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Confit
Confit (from French confire, to preserve): food, classically salt-cured duck or goose, slow-cooked fully submerged in fat at 80–120 °C and stored under the fat; a Gascon preservation technique, distinct from frying, braising, and confiture, now also applied to garlic, tomatoes, and fish.
Confit byaldi
Confit byaldi is a refined baked variation of ratatouille created by Michel Guérard in 1976, named after the Turkish imam bayıldı, and popularized worldwide by Thomas Keller's version in the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille.
Congee
Congee (粥, jook, zhōu, okayu, cháo) is Asian rice porridge: rice simmered in excess water until grains break down. Etymology from Tamil kanji; documented since Zhou dynasty; eaten at 5:1–14:1 water ratios; IDDSI swallowing-safety relevance.
Consommé
Consommé: a French clarified soup, from consommer, made by simmering stock with egg whites that form a raft trapping impurities; rich, gelatinous, crystal-clear, up to 500 g meat per serving.
Convenience food
Convenience food is food made quicker or easier to prepare through processing or packaging, spanning frozen TV dinners, canned goods, and instant meals; defined by reduced household labor, tied to Birdseye quick-freezing and Swanson's 1954 TV dinner.
Convenience store
Convenience store: small-format retail shop selling snacks, beverages, groceries, and often fuel, with extended hours; originated 1927 in Texas (7-Eleven), 151,975 US stores selling 80% of US fuel, and a distinct dense Japanese konbini variant.
Conveyor belt sushi
Conveyor belt sushi (kaiten-zushi, 回転寿司): Japanese restaurant format where plates travel on a belt past diners. Invented by Yoshiaki Shiraishi, first shop Mawaru Genroku Sushi, Osaka, 1958; belt speed 8 cm/s; major chains Sushiro, Kura, Hama, Kappa.
Cook Out (restaurant)
Cook Out is a privately held American fast-food chain founded by Morris Reaves in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1989, known for char-grilled burgers, barbecue, and over 40 milkshake flavors.
Cook Up a Storm (决战食神)
Cook Up a Storm (決戰食神) is a 2017 Hong Kong–Chinese culinary comedy-drama directed by Raymond Yip, starring Nicholas Tse, Jung Yong-hwa, and Ge You, released in China in February 2017.
Cook's Country
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen is a PBS cooking series, first aired September 6, 2008, reimagining American regional and family recipes with test-kitchen testing, equipment reviews, taste tests, and Toni Tipton-Martin food-history segments.
Cookbook
Cookbook (cookery book): a book of recipes and food-preparation information, a handbook-genre nonfiction form dating to Mesopotamian clay tablets ca. 1700 BCE, flourishing in late-medieval manuscripts and fifteenth-century printing.
Cookie
Cookie (Dutch koekje; UK biscuit): small sweet low-moisture, high-fat, high-sugar baked good; texture set by spread, gluten setting, and Maillard browning; $140bn global market.
Cookie Crisp
Cookie Crisp: chocolate chip cookie flavored breakfast cereal launched in 1977 by Ralston Purina, now made by General Mills (US) and Nestlé (UK, Middle East); mascots Cookie Jarvis, Cookie Crook, Chip the Wolf.
Cooking
Cooking: applying heat to food to improve flavor, safety, and digestibility. Covers heat transfer, moist and dry cooking methods, nutrition effects, food safety temperatures, and the history of cooking from fire use to sous vide.
Cooking oil
Cooking oil, edible fat of vegetable, animal, or marine origin composed of glycerides of fatty acids; includes virgin, cold pressed, and refined grades. Smoke point depends on free fatty acids; used cooking oil is now a major biofuel feedstock.
Cooking show
Cooking show (also cookery show, cooking program): television program presenting food preparation in a studio kitchen, from BBC's 1946 Cookery and James Beard's I Love to Eat to Julia Child, the 1993 Food Network, competition franchises, and streaming docuseries.
Cooku with Comali
Cooku with Comali (குக் வித் கோமாளி), also Cook with Comali, is a Tamil comedy cooking competition on Star Vijay and Disney+ Hotstar, pairing celebrity cooks with comedians since 2019 across seven seasons.
Cookware and bakeware
Cookware and bakeware are kitchen vessels: cookware for stovetop or oven cooking (saucepans, skillets, stock pots), bakeware for oven baking (cake pans, muffin tins, baking sheets). Key distinctions include materials, heat behavior, PFAS coatings, and safety limits.
Cool Whip
Cool Whip is Kraft Heinz's frozen whipped topping, invented by William A. Mitchell at General Foods' Birds Eye division and launched in 1966. Made of water, corn syrups, hydrogenated vegetable oil, and stabilizers, about 200 million tubs sell yearly.
Coors Brewing Company
Coors Brewing Company, founded 1873 in Golden, Colorado by Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler, is the American brewery behind Coors Banquet and Coors Light, now a Molson Coors subsidiary; known for surviving Prohibition, the 1959 aluminum can, and the long Coors boycott.
Coors Light
Coors Light is an American light lager introduced in 1978 in Golden, Colorado, known as the "Silver Bullet" and among the best-selling beers in the United States.
Copper ion antimicrobial packaging
Copper ion antimicrobial packaging embeds copper or copper-releasing microparticles in food packaging films to kill microbes and extend shelf life; FDA GRN 1147 cleared copper(II) ion at 100 mg/m² in polyolefin packaging.
Coq au vin
Coq au vin: classic French dish of rooster or chicken braised in red wine with lardons, mushrooms, and pearl onions; Burgundian pinot noir version is the reference, with Alsace riesling, Jura vin jaune, and Champagne variants.
Coquito
Coquito is a thick, creamy Puerto Rican holiday drink made with coconut milk, sweetened condensed milk, Puerto Rican rum, and warm spices, often described as the island's version of eggnog.
Cordon bleu (dish)
Cordon bleu (cordon-bleu, "blue ribbon") is a breaded cutlet filled with ham and melted cheese, a Swiss classic attributed to Brig, Valais; the name comes from the Order of Saint Esprit and also denotes a skilled cook and the Le Cordon Bleu school.
Cork taint
Cork taint is a wine fault causing musty, wet-cardboard odors, mainly from 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), first identified in 1982. It affects an estimated 2-5% of bottled wines, costs over a billion dollars yearly, and is largely prevented by screw caps and technical corks.
Corn flakes
Corn flakes are toasted corn breakfast flakes invented at the Battle Creek Sanitarium by John Harvey and Will Kellogg in the 1890s; Will Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906 to mass-produce Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
Corn Laws
Corn Laws: British protectionist grain tariffs and import restrictions enacted in 1815 under Lord Liverpool (wheat threshold 80 shillings per quarter), repealed in June 1846 by Sir Robert Peel, splitting the Conservative Party and beginning Britain's free trade era.
Cornbread
Cornbread is a quick bread of cornmeal, chemically leavened in the U.S., learned from Native American cooking and named pone; Southern versions are unsweetened skillet breads, Northern ones sweet, and it remains central to Southern and Appalachian foodways.
Corned beef
Corned beef: salt-brined (or historically dry-salted, "corns" of salt) beef, usually brisket flat, boiled or slow-cooked; Irish export history via Cork, Irish-American St. Patrick's Day dish, distinct from smoked pastrami; USDA 145°F cooking guidance.