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Culinary tourism
Culinary tourism, also called food tourism or gastronomy tourism, is intentional, exploratory engagement with unfamiliar foodways. Coined by folklorist Lucy Long (1996), it spans scholarship, industry, and curiosity-driven eating.
Culture of Eritrea
Culture of Eritrea: heritage of Eritrea's peoples, rooted in Aksum, with Tigrinya language, 1960s-rooted music, Italian-influenced cuisine, and the bun coffee ceremony (jebena, three rounds awel, kale'i, baraka) as its central daily ritual.
Culture of Ireland
Culture of Ireland: the island's food, drink, festivals and hospitality traditions. Rooted in Neolithic cattle farming and the potato, now defined by dairy and grass-fed beef exports, Blas na hÉireann awards, Michelin-starred restaurants and the diaspora-shaped St Patrick's Day.
Culture of Italy
Culture of Italy: the arts, languages, family customs, and food traditions of the Italian peninsula. Key facts: UNESCO intangible heritage listing of Italian cooking (2025), 62 World Heritage sites, regional dialects, opera, and the passeggiata.
Cultured corn starch (Corynebacterium fermentate)
Cultured corn starch (Corynebacterium fermentate), also called corn sauce, is corn starch hydrolyzed by food-grade enzymes and fermented by Corynebacterium glutamicum or C. stationis; Nestlé notified FDA as GRAS in GRN 792 and 793, closed April 26, 2019, for savory foods at 0.76% or 0.25%.
Culver's
Culver's is an American fast-casual chain founded July 18, 1984 in Sauk City, Wisconsin by Craig and Lea Culver, known for ButterBurgers and Fresh Frozen Custard, with 1,041 restaurants in 26 states.
Cumberland sausage
Cumberland sausage: English pork sausage from Cumbria, sold as an unlinked spiral coil, coarse-cut, heavily peppered. Protected as Traditional Cumberland Sausage (PGI) since EU registration in March 2011.
Cup
Cup: a small open drinking vessel, from Old English cuppe via Late Latin cuppa. Covers skull-cup and skaal roots, wassail and loving cup customs, Inka queros, and the Dixie and SOLO disposable cups born of germ campaigns.
Cup Noodles
Cup Noodles (カップヌードル) is Nissin's instant ramen in a foam cup, launched September 18, 1971 by Momofuku Ando as the world's first cup-type noodles; over 50 billion servings sold in 100 countries.
Cupcake
Cupcake: a small individual cake baked in a muffin tin, named for the early 19th-century "cup cake" measured by the cup; first printed by Eliza Leslie in 1828; gourmet boom from Magnolia Bakery, 1996.
Curaçao (liqueur)
Curaçao is an orange liqueur first made with dried laraha orange peel from the Caribbean island of Curaçao, used in drinks like the Margarita and Long Island Iced Tea.
Curd
Curd is the solid casein gel formed when milk coagulates by acid, rennet, or acid plus heat, separating from whey; it is the basis of cheese, paneer, cottage cheese, and, in Indian usage, yogurt.
Curing (food preservation)
Curing (food preservation): adding salt, nitrate or nitrite, and sometimes sugar to meat or fish to preserve it, inhibit Clostridium botulinum, and give cured meat its pink color and flavor; distinct from pickling and smoking alone.
Curing salt
Curing salt (Prague Powder, Insta Cure, pink curing salt) is table salt blended with sodium nitrite, 6.25% in Cure #1, plus nitrate in Cure #2, used at 0.25% of meat weight to prevent botulism and fix cured color.
Curry
Curry, from Tamil kari (sauce), is the Western term for spiced sauce-based South Asian and Southeast Asian dishes and for British-invented curry powder, a blend Indian cuisine itself does not use as a standard.
Curry powder
Curry powder, also called Madras or curry spice, is a British-invented pre-mixed spice blend built on turmeric, coriander, and cumin, rarely used in India, with distinct Jamaican, Japanese, and Sri Lankan variants.
Currywurst
Currywurst (curry sausage) is a German fast-food dish of sliced fried sausage with curry ketchup, attributed to Herta Heuwer, Berlin, 4 September 1949, trademarked as "Chillup" in 1959, with rival Hamburg, Duisburg, and Ruhr claims and a famous Volkswagen factory version.
Curtis Stone
Curtis Stone, Australian chef from Melbourne, trained under Marco Pierre White at Quo Vadis, hosted Take Home Chef and Top Chef Masters, and ran Michelin-starred Maude and Gwen in Los Angeles.
Custard
Custard: milk or cream cooked with eggs and sugar, thickened by egg-protein coagulation near 80°C; also called crème anglaise. Covers stirred, baked, and savory types, etymology from crustade, Bird's custard powder, and food safety.
Custom crush winemaking
Custom crush winemaking: a licensed bonded winery produces wine for clients who own the grapes or wine and market it under their own label, avoiding winery capital costs; distinct from alternating proprietorship.
Cut of beef
Cut of beef: portions of a cattle carcass separated into primal, subprimal, and retail cuts such as chuck, rib, loin, and round. Distinguished by USDA carcass grading (Prime, Choice, Select by marbling and maturity), muscle-driven tenderness, and matching cooking methods.
Cut of pork
Cut of pork: portions of a pig carcass separated into primals (US: shoulder, loin, side, leg; Canadian: leg, loin, shoulder, lacone, belly) and retail cuts such as chops, ribs, belly, and ham, with standardized names and safe cooking temperatures.
Cutlery
Cutlery (US: silverware, flatware) is the set of knives, forks, and spoons for eating; from Latin cultellus via Old French coutellerie, historically tied to Sheffield, standardized under ISO/TC 186.
Cutlet
Cutlet: a small piece of meat or a breaded patty of minced meat, fish, or vegetables, from French côtelette (1706). Covers schnitzel, cotoletta alla milanese, tonkatsu, and Indian cutlets.
Cutthroat Kitchen
Cutthroat Kitchen is an American cooking competition series hosted by Alton Brown on Food Network from 2013 to 2017, in which chefs bid to sabotage rivals.
Cutty Sark (whisky)
Cutty Sark is a blended Scotch whisky brand created in 1923 by Berry Bros. & Rudd, named after the tea clipper ship. Known for its yellow McBey label, Prohibition-era US smuggling ties, the 1961 million-case US milestone, and current ownership by La Martiniquaise-Bardinet.
Cuvée
Cuvée (from French cuve, vat) is a wine term meaning a batch of wine made in one vat, a blend or assemblage of wines, the first-pressed juice in Champagne, or a producer's prestige bottling; it has no single legal definition.
Cynar
Cynar: Italian artichoke-based bittersweet amaro liqueur (16.5% ABV) with 13 herbs, created by Angelo Dalle Molle in 1952, owned by Campari Group; also Cynar 70 (35%).
Czech cuisine
Czech cuisine (česká kuchyně): Central European cooking built on pork, flour, root vegetables, cabbage and cream, known for svíčková with bread dumplings (knedlíky), thick sauces, sweet main dishes, regional specialties like Wallachian frgál and Třeboň carp, and a first national Michelin Guide in 2025.
Da Hong Pao (大红袍)
Da Hong Pao (大红袍) is a famous Wuyi rock tea oolong from Mount Wuyi, Fujian. Six protected mother trees at Jiulongke, unpicked since 2006; Qi Dan certified 2012; pure-variety and blended commercial forms; 2006 national intangible heritage craft.