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Cornetto (frozen dessert)
Cornetto is a chocolate-lined wafer cone ice cream brand invented in 1959 by Spica of Naples, acquired by Unilever in 1976, and now a power brand of The Magnum Ice Cream Company, sold as Algida, Wall's, or Kibon by market.
CorningWare
CorningWare is a Corning-introduced (1958) cookware brand originally made of Pyroceram glass-ceramic, stovetop-safe with near-zero thermal expansion; since 2000 mostly stoneware, now under Corelle Brands.
Corona (beer)
Corona, mostly sold as Corona Extra, is a Mexican pale lager first brewed in 1925 at Cervecería Modelo in Mexico City. Known for its clear bottle, lime ritual, 4.5 to 4.6% ABV, and Kantar BrandZ's most valuable beer brand ranking, distinct from Modelo Especial.
Corrugated fiberboard
Corrugated fiberboard, also called corrugated cardboard, is a paper sandwich of fluted medium glued between linerboard, used for shipping boxes. Covers structure, 1871 Jones patent, flutes, ECT testing, FEFCO codes, and recycling rates above 90% in Europe.
Cortado
Cortado (Spanish, from cortar, "to cut"): espresso cut with roughly equal warm, untextured milk, no foam, served in a small glass; Basque origin, known in the US as the Gibraltar, distinct from macchiato and flat white.
Cosmopolitan (cocktail)
Cosmopolitan (Cosmo): a vodka sour of citrus vodka, Cointreau, fresh lime, and cranberry juice, shaken and served up. IBA spec 40/15/15/30 ml; standard version created by Toby Cecchini at the Odeon, 1988; 1990s Sex and the City fame.
Costa Coffee
Costa Coffee, British coffeehouse chain founded 1971 in London by Sergio and Bruno Costa, known for its Mocha Italia blend; owned by Coca-Cola since 2019; overtaken by Greggs in 2026 as the UK's largest branded coffee operator.
Costco
Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American membership warehouse club retailer headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, operating 928 warehouses worldwide in 2026 and selling brand-name goods at low prices.
Costermonger
A costermonger, also coster or costardmonger, was a British street seller of fruit, vegetables, and often fish from a barrow or cart, named after the medieval costard apple.
Côtes du Rhône AOC
Côtes du Rhône AOC, the regional appellation of France's Rhône Valley recognized in 1937, covering 172 communes and 26,777 ha, producing mostly red blends from 27 permitted grape varieties.
Cotija cheese
Cotija cheese (queso Cotija), also called queso añejo, is a hard, salty, raw-milk Mexican cow's-milk cheese from the Sierra de Jalmich between Michoacán and Jalisco, aged months to a year, grated over elote and beans, protected by the 2005 collective mark and norm NMX-F-735-COFOCALEC-2011.
Cottage cheese
Cottage cheese: a fresh, unripened acid-coagulated soft cheese of washed curd particles (3–12 mm), often cream-dressed; named in 19th-century North America (Bartlett 1848), distinct from ricotta and quark.
Cotton candy
Cotton candy, also called candy floss or fairy floss, is a spun-sugar confection of fine amorphous sugar threads, invented in 1897 by dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton and popularized at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Court of Master Sommeliers
Court of Master Sommeliers (CMS), sommelier examining body formed in 1977 after the 1969 London Master Sommelier exam; four sequential levels from Introductory to the invitation-only Master Sommelier Diploma held by 305 people, split into CMS Europe and CMS Americas.
Courtney Storer
Courtney "Coco" Storer is an American chef and the culinary producer (and co-executive producer) of FX's The Bear, sister of creator Christopher Storer; ex-culinary director of Jon & Vinny's, trained the cast, runs Coco's to Go-Go catering.
Couscous
Couscous (seksu; kuskus) is a Maghrebi grain product of rolled durum wheat semolina granules steamed in a couscoussier, staple of North Africa, inscribed on UNESCO's 2020 Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Crab Rangoon
Crab rangoon, also called crab puffs or cheese wontons, is an American Chinese deep-fried wonton filled with cream cheese and usually imitation crab, attributed to Trader Vic's founder Victor Bergeron in the late 1940s or 1950s.
Cracker (food)
Cracker (food): a plain, unsweetened, dry, hard baked bread product named for the cracking sound it makes; also called savoury biscuit. Covers types (saltine, soda, common cracker), history from hardtack, nutrition, and the $10.6 billion US market.
Cracker Barrel
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is a Lebanon, Tennessee-based American restaurant-and-retail chain founded by Dan Evins in 1969, trading as Nasdaq: CBRL, with nearly 660 company-owned locations in 43 states, known for country cooking, retail gift stores, and the 2025 logo controversy.
Cracker Jack
Cracker Jack is an American snack brand of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts, sold since 1893 and best known for the small prize packaged in every box.
Craft beer
Craft beer: beer from small, independent breweries, defined in the US by the Brewers Association (6 million barrel cap, under 25% non-craft ownership). Roots in 1965 Anchor Brewing; 2025 US market 13.4% by volume, $28.0 billion retail.
Cranberry extract
Cranberry extract (cranberry extract powder), a proanthocyanidin-standardized powder from Vaccinium macrocarpon juice; GRAS under FDA GRN 873 (no questions, May 2020) and EU-authorized novel food, used in beverages and supplements.
Cranberry juice
Cranberry juice, pressed from Vaccinium macrocarpon fruit, exists as tart unsweetened 100% juice and sweetened cranberry juice cocktail (20-27% juice). Known for UTI prevention evidence (Cochrane 2023) but not treatment, with FDA qualified health claims since 2020.
Cream
Cream (dairy): the fat-rich fraction of milk, an oil-in-water emulsion separated centrifugally from whole milk. Fat content ranges from 10.5% (half and half) to 80% (plastic cream); used for butter, ghee, ice cream, and coffee. First continuous separator by Gustaf de Laval, 1877.
Cream cheese
Cream cheese is a soft, mild, spreadable unripened cheese made from milk and cream, created in New York in 1875 and used on bagels, in dips, and in cheesecake.
Cream pie
Cream pie: a chilled American dessert pie with a stovetop custard or pudding filling (milk, eggs, sugar, cornstarch) set in a prebaked crust and topped with whipped cream; distinct from baked custard pies and airy chiffon pies.
Cream soda
Cream soda: vanilla-flavored carbonated soft drink of water, sweetener, and vanilla; no dairy. First recipe 1852 (E.M. Sheldon, Michigan Farmer); Dr. Brown's 1868; pink in Canada, melon float in Japan; 2.5-2.8 gas volumes.
Cream tea
Cream tea: a British West Country meal of scones with clotted cream and jam plus tea. Devon serves cream first, Cornwall jam first; clotted cream must be at least 55% milk fat.
Crème brûlée
Crème brûlée, French "burnt cream", is a vanilla custard of cream and egg yolks baked in a bain-marie and topped with caramelized sugar; first printed by Massialot in 1691, distinct from crema catalana.
Crème caramel
Crème caramel, also called caramel custard or flan, is a baked egg-and-milk custard cooked in a caramel-lined mold in a water bath and unmolded so the caramel becomes a soft sauce on top.