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Dagwood sandwich
Dagwood sandwich: a tall, many-layered American sandwich of meats, cheeses, and condiments, named for Dagwood Bumstead of the Blondie comic strip (first skyscraper sandwich 1936, recipe 1947); also called Skyscraper Special; no fixed recipe.
Daim bar
Daim bar (formerly Dajm, once Dime Bar in the UK): Swedish thin chocolate bar of crunchy almond caramel in milk chocolate, created by Marabou in the early 1950s, inspired by the Heath Bar, renamed Daim in 1990, now a Mondelēz brand made in Upplands Väsby, Sweden.
Daiquiri
Daiquiri, a Cuban rum, lime, and sugar cocktail named after the village of Daiquirí, credited to Jennings Cox (1896 or 1898), spread via Admiral Lucius Johnson, and refined frozen at El Floridita.
Dairy product
Dairy products are foods made from milk, including drinking milk, fermented milks, cheese, butter, and whey products. EU law reserves names like yogurt and kephir; EU farms produced 160.0 million tonnes of raw milk in 2022.
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen (DQ) is an American soft-serve ice cream and fast-food chain founded in Joliet, Illinois, in 1940, known for the Blizzard treat. Owned by Berkshire Hathaway's International Dairy Queen, it runs 7,800+ restaurants in 20+ countries.
Dal
Dal (dhal; Hindi दाल, from Sanskrit dalaḥ, 'to split') names both dried, hulled, split pulses (lentil, mung, urad, chana, toor) and the tempered South Asian stew made from them, eaten daily with rice or roti.
Dal bati (दाल बाटी)
Dal bati (दाल बाटी), served with dal as dal baati churma, is Rajasthan's baked wheat dough balls soaked in ghee, eaten with panchmel dal and sweet crushed churma; its boiled-then-baked Malwa cousin is dal bafla, distinct from Bihar's sattu-stuffed litti chokha.
Dalgona coffee (달고나 커피)
Dalgona coffee (달고나 커피), also called whipped coffee or café dalgona, is a frothy drink of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water whipped and spooned over milk; named after Korean dalgona candy in January 2020, it became the world's most searched coffee during the pandemic.
Dallah (دلة) (coffee pot)
Dallah (دلة): the long-spouted brass or copper coffee pot of Arabia used to brew and serve gahwa (Arabic coffee), central to Gulf hospitality; three-pot sets (khumra, talquma, mazla), UAE one-dirham coin emblem, UNESCO-listed since 2015.
Damaris Phillips
Damaris Phillips (Damaris Lennon Phillips), born 1980, is an American chef and TV personality who won Food Network Star season 9 (2013), hosted Southern at Heart, co-hosts The Bobby and Damaris Show, and wrote Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy.
Dandan noodles (担担面)
Dandan noodles (担担面) is a Sichuan dish of thin wheat noodles with chili oil, Sichuan pepper, preserved ya cai, and crisp minced pork, sold from shoulder poles.
Dandelion and burdock
Dandelion and burdock (D'n'B) is a traditional British carbonated soft drink flavoured with dandelion and burdock root extracts, earthy and aniseed in taste. Descended from medieval herbal brewing, sold by Barr, Ben Shaws, and Fentimans; category sugar content fell from 34 to 16 kcal/100 mL between 2014 and 2018.
Danger zone (food safety)
The danger zone in food safety is the temperature range, roughly 5–60°C (41–135°F per FDA Food Code; 40–140°F per USDA), where bacteria multiply rapidly; rules limit time in it and mandate two-stage cooling.
Daniel Boulud
Daniel Boulud (born 1955) is a French chef-restaurateur from Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu near Lyon, based in New York since 1982; founder of The Dinex Group and of the flagship restaurant Daniel (1993), a James Beard and Michelin-starred empire.
Daniel Humm
Daniel Humm is a Swiss chef and owner of New York's Eleven Madison Park, which he made the first three-Michelin-star plant-based restaurant in 2021, after it was named World's Best Restaurant in 2017.
Daniel Lubetzky
Daniel Lubetzky (born 1968, Mexico City) is the Mexican-American founder of KIND Snacks, sold to Mars, a Shark Tank investor since 2024, and founder of PeaceWorks, OneVoice, Camino Partners, and the Builders Movement.
Danish cuisine
Danish cuisine (dansk køkken) is Denmark's food tradition of rye bread, pork, fish, and dairy, known for smørrebrød and the national dish stegt flæsk, and since 2004 for New Nordic Cuisine and Copenhagen's Noma.
Danish pastry
Danish pastry, called wienerbrød ("Viennese bread") in Denmark, is a sweet yeasted laminated pastry enriched with eggs and sugar, layered at roughly 24–54 fat folds, distinct from croissant and puff pastry, with Danish origins in 1840s Copenhagen.
Danny Meyer
Danny Meyer (Daniel Harris Meyer, born 1958) is the St. Louis-born New York restaurateur behind Union Square Hospitality Group, Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake Shack, founder of Enlightened Hospitality and the 2015 Hospitality Included no-tipping experiment.
Danone
Danone, French food and beverage multinational founded 1919 in Barcelona by Isaac Carasso, named after son Daniel; Paris headquarters, Euronext Paris listed; three categories (dairy and plant-based, waters, specialized nutrition), €27.3bn 2025 sales, B Corp certified, Société à Mission pioneer.
Daphne Oz
Daphne Nur Oz, born 1986, daughter of Dr. Mehmet Oz, is an Emmy-winning American TV host and cookbook author, formerly co-host of The Chew and The Good Dish, now a MasterChef Junior judge.
Darden Restaurants
Darden Restaurants is a full-service restaurant company headquartered in Orlando, Florida, whose brands include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Yard House, and The Capital Grille, spun off from General Mills in 1995.
Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling tea, the "champagne of teas", is a GI-protected Himalayan black tea from 87 gardens in West Bengal's Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts, grown from Chinese-variety bushes at up to 2,000 m, prized for muscatel flavor and sold in four flushes.
Dark 'n' stormy
Dark 'n' stormy: Bermuda's trademarked highball of dark rum (Goslings Black Seal), ginger beer, and lime, attributed to British sailors after World War I and legally restricted to Goslings rum since 1991.
Dark chocolate
Dark chocolate: high-cocoa, low-milk chocolate labeled by cocoa percentage, melting at 32–34°C, rich in flavanols like epicatechin; used in ganache, mole, and baking, with EFSA suggesting 10 g/day high-flavanol chocolate.
Dasani
Dasani is The Coca-Cola Company's purified bottled water brand, launched 1999, made from municipal water by reverse osmosis with added magnesium sulfate and potassium chloride; withdrawn from the UK in 2004 over bromate.
Dashi (出汁)
Dashi (出汁, だし) is Japanese soup stock made by extracting umami from kombu, katsuobushi, niboshi, or dried shiitake. Key facts: glutamate-inosinate synergy, ichiban and niban dashi, Ikeda's 1908 umami discovery.
Dave & Buster's
Dave & Buster's is an American chain of large venues that combine a full-service restaurant and bar with an arcade and sports viewing, founded in Dallas in 1982.
Dave Arnold
Dave Arnold (born 1971) is an American culinary technology innovator, founder of the Museum of Food and Drink, former head of the French Culinary Institute's culinary technology department, co-creator of the Booker and Dax bar with David Chang, and author of the James Beard-winning Liquid Intelligence.
Dave Dahl (entrepreneur)
Dave Dahl (born 1963) is the American co-founder of Dave's Killer Bread, launched at Portland Farmers Market in 2005 after his 15 years in prison; sold to Flowers Foods for $275 million in 2015.