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Coffeehouse
A coffeehouse is a business selling prepared coffee and, historically, a social institution built on conversation, news, and debate, beginning in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century.
Coffeemaker
Coffeemaker: appliance that brews coffee by heating water and passing it through grounds; types include drip, espresso, moka, capsule, and bean-to-cup machines, from 5-cup domestic to 500-cup commercial duty.
Cognac
Cognac: French AOC wine eau-de-vie from Charente and Charente-Maritime, double-distilled in Charentais pot stills, oak-aged at least two years, BNIC-enforced, over 95% exported.
Cola
Cola: a caffeinated, caramel-colored carbonated soft drink named for coca leaves and kola nuts. Created with Coca-Cola (1886, Pemberton); rivals include Pepsi; typical caffeine about 35 mg per 12-oz can.
Cola wars
Cola wars: the century-long Coca-Cola versus Pepsi rivalry of advertising, Pepsi Challenge blind taste tests, and the 1985 New Coke debacle; Coke led the market while Pepsi won blind tastings, and Pepsi fell to fourth in US sales by 2024.
Colby cheese
Colby cheese: American semi-firm washed-curd cow's-milk cheese created in 1885 by Joseph Steinwand in Colby, Wisconsin; orange from annatto, under 40% moisture, aged 1–3 months, milder than cheddar, base of Colby-Jack.
Colcannon
Colcannon (cál ceannann, "white-headed cabbage") is the traditional Irish dish of mashed potatoes with kale or cabbage, butter and milk, served at Halloween with hidden ring, coin or thimble tokens for fortune-telling, distinct from scallion-based champ.
Cold beet soup
Cold beet soup, Lithuanian šaltibarščiai, Polish chłodnik litewski, Belarusian chaladnik: a pink chilled soup of beets, kefir or buttermilk, cucumber, dill and egg, served with hot boiled potatoes; documented from mid-19th-century cookbooks and celebrated at Vilnius Pink Soup Fest.
Cold brew coffee
Cold brew coffee is a coffee made by steeping coarse grounds in cold or room-temperature water, also called Kyoto-style or Dutch coffee, for 12-24 hours, yielding a smooth, lower-titratable-acidity drink; sold mainly as ready-to-drink products in a USD 3.87 billion 2025 market.
Cold Stone Creamery
Cold Stone Creamery is an American ice cream chain founded in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona, where ice cream is hand-mixed with toppings on a frozen granite stone.
Cold-pressed juice
Cold-pressed juice: fruit or vegetable juice extracted by hydraulic press after crushing, without centrifugal or heat processing. Defined by grind-and-press method, 5-log FDA pathogen reduction rules, disputed nutrition claims.
Coleslaw
Coleslaw (koolsla) is a cold salad of shredded raw cabbage with mayonnaise or vinegar dressing, from Dutch koolsla; first recorded 1794 as "cold slaw", served with barbecue, kept 3-5 days refrigerated.
Colin the Caterpillar
Colin the Caterpillar is M&S's chocolate celebration cake, sold since 1990 and made by Park Cakes in Oldham; over 15 million sold, known for the M&S v Aldi Cuthbert trademark dispute, Connie the Caterpillar, and Arctic Colin.
College Street Coffee House
The College Street Coffee House, formally the Indian Coffee House at Albert Hall, is a worker-owned café in Kolkata, long the city's best-known venue for intellectual adda.
Colombian cuisine
Colombian cuisine: the regional culinary traditions of Colombia, formed by indigenous, European, and African influences across Andean, Caribbean, Pacific, Llanos, Amazonian, and Insular regions, with dishes like bandeja paisa, ajiaco, sancocho, and many arepa varieties.
Colonel Sanders
Colonel Sanders, born Harland David Sanders (1890–1980), was the American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Honorary Kentucky colonel (1935), creator of the 11 herbs and spices recipe and pressure frying; sold KFC for $2 million in 1964 and remained its brand ambassador until his death.
Colt 45 (malt liquor)
Colt 45 is an American malt liquor brand introduced in 1963 by Baltimore's National Brewing Company, named for Colts running back Jerry Hill, now owned by Pabst, 5.61% ABV in the US, famous for Billy Dee Williams' "It works every time" slogan.
Columbus-style pizza
Columbus-style pizza, also called square, party, or tavern cut, is a Columbus, Ohio tradition: thin yeast-risen deck-oven crust, sweet-leaning sauce, provolone, edge-to-edge pepperoni, cut into small squares.
Come Dine with Me
Come Dine with Me is a British Channel 4 reality series (2005, MultiStory Media/ITV Studios) in which five strangers host dinner parties, secretly score each other out of 10, and the top host wins £1,000; narrated by Dave Lamb, adapted in 50 territories with over 20,000 episodes.
Comet Ping Pong
Comet Ping Pong is a wood-fired pizza pizzeria, bar, and music venue on Connecticut Ave NW in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C., opened October 2006 by James Alefantis and Carole Greenwood, known for free ping pong and as the target of the false 2016 Pizzagate conspiracy and its armed "self-investigator" shooting.
Comfort food
Comfort food: foods providing emotional consolation and well-being, tied to nostalgia and childhood. Term traced to 1966-1977 US newspapers; US favorites include chips, ice cream; mood benefits debated.
Common Agricultural Policy
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): the EU's longest standing policy, created 1962, supporting farmers, markets, and rural areas with €386.6 billion for 2021-2027 via direct payments, market measures, and rural development.
Compass Group
Compass Group PLC is a British contract food service and support services company on the London Stock Exchange, founded in 1941 as Jack Bateman's Factory Canteens, renamed Compass in 1984, with $46.1 billion FY2025 revenue across five sectors.
Competitive eating
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport of consuming the most food in a fixed time, governed by Major League Eating and best known through Nathan's July 4 hot dog contest, the Kobayashi-Chestnut rivalry, and Chestnut's 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), the Philippines' land redistribution program under Republic Act 6657 of 1988, extended by CARPER in 2009; over 4.8 million hectares distributed to about 2.8 million beneficiaries, with parcelization and debt condonation ongoing toward a 2028 completion target.
Comté cheese
Comté: French AOP raw cow's milk cooked pressed cheese from the Jura massif, made in 40 kg wheels from Montbéliarde milk in cooperative fruitières, aged at least 120 days, France's largest AOP by tonnage.
Condensed milk
Condensed milk, also called sweetened condensed milk, is cow's milk concentrated by water removal with sugar added as preservative; distinct from unsweetened evaporated milk, which is sterilized. Invented commercially by Gail Borden in 1856.
Condiment
Condiment: a prepared sauce, relish, seasoning, or spice mixture added to food after preparation to enhance flavor; includes ketchup, mustard, soy sauce, chutney; classified under Codex Alimentarius category 12.2, distinct from seasonings added during cooking.
Coney Island hot dog
Coney Island hot dog (coney, coney dog): a Midwest hot dog topped with beanless meat chili or sauce, mustard, and onions, created by Greek and Macedonian immigrants who borrowed the New York resort's name, despite originating nowhere near Coney Island.
Confectionery
Confectionery, also known as sweetmeats or confections, is the class of sweet, sugar-rich foods including candies, sweets, and chocolate, together with the industry and craft that make them.