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Cholent (טשאָלנט)
Cholent (טשאָלנט), also called hamin, dafina, or schalet, is the slow-cooked Jewish Sabbath stew prepared Friday and kept warm overnight for the Shabbat midday meal, typically with meat, beans, barley, and potatoes in the Ashkenazi version.
Cholula Hot Sauce
Cholula Hot Sauce is a mild Mexican hot sauce made from árbol and piquín peppers, recognizable by its round beechwood cap, owned by McCormick since 2020.
Chop suey
Chop suey (杂碎, Cantonese tsa sui, "odds and ends") is an American Chinese stir-fry of meat, celery, onions, and bean sprouts in soy sauce over rice.
Chopped (TV series)
Chopped is a Food Network cooking competition series premiering January 13, 2009, hosted by Ted Allen, in which four chefs cook mystery-basket ingredients across three rounds for a $10,000 prize.
Chopped cheese
Chopped cheese, also chop cheese, is a New York City bodega sandwich of griddle-chopped ground beef, American cheese, and onions on a hero roll, credited to East Harlem's Hajji's (Blue Sky Deli) with disputed creators and 2016 mainstream fame.
Chopsticks (筷子)
Chopsticks (筷子, anciently 箸) are paired eating sticks invented in China, in documented use since the Shang dynasty and common worldwide: about three in ten people eat with them, with distinct Chinese, Japanese, and Korean styles.
Chorizo
Chorizo (Portuguese chouriço) is a paprika-seasoned pork sausage from Iberia. Spanish chorizo is cured and eaten sliced; Mexican chorizo is fresh, chile-colored, and crumbled and cooked before eating.
Chouquette
Chouquette: small French unfilled choux pastry puff, about 2-3 cm, topped with pearl sugar (sucre perlé) before baking; eaten at breakfast or le goûter; part of the pâte à choux family with éclairs and gougères.
Choux pastry
Choux pastry (pâte à choux) is a twice-cooked French dough of water, butter, flour, and eggs, leavened only by steam; base of éclairs, profiteroles, gougères, and croquembouche.
Chow mein
Chow mein (炒麵, "stir-fried noodles") is a Cantonese noodle dish brought to America by Gold Rush-era immigrants. Distinct from lo mein by wok-frying, it split into East Coast crispy, West Coast soft, and sandwich variants.
Chowder
Chowder is a thick, chunky seafood or vegetable soup or stew, named from French chaudiere (cooking pot). First attested 1751; brought by Breton fishermen via Newfoundland to New England; famous variants include milk-based New England and tomato-based Manhattan clam chowder.
Chris Fischer
Chris Fischer is an American chef, farmer, and food writer who runs Beetlebung Farm in Chilmark, Massachusetts, and won a 2016 James Beard Award for his cookbook.
Chris Kempczinski
Chris Kempczinski (born 1968, Cincinnati) is Chairman, President, and CEO of McDonald's Corporation since November 2019, chairman since May 2024, architect of the Accelerating the Arches strategy, formerly of Kraft Heinz, PepsiCo, and P&G.
Christian dietary laws
Christian dietary laws: unlike kosher and halal, Christianity has few permanent food rules; Acts 15 set minimal restrictions, and most obligations are Orthodox, Catholic, and Adventist fasting and abstinence practices.
Christina Machamer
Christina Machamer, born 1982 in St. Louis, is an American chef and sommelier who won Hell's Kitchen season 4 (2008), earning a $250,000 post at Gordon Ramsay's London West Hollywood, then built a Napa Valley food-and-wine career.
Christina Tosi
Christina Tosi (born 1981) is an American pastry chef, founder of Milk Bar, creator of Cereal Milk, Compost Cookie, and Milk Bar Pie, James Beard winner, and MasterChef judge.
Christina Wilson
Christina Wilson, born 1979 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, is the Hell's Kitchen Season 10 winner (2012) who became chef de cuisine at Gordon Ramsay Steak Las Vegas ($250,000 salary), then executive chef at BurGR, corporate executive chef, and VP of Culinary for Gordon Ramsay North America until December 2023, and red team sous chef on Seasons 15 and 17-22.
Christine Hà
Christine Hà (born 1979) is a Vietnamese American chef, the first blind contestant and season 3 (2012) winner of MasterChef US, author of the New York Times best-seller Recipes from My Home Kitchen, and owner of Houston restaurants The Blind Goat, Xin Chào, and Stuffed Belly.
Christmas carp
Christmas carp: pond-raised carp eaten fried with potato salad on Czech Christmas Eve, also in Poland, Slovakia and Austria; bought live from street tanks, bathtub-kept, scales kept for luck.
Christmas dinner
Christmas dinner, the festive meal of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Epiphany, known in Britain and America for roast turkey, stuffing, and Christmas pudding. Its modern menu emerged in the nineteenth century; other traditions center on carp, ham, lamb, or KFC in Japan.
Christmas pudding
Christmas pudding, also called plum or figgy pudding, is a British steamed dessert of dried fruit, suet, breadcrumbs, spices and brandy, flambéed at Christmas dinner. It evolved from medieval savory plum pottage, was named by Eliza Acton in 1845, and spread through the British Empire.
Christopher Kimball
Christopher Kimball (born 1951), American food editor and TV host; founded Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, left in 2015, and founded Milk Street in Boston after a settled 2016 lawsuit.
Chuck E. Cheese
Chuck E. Cheese is an American family entertainment center chain founded May 17, 1977 in San Jose by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell as Pizza Time Theatre; now owned by CEC Entertainment of Irving, Texas, with 500+ locations, arcade games, pizza, and over 500,000 birthday parties a year.
Chuck E. Cheese (character)
Chuck E. Cheese, full name Charles Entertainment Cheese, is the mouse mascot of the Chuck E. Cheese pizza-arcade chain, created by Nolan Bushnell in 1977 after a coyote costume arrived as a rat; originally a cigar-smoking rat, redesigned as a rockstar mouse in 2012.
Chuck steak
Chuck steak: beef steak from the chuck (shoulder/forequarter) primal, ribs 1–5 and scapula, high in collagen and usually braised, with tender exceptions flat iron, chuck eye, and Denver steaks suited to grilling.
Chuckwagon
Chuckwagon: mobile kitchen invented by Charles Goodnight in 1866 from an Army surplus wagon for cattle drives; also called chuck wagon; official vehicle of Texas since 2005 and ancestor of the food truck.
Chūhai
Chūhai (チューハイ, 酎ハイ), short for shochu highball, is a Japanese mixed drink of neutral spirits such as shochu or vodka with fruit juice and soda; no legal definition exists, and canned versions run about 3–9% ABV.
Chupa Chups
Chupa Chups is a Spanish lollipop brand founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, famous for its Salvador Dali daisy logo and 1995 Mir space-station first; owned by Perfetti Van Melle since 2006.
Churrasco
Churrasco, also called churrasco à gaúcha or Brazilian barbecue, is South American meat roasted unseasoned over embers on skewers or grills. It is the emblematic dish of Rio Grande do Sul's gaúcho culture, seasoned only with coarse salt, served in rodízio churrascarias, and distinct from Argentine asado.
Churro
Churro: a deep-fried stick of scalded wheat-flour dough (flour, water, salt) extruded through a star tip, a Spanish and Latin American breakfast pastry; related to porras, distinct from doughnuts, with disputed origins and a growing global market.