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Doneness
Doneness is the degree to which food, especially meat, is cooked to a desired sensory state (rare through well done), distinct from safety temperatures. USDA minimums: 145°F steaks and fish, 160°F ground meats, 165°F poultry, verified only by thermometer.
Doner kebab
Doner kebab (döner kebap) is seasoned meat roasted on a vertical rotating spit and carved in thin slices; the sandwich form was popularized in Berlin from 1972 by Kadir Nurman and became a German fast-food staple.
DoorDash
DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH), founded 2013 as Palo Alto Delivery Inc., is a San Francisco-based local commerce platform operating the DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo marketplaces in over 40 countries, with $102.0 billion Marketplace GOV and 3.2 billion orders in 2025, distinct from Uber Eats by its Commerce Platform and Dasher contractor model.
Dorayaki (どら焼き)
Dorayaki (どら焼き, 銅鑼焼き), also called Mikasa in Kansai, is a Japanese wagashi of two castella-like griddle-baked pancakes sandwiching azuki anko; named for its gong-like shape, modernized in Meiji-era Tokyo.
Doritos
Doritos is a PepsiCo Frito-Lay brand of triangular seasoned tortilla chips, born at Disneyland's Casa de Fritos in the early 1960s and launched nationally in 1966; it held 44.7% of the US tortilla chip market in 2022.
Dosa (food)
Dosa (dosai), the fermented rice-and-urad-dal crepe of South India, is a crisp breakfast staple served with sambar and chutney; attested in Tamil literature from roughly the sixth century AD and now a global dish.
Dosirak (도시락)
Dosirak (도시락) is the Korean packed meal; North Korea calls it 곽밥. Also the name of Paldo's Doshirak instant noodles, which lead ramen markets in Russia and Uzbekistan.
Doubanjiang (豆瓣酱)
Doubanjiang (豆瓣酱, toban djan), Chinese fermented broad bean or chili bean paste; Pixian douban of Chengdu is the GI-protected soul of Sichuan cuisine, base of mapo tofu and hotpot.
Double Down (sandwich)
The KFC Double Down is a bunless sandwich of two fried chicken filets holding bacon, cheese, and sauce. Debuted 2010, over 10 million sold in the first month; returned 2014 and 2023 with international variants.
Dough
Dough: a kneadable flour-and-water paste used for bread, pasta, pastry, and biscuits. Distinguished by gluten development, leavening (yeast, steam, none), and fat content; kneading parameters govern bread quality.
Doughnut
Doughnut (donut): a deep-fried ring, ball, or filled sweet dough, leavened with yeast or baking powder. Dutch oliekoecken roots in America; first recorded 1809 by Washington Irving; global market about USD 11.62 billion in 2025.
Doughnut shop
Doughnut shop, also donut shop: a retail eatery selling doughnuts and coffee. Key facts include Adolph Levitt's 1920 doughnut machine, Krispy Kreme (1937) and Dunkin' (1948) chains, and Cambodian American shop ownership.
Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper is an American carbonated soft drink created in 1885 in Waco, Texas, by pharmacist Charles Alderton with a 23-flavor blend. Owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, not PepsiCo or Coca-Cola; the oldest major US soft drink, famously ruled not a cola in 1963.
Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS), Plano, Texas-based non-alcoholic beverage company formed in 2008 from the Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages spinoff; owned Dr Pepper, Snapple, 7UP, Canada Dry, A&W; merged with Keurig Green Mountain in 2018 to form Keurig Dr Pepper.
Dr. Oetker
Dr. Oetker is a German family-owned food company founded by pharmacist Dr. August Oetker in Bielefeld in 1891. Known for Backin baking powder (1893) and Germany's first frozen pizza (1970), it operates in over 40 countries with €4.3 billion food revenue.
Dragée
Dragée: French sugar-coated confection (Jordan almond, comfit, mlabas ملبس), a nut, seed, chocolate, or liqueur center built up by panning with layers of hardened sugar; also decorative sugar balls and sugar-coated pills.
Dram shop
Dram shop laws, also called commercial host liability, are U.S. state laws holding alcohol sellers liable for harm by visibly intoxicated or underage patrons; adopted in over 40 states and DC, absent in Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, and Virginia.
Drambuie
Drambuie is a Scottish liqueur made from aged blended Scotch whisky, heather honey, and herbs, bottled at 40% ABV and known for the Rusty Nail cocktail.
Draught beer
Draught (draft) beer: beer of any style served from a cask or keg rather than bottle or can. Covers unpressurized cask ale and pressurized keg dispense, 38°F/12-15 PSI balance, line cleaning, and its 53.1% US on-premise volume share.
Drink
Drink (beverage): liquid for human consumption, from water and milk to beer, wine, tea, coffee, and soft drinks. Distinguished by the recent, post-agricultural appearance of all drinks except water and breast milk, and weak caloric compensation for sugary and alcoholic beverages.
Drink can
Drink can (beverage can): two-piece steel or aluminum container for soft drinks and beer. First canned beer 1935 (Krueger); aluminum from 1958; Alcoa pull tab 1962; Reynolds stay-on tab 1975; over 70% recycled.
Drinking game
Drinking game: rule-governed social game, also called DG, requiring players to drink on cues, promoting rapid intoxication; ancient forms include Greek kottabos and Tang dynasty gong penalties; strongly linked to binge drinking among college students.
Drinking in public
Drinking in public means consuming alcohol in streets, parks, transport, and public events. WHO tracks public-place restrictions as an alcohol policy indicator within SAFER availability controls; rules vary by country and locality, with recent liberalizations in Greece and Massachusetts pilot districts.
Drinking straw
Drinking straw: thin tube for sipping beverages, known since Sumerian times (3000 BC); modern paper straw patented by Marvin Stone 1888, bendy straw by Joseph Friedman 1937; polypropylene plastic dominated until environmental bans and alternatives.
Drive-through
Drive-through (drive-thru): a business serving customers in their cars via speaker and window, pioneered by Red's Giant Hamburg (1947) and In-N-Out's two-way intercom (1948); now the dominant QSR channel, averaging 5:24 per visit in 2026, with voice AI and COVID-era medical uses.
Dry county
Dry county: a US county banning alcohol sales. Also moist and wet counties under local option. About 37 fully dry counties remain as of 2026, clustered in the Bible Belt, rooted in the 21st Amendment's delegation of alcohol regulation to states.
Dubonnet
Dubonnet (quinquina Dubonnet): French sweet aromatised quinquina aperitif created in 1846 by Parisian chemist Joseph Dubonnet to mask quinine's bitterness for Foreign Legion soldiers; later famous as Queen Elizabeth II's 2:1 gin and Dubonnet pre-lunch drink.
Duck confit
Duck confit (confit de canard) is a Gascony, South-West France dish of salt-cured duck legs slow-cooked and stored submerged in duck fat, then crisped; a preservation method now central to cassoulet and French bistro cooking.
Duff Beer
Duff Beer is the fictional beer brand of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson's drink of choice, created in 1989 and named by writer Jay Kogen. It sparked trademark litigation, and licensed 5% lager versions are sold in Chile and elsewhere.
Duff Goldman
Duff Goldman (Jeffrey Adam Goldman, born 1974), American pastry chef and Food Network personality; founder of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore (2002), host of Ace of Cakes (2006, 10 seasons), judge of the Baking Championship series, author of three cookbooks.