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Dave Myers (presenter)
Dave Myers (1957–2024), English TV presenter and chef, one half of the Hairy Bikers with Si King; former BBC prosthetics makeup artist, Strictly 2013 contestant, died of cancer aged 66.
David Burtka
David Burtka (David Michael Burtka), American actor and Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, husband of Neil Patrick Harris; known for How I Met Your Mother's Scooter, Gourmet M.D. catering, Life Is a Party (2019), and Drag Me to Dinner (2023).
David Chang
David Chang, Korean-American chef, founded Momofuku (Noodle Bar, NYC, 2004), won James Beard Awards, two Michelin stars for Ko, hosted Ugly Delicious, wrote Eat a Peach.
Dean & DeLuca
Dean & DeLuca, also known as Dean and DeLuca, is an American gourmet grocery brand founded in SoHo, New York, in 1977, known for imported foods and minimalist store design.
Debra Ponzek
Debra Ponzek is an American chef from Morristown, New Jersey, the first female chef to win a New York Times three-star review (at Montrachet), and co-founder with Greg Addonizio of Connecticut's Aux Délices gourmet shops.
Decaffeination
Decaffeination removes most caffeine from green coffee beans using water, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, or supercritical CO2. Decaf still holds 2-15 mg caffeine per cup; Roselius patented the first process in 1905, Zosel the CO2 method in 1970.
Deep frying
Deep frying: cooking by full immersion in hot oil above water's boiling point (140–180 °C), forming a crispy crust; most oil uptake occurs during cooling; industrialized since the late 1890s for potato chips.
Deep-fried butter
Deep-fried butter is a state fair food of frozen butter balls or sticks coated in dough and deep fried, created by Abel Gonzales Jr. at the 2009 State Fair of Texas, where it won Most Creative at the Big Tex Choice Awards.
Deep-fried Mars bar
Deep-fried Mars bar: a battered, deep-fried Mars chocolate bar from Scottish chip shops, credited to the Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven (1992), a tourist symbol and stereotype of the Scottish diet.
Del Monte Foods
Del Monte Foods was an American packaged food company in Walnut Creek, California, known for canned fruits, vegetables, and tomatoes under the Del Monte brand, a name since 1886.
Del Taco
Del Taco is an American quick-service restaurant chain, founded in 1964 in Yermo, California, that sells Mexican-inspired food such as tacos and burritos alongside burgers and fries.
Delhaize Group
Delhaize Group was a Belgian food retail company founded in 1867 in Charleroi, known for Food Lion and Hannaford, that merged into Ahold in 2016.
Delia Smith
Delia Smith (born 1941, Woking) is an English cookery writer and TV presenter, author of How to Cheat at Cooking (1971) and the Cookery Course; over 21 million books sold, the 'Delia effect', and co-owner of Norwich City FC.
Delicacy
Delicacy: English noun for a rare or expensive food prized in a particular culture, and for fineness, fragility, tact, or precision; from Middle English delicasie, first recorded 1325–75.
Delicatessen
Delicatessen (deli): shop or supermarket counter selling prepared foods such as cold meats, cheeses, and salads; from German Delikatessen (1877); retail delis are a major source of Listeria monocytogenes risk.
Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a British food delivery platform founded in London in 2013 by Will Shu, operating a three-sided marketplace of consumers, riders and merchants. Acquired by DoorDash for £2.9 billion in October 2025; UK Supreme Court ruled its riders are not workers.
Delmonico's
Delmonico's, founded in New York in 1827 by Swiss brothers Giovanni and Pietro Delmonico, became America's first fine dining restaurant in 1837, birthed the Delmonico steak and dishes like Baked Alaska, closed in 1923, and operates today at 56 Beaver Street.
Denominazione di origine controllata
Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC), with DOCG and IGT, is Italy's wine designation-of-origin system created by DPR 930 in 1963; DOC and DOCG mark EU PDO wines under a disciplinare, DOCG adding batch tasting and a numbered state seal.
Desi daru (देसी दारू)
Desi daru (देसी दारू), also deshi sharab or country liquor, is Indian locally distilled spirits from molasses, mahua, rice, gur, or palm sap, typically 30-33% ethanol versus 42.8% IMFL, legal under state excise laws but repeatedly linked to methanol-laced illicit hooch deaths.
Dessert
Dessert is the sweet course served at the end of a meal, typically including cake, pie, fruit, pudding, and ice cream; the word comes from the French desservir, meaning "to clear the table".
Dessert wine
Dessert wine, also called pudding wine, is a sweet wine served with or as dessert, made by late harvest, noble rot, freezing, drying, or fortification.
Desugared orange juice
Desugared orange juice, or desugared fermented orange juice (GRN 679), is orange juice fermented with Schizosaccharomyces pombe to remove sugars, then pasteurized and dealcoholized; FDA had no questions in 2017.
Detroit-style pizza
Detroit-style pizza, born 1946 at Buddy's Rendezvous in Detroit, is a rectangular pan pizza with Wisconsin brick cheese caramelized to the edges (frico) and sauce on top, now a nationally trending style.
Deviled egg
Deviled eggs, also called stuffed, dressed, salad, angel, or Russian eggs, are halved hard-boiled eggs refilled with a yolk-mayonnaise-mustard paste, topped with paprika; traced to ancient Rome, named in 1786 Britain, popularized in 1940s America.
Dewar's
Dewar's is a blended Scotch whisky brand founded by John Dewar in Perth, Scotland, in 1846, now owned by Bacardi. Known for Double Ageing since 1881, five distilleries including Aberfeldy, White Label, and over 1,500 awards.
Diageo
Diageo plc, formed by the 1997 merger of Grand Metropolitan and Guinness, is a British beverage alcohol company selling Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Smirnoff and other brands in about 180 countries, ranked first in international spirits by retail sales value.
Diet Coke
Diet Coke (Coca-Cola Light in some markets) is The Coca-Cola Company's sugar-free, calorie-free cola, launched July 8, 1982 as the first Coca-Cola trademark extension, sweetened with aspartame and distinct in taste from Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.
Diet in Hinduism
Diet in Hinduism covers food rules varying by tradition, caste, and region: lacto-vegetarianism favored, beef taboo (72% say beef eaters cannot be Hindu), 44% of Indian Hindus vegetarian, Ekadashi fasting, and Dharmaśāstra abhakṣya rules.
Diet in Sikhism
Diet in Sikhism is the set of food practices followed by Sikhs, prohibiting kutha meat and alcohol and centering communal life on the free vegetarian langar meal.
Dieter Schwarz
Dieter Schwarz (born 1939, Heilbronn) is a German entrepreneur who built Lidl & Schwarz into the Schwarz Group, parent of the Lidl discount stores and Kaufland hypermarkets.