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Chili dog
Chili dog: an American hot dog in a bun topped with chili con carne; term dates to 1970–75. Best-known variant is the Greek-Macedonian Coney dog of Detroit, Cincinnati, and Michigan.
Chili powder
Chili powder is an American spice blend of ground dried chilies with cumin, garlic, oregano, and often paprika, onion powder, and salt, developed for Tex-Mex dishes like chili con carne. First commercialized by William Gebhardt in San Antonio in 1896; mild (500–1,000 SHU) versus pure cayenne (30,000–50,000 SHU).
Chili's
Chili's Grill & Bar (Chili's) is a Dallas-founded American casual dining chain, founded 1975 on Greenville Avenue and owned since 1983 by Brinker International. Known for fajitas, burgers, Baby Back Ribs, margaritas, the $10.99 3 for Me deal, and a Kevin Hochman turnaround with five straight years of same-store sales growth.
Chimay Brewery
Chimay Brewery (Bières de Chimay), a Trappist brewery at Scourmont Abbey near Chimay, Belgium, founded 1850 and brewing since 1862; known for Red, White, and Blue beers, Trappist cheese, and the Chimay-Wartoise charitable foundation.
Chimichanga
Chimichanga (also chivichanga): a deep-fried burrito from the Arizona-Sonora border region, filled with meat, beans, and cheese; word means "trinket" in Mexican Spanish, attested by 1964, with disputed Tucson and Phoenix origin legends.
Chimichurri
Chimichurri: uncooked herb sauce of parsley, dried oregano, garlic, red wine vinegar, oil, and ají molido from Argentina and Uruguay (Río de la Plata), served with asado; also the Mexican cilantro-lime and Brazilian dry variants.
Chinese chicken salad
Chinese chicken salad is an American, Californian main-course salad of chicken, cabbage, wonton strips, and sesame-soy dressing, popularized by Madame Wu's Garden in Santa Monica and Wolfgang Puck's Chinois, not a dish from China.
Chinese cuisine (中国菜)
Chinese cuisine (中国菜) is China's cooking traditions across 34 provincial regional cuisines and 56 ethnic groups; the eight major cuisines (Lu, Chuan, Yue, Su, Min, Zhe, Xiang, Hui) were formally systematized by the China Cuisine Association in 2018.
Chinese herbal tea botanicals (chrysanthemum, licorice, honeysuckle, and others)
Chinese herbal tea botanicals such as chrysanthemum, licorice, and honeysuckle are medicine-food-homology plant materials brewed as tisanes; about 782 species are used, with FDA GRN 13 and safety issues including glycyrrhizin and contaminants.
Chinese Islamic cuisine
Chinese Islamic cuisine (qingzhen cai, 清真菜) is halal Chinese food centered on beef, lamb, and wheat noodles, practiced chiefly by Hui and Uyghur Muslims; qingzhen means 'pure and true', the Chinese term for halal, with Lanzhou lamian as its signature dish.
Chinese noodles
Chinese noodles (面条): strand staple foods of Chinese cuisine made from wheat, rice, or starches. Wheat north, rice south along the Qinling-Huai line; 4,000-year-old Lajia millet noodles; 43.8 billion instant noodle servings in 2024.
Chinese restaurant
Chinese restaurant: eating establishments serving Chinese cuisine, especially the 45,000+ Chinese American restaurants in the US, from mid-1800s Chinatown origins through chop suey, post-1965 regional diversification, takeout cartons, and modern fine dining.
Chinese sausage
Chinese sausage (香肠, xiāngcháng; lap cheong, 腊肠/臘腸, làcháng) is a raw dried cured sausage of pork with salt, sugar, wine, dried in casings; Cantonese sweet and Sichuan spicy styles, governed by GB/T 23493-2022.
Chipotle
Chipotle (Nahuatl chilpōctli): a smoke-dried ripe jalapeño pepper used in Mexican cooking, sold as morita or meco, in powder, or canned in adobo; also the name of Chipotle Mexican Grill, the American restaurant chain founded in Denver in 1993.
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG), founded by Steve Ells in Denver in 1993, pioneered the fast-casual burrito chain concept, grew under McDonald's investment 1998-2006, and now operates over 4,000 restaurants with $11.9 billion in 2025 revenue.
Chitlins (soul food)
Chitlins (chitterlings), pig intestines cleaned and simmered or fried, are a soul food staple of the African American South tied to slavery-era foodways, the Jim Crow-era Chitlin Circuit, and documented Yersinia food safety risks during holiday preparation.
Chitterlings
Chitterlings, or chitlins, are pig small intestines eaten as food, an old European dish now central to African American Southern and winter holiday cuisine; raw preparation carries Yersinia enterocolitica risk, requiring pre-boiling and careful handling.
Chivas Regal
Chivas Regal is a blended Scotch whisky made at the Strathisla Distillery in Speyside, launched in 1909 as the world's first luxury whisky and owned by Pernod Ricard since 2001.
Chlorine dioxide in food packaging
Chlorine dioxide in food packaging, or ClO2 active packaging, generates chlorine dioxide gas in-package from sodium chlorite precursors to kill microbes and extend shelf life; covered by FDA GRAS notices GRN 62 and GRN 161.
Chobani
Chobani, American food company founded by Hamdi Ulukaya in 2005 in New Berlin, New York; top U.S. Greek yogurt brand, owner of La Colombe and Daily Harvest; $800 million Keurig Dr Pepper stake buyback in 2026.
Choco pie
Choco pie (초코파이) is a Korean marshmallow-filled, chocolate-coated snack cake launched by Orion in 1974 and also made by Lotte, Crown, and Haitai; the name is generic, and Orion's version sells in 60+ countries with 84% of sales overseas.
Chocolate
Chocolate is a food made from fermented, roasted, ground Theobroma cacao seeds, consumed in the Americas for thousands of years before the first solid bar was made in 1847.
Chocolate bar
Chocolate bar: solid molded confection of cocoa solids, cocoa butter, and sugar; first made by Joseph Fry in 1847; mass-produced by Hershey (1900) and Cadbury Dairy Milk (1905); types defined by legal cocoa minimums.
Chocolate brownie
Chocolate brownie: dense American bar cookie of chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Credited to Chicago's Palmer House for the 1893 World's Fair; fudgy, chewy, and cakey styles differ by fat, flour, and leavening ratios.
Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake, or torta al cioccolato-style layer cakes, is a cake flavored with cocoa powder or chocolate. Early 19th-century American versions were yellow cake with chocolate frosting; the 1828 cocoa press and 1902 recipe pamphlets popularized chocolate-flavored cakes.
Chocolate chip cookie
Chocolate chip cookie, or Toll House cookie: American drop cookie with chocolate pieces, invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield at the Toll House Inn, Whitman, Massachusetts, late 1930s; recipe published 1938, licensed to Nestlé in 1939, chips marketed from 1940.
Chocolate milk
Chocolate milk is cow's milk flavored with cocoa and sweeteners such as sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. Also sold in plant-based forms; keeps milk's calcium, protein, and vitamin D but adds about 12 grams of added sugar per cup, roughly matching soda ounce for ounce.
Chocolate truffle
Chocolate truffle: round ganache confection (chocolate and cream), coated in couverture or cocoa; named for the fungus; documented from 1883, origin legend Petruccelli, Chambéry 1895; shelf life governed by water activity.
Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats
Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats (Flødeboller, teacakes, Schwedenbombe, Krembo) are biscuit-based confections with marshmallow or egg-white foam filling under a hard chocolate shell, invented in 19th-century Denmark with many national variants.
Choi Kang-rok (최강록)
Choi Kang-rok (최강록), born 1978, is a South Korean chef who won MasterChef Korea 2 in 2013 and Netflix's Culinary Class Wars season 2 in January 2026, both with 300 million won prizes; known for braises, Japanese cuisine, and his restaurant Neo, closed in 2024.