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Dumpling
Dumpling: small dough parcel, filled or plain, boiled, steamed, fried, or baked; also called jiaozi, gyoza, pierogi, mandu, ravioli. Chinese jiaozi date back over 1,800 years; soup dumpling market exceeds $6.8 billion.
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts, known simply as Dunkin' since 2019, is an American coffee and baked goods chain founded in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts, by William Rosenberg.
Duqqa (دقة)
Duqqa (دقة), also dukkah or du'ah, is an Egyptian coarse blend of toasted nuts, sesame, coriander, cumin, salt, and pepper, eaten with bread dipped in olive oil; distinct from za'atar and from the garlic-vinegar koshari sauce of the same name.
Dutch baby pancake
Dutch baby pancake, also called German pancake, Bismarck, or Dutch puff: a large sweet oven-baked American pancake with steam-puffed edges, popularized at Manca's Cafe in Seattle by Victor Manca; name from 'Deutsch', not the Netherlands.
Dutch Bros. Coffee
Dutch Bros. Coffee (Dutch Bros Inc., NYSE: BROS) is an American drive-thru beverage chain founded in 1992 in Grants Pass, Oregon, by Dane and Travis Boersma, with 1,225 shops in 25 states as of June 30, 2026.
Dutch cuisine
Dutch cuisine: the Netherlands' food tradition of simple, hearty everyday meals (stamppot, herring, cheese), shaped by colonial trade and immigration, with 119 Michelin-starred restaurants in 2026.
Dutch oven
Dutch oven: heavy thick-walled lidded cooking pot, usually cast iron (enameled or bare), also called French oven or cocotte; stovetop-to-oven vessel for braising, stews, frying, and steam-trapped bread baking, named for Dutch sand-mold casting.
Dylan Lauren
Dylan Lauren (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur, daughter of Ralph Lauren, and founder and CEO of Dylan's Candy Bar, the candy retail chain opened in New York City in October 2001 with Jeff Rubin.
E & J Gallo Winery
E. & J. Gallo Winery: family-owned Modesto, California wine and spirits company founded 1933 by Ernest and Julio Gallo; largest US wine company with 24% volume share, 100+ brands, and recent Four Roses acquisition.
E number
E number: the EU code (E plus a number, sometimes a subdivision) identifying a food additive authorised after safety assessment by SCF or EFSA. Shares numbers with Codex's INS but carries EU approval meaning; over 300 authorised additives; E-number labelling is not mandatory.
Earl Grey tea
Earl Grey tea, also called bergamot tea, is black tea scented with oil from the bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia) grown in Calabria, Italy. Named for Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Prime Minister 1830–1834; Twinings sold it from 1831; variants include Lady Grey and French Earl Grey.
Early modern European cuisine
Early modern European cuisine: European cooking and food culture from the late fifteenth to late eighteenth century, shaped by printed cookbooks (Scappi, La Varenne's 1651 Le Cuisinier François), rising national cuisines, Columbian Exchange foods, humoral dietetics, and food as social identity.
Eat Real Festival
Eat Real Festival: free-admission street food and craft food festival at Jack London Square, Oakland, founded 2009 by Anya Fernald; $5-to-$8 food cap, vendor rules on local sourcing, fundraiser for the Food Craft Institute.
Eataly
Eataly is an Italian marketplace chain founded by Oscar Farinetti, first opened in Turin in 2007, combining retail, restaurants, and food education under the Eat, Shop, Learn model; nearly 70 locations in 16 countries, majority-owned by Investindustrial.
Eating live animals
Eating live animals is consuming animals still alive, chiefly live seafood such as Korean san-nakji (산낙지) octopus or Japanese ikizukuri fish; notable for choking and Vibrio risks, partial bans, and animal-welfare debates.
Eating utensil etiquette
Eating utensil etiquette covers rules for using knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks, and hands at the table. Key facts: pre-16th-century Europe lacked eating utensils; the fork spread via Catherine de' Medici; à la russe service drove Victorian cutlery complexity; norms vary sharply by region.
Eau de vie
Eau de vie (French for 'water of life', from aqua vitae) is a clear, unaged fruit brandy distilled from fermented fruit other than grapes, in styles such as kirsch, poire Williams and mirabelle; in broader French usage the term covers any distilled spirit, including Cognac and Armagnac.
Ed Debevic's
Ed Debevic's is a retro 1950s-themed diner chain founded in Chicago in 1984 by Rich Melman of Lettuce Entertain You, known for deliberately rude, singing, dancing waitstaff; closed 2015, revived 2021 in Streeterville.
Edam cheese
Edam cheese: Dutch semi-hard sweet-curd cow's-milk cheese from Edam, North Holland; part-skim (unlike whole-milk Gouda), spherical red-wax export form, about 40% milk fat in solids, PGI as Edam Holland.
Eddie Huang (黄颐铭)
Eddie Huang (黃頤銘), born 1982 in Washington, D.C., is a Taiwanese-American chef, lawyer, and author who founded Baohaus, wrote the memoir Fresh Off the Boat, and later directed Boogie.
Eddie Jackson (chef)
Eddie Jackson (born 1980) is an American celebrity chef and former NFL cornerback who won Food Network Star season 11 in 2015; he hosts Christmas Cookie Challenge and Outchef'd and founded the Chefs United Foundation.
Edeka
Edeka, also known as the Edeka Group, is a German grocery retail cooperative of independent merchants headquartered in Hamburg; founded in 1898, it had €77.3 billion revenue in 2025.
Edgar Bronfman Sr.
Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929-2013), Montreal-born Canadian-American executive, led Seagram and was World Jewish Congress president 1971-2007, securing $1.25 billion in Swiss bank Holocaust restitution.
Edible bird's nest
Edible bird's nest (yànwō 燕窩, cubilose) is a delicacy made from solidified swiftlet saliva, mainly Aerodramus fuciphagus, from Southeast Asia. Over 50% protein, 8–12% sialic acid; used in TCM since the Tang dynasty; Indonesia produces 85%; priced USD 2,000–10,000/kg.
Edward Lee (chef)
Edward Lee (Lee Kyun), Korean-American chef from Brooklyn, chef-owner of 610 Magnolia in Louisville; author of Smoke & Pickles; 2019 James Beard writing winner; Culinary Class Wars runner-up.
Eel pie
Eel pie, a traditional London dish of pastry filled with eel from the Thames, is the original filling of the city's eel, pie and mash shops, first recorded as an 1844 Southwark eel pie house and now served in around 30 surviving shops.
Egg coffee
Egg coffee (cà phê trứng), also called ca phe trung, is a Hanoi drink invented in 1946 by bartender Nguyễn Văn Giang: egg yolk whipped with condensed milk floated on strong phin robusta coffee, with raw-egg safety caveats.
Egg cream
Egg cream: a New York City soda-fountain drink of milk, seltzer, and chocolate syrup with a foamy head, containing no egg and no cream; tied to Jewish immigrant culture and Fox's U-Bet syrup.
Egg drop soup (蛋花汤)
Egg drop soup (蛋花汤, Dànhuā tāng, egg flower soup) is a Chinese soup of beaten egg streamed into hot, often starch-thickened broth, setting into floating ribbons; a home staple and American Chinese menu starter with tomato and seaweed variants.
Egg foo young
Egg foo young (芙蓉蛋) is a Cantonese omelette dish turned Chinese-American takeout staple: egg patties with bean sprouts, onion, and pork, shrimp, or chicken, served with soy-based brown gravy; related to Indonesian fu yung hai and Dutch foe yong hai.