023).
Chess pie
Chess pie, also known as Jefferson Davis pie, is a very sweet Southern American dessert pie with a dense custard filling of eggs, butter, and sugar.
Chewing gum
Chewing gum, a chewable confection of insoluble gum base with sweeteners and flavors; ancient birch-bark tar and chicle origins, Thomas Adams and Wrigley industry, sugar-free dental benefits, synthetic polymer base.
Chewy (company)
Chewy, also known as Chewy.com, is an American e-commerce company selling pet food, supplies, medications, and health services, launched in 2011 and publicly listed since 2019.
Chez Panisse
Chez Panisse, Alice Waters' Berkeley restaurant opened August 28, 1971 with Paul Aratow, pioneered California cuisine and farm-to-table dining with a daily-changing fixed menu, direct farmer sourcing, and the Edible Schoolyard Project.
Chi-Chi's
Chi-Chi's, American Tex-Mex restaurant chain founded 1975 by Marno McDermott and Max McGee in Minnesota; peaked at 200+ locations, collapsed in 2003 bankruptcy after the largest US hepatitis A outbreak, revived by Michael McDermott in 2025.
Chianti
Chianti, Tuscan red wine DOCG based on Sangiovese; distinct from Chianti Classico DOCG, the historic 7-municipality zone with the Gallo Nero mark, 80-100% Sangiovese, and Annata, Riserva, and Gran Selezione tiers.
Chicago-style hot dog
Chicago-style hot dog: an all-beef frankfurter on a steamed poppy seed bun with yellow mustard, neon relish, onion, tomato, pickle spear, sport peppers, and celery salt, never ketchup; traced to Vienna Beef at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and fixed as a style between 1920 and 1950.
Chicago-style pizza
Chicago-style pizza is the family of pizzas created in Chicago, led by deep dish, invented around 1943 at Pizzeria Uno with reversed layering, plus stuffed, pan, and tavern-style thin crust.
Chicha
Chicha: fermented Latin American beverage from maize, cassava, or fruits; Quechua aqa, word documented in Spanish since 1521; central to Andean ritual, Wari state brewing, and Inca ceremony.
Chicharrón
Chicharrón: fried pork skin or pork fried in its own fat, a staple across Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines; distinct from US pork rinds, with regional forms like torrezno de Soria, llardons, and Mexican chicharrón prensado.
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A is an American fast-food chicken sandwich chain founded by S. Truett Cathy, who opened the Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia in 1946; the sandwich was perfected in 1964, the first Chick-fil-A opened in Greenbriar Mall in 1967, and all locations close on Sundays.
Chicken à la King
Chicken à la King is an American dish of diced chicken in cream sauce with mushrooms, pimientos, and peppers, served on toast or pastry. Its origin is contested: Brighton Beach Hotel's chef George Greenwald, the Keene family, and cook William King are all credited.
Chicken and waffles
Chicken and waffles, an American dish with two lineages: Pennsylvania Dutch stewed chicken and gravy over a plain waffle from the 1600s, and the Harlem soul food fried chicken with sweet waffle popularized by Wells Supper Club in 1938 and Roscoe's in Los Angeles in 1975.
Chicken as food
Chicken as food: meat of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), the world's most consumed poultry. Over 33 billion birds (2020), 30% of global meat consumption, 165 °F safe cooking temperature, cheapest livestock meat.
Chicken curry
Chicken curry: chicken simmered in a spiced sauce; term coined by East India Company men for saucy Indian dishes; reached Japan via the Royal Navy in the 1870s; USDA 260 kcal per cup.
Chicken feet
Chicken feet (凤爪, fengzhao; phoenix claws) are poultry feet eaten for their gelatinous collagen texture, central to Cantonese dim sum, Korean dakbal, and South African walkie talkies, and a major chicken-paw export trade to China.
Chicken Kiev (Котлета по-киевски)
Chicken Kiev (котлета по-київськи, kotleta po-kyivsky) is a breaded chicken cutlet stuffed with herb butter, claimed by Ukrainian and Russian cuisine with disputed French, St Petersburg, and Kyiv origins; first printed 1913-1914, revived by Intourist in 1947, a Marks & Spencer ready meal from 1979.
Chicken McNuggets
Chicken McNuggets are McDonald's battered, twice-fried white-meat chicken pieces, developed by chef René Arend from Robert C. Baker's Cornell work and launched nationwide in 1983; US versions use no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.
Chicken nugget
Chicken nugget: a small breaded, fried or baked piece of chicken, also called a nuggie. Invented by Robert C. Baker at Cornell in 1963; McDonald's McNugget debuted nationwide in 1983; fat 10.9-22.7 g/100 g.
Chicken paprikash
Chicken paprikash (paprikás csirke) is a Hungarian chicken stew in an onion-paprika sauce finished with sour cream, served with nokedli dumplings; distinct from goulash, which never contains sour cream.
Chicken soup
Chicken soup (鸡汤) is a broth-based soup of simmered chicken, known as "Jewish penicillin" and a global cold remedy; endorsed by Avicenna and Maimonides, it relieves cold symptoms briefly but does not cure illness.
Chicken tikka masala
Chicken tikka masala is a British curry of tandoor-roasted marinated chicken in a spiced tomato-cream sauce, created in Britain's South Asian restaurants; origin is contested between Glasgow's Shish Mahal chef Ali Ahmed Aslam and Indian precursors like butter chicken.
Chickpea protein
Chickpea protein, from Cicer arietinum seeds (18-29% protein), is prepared as flour, concentrates, and isolates by dry or wet extraction. Tate & Lyle's chickpea protein concentrate received an FDA no-questions GRAS letter (GRN 1098, August 2023) for use levels up to 90% in specified foods.
Chiclets
Chiclets is a candy-coated chewing gum brand of small square pieces, named after chicle tree sap. Introduced by Fleer in 1904, it passed from American Chicle to Perfetti Van Melle in 2023; US production ended in 2016.
Chiffon cake
Chiffon cake, an American oil-based foam cake invented by Harry Baker in the 1920s and released by General Mills in 1948 as "the first new cake in 100 years," combines whipped egg whites, baking powder, oil, and egg yolks for a tall, moist crumb.
Chilaquiles
Chilaquiles: Mexican dish of fried corn tortilla pieces cooked in red or green chile salsa, garnished with onion, cheese, and cream; Nahuatl name, 1831 and 1845 printed recipes, hangover-food reputation.
Chili con carne
Chili con carne (chile con carne), or Texas chili, is a Tex-Mex beef and chile stew first recorded in 1857, popularized by San Antonio's Chili Queens, industrialized by Gebhardt's 1896 chili powder, and Texas's state dish since 1977.