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Escabeche
Escabeche (escabèche, escabetx, from sikbāj): Iberian-Mediterranean technique of marinating fried or cooked fish, poultry, or vegetables in vinegar, oil, and spices; preserved food eaten cold, spread to Latin America, the Philippines, and Jamaica.
Espagnole sauce
Espagnole (sauce espagnole, brown sauce) is one of Escoffier's five French mother sauces: brown roux, brown stock, mirepoix, and tomato, simmered for hours. Base of demi-glace and brown derivatives such as bordelaise.
Espresso
Espresso (caffè espresso) is a concentrated Italian coffee made by forcing 90.5–96.1°C water at about 9 bar through finely ground coffee in 20–30 seconds, topped with crema; invented from Moriondo's 1884 and Bezzera's steam machines, now standardized by SCA parameters.
Espresso and tonic
Espresso and tonic, also called espresso tonic or coffee tonic, is a cold sparkling drink of espresso poured over iced tonic water. Created in 2007 in Oslo and popularized by Koppi in Helsingborg, Sweden, it is defined by its layered pour, quinine-coffee bitterness, and spread from specialty cafés to chains like Starbucks.
Espresso machine
An espresso machine is a device that forces hot water through finely ground, compacted coffee at high pressure to brew espresso in seconds, ranging from manual lever models to one-touch superautomatics.
Estrella Damm
Estrella Damm is a 5.4% ABV Mediterranean lager brewed in Barcelona by S.A. Damm since 1876 from barley malt, rice, and hops; originally Estrella Dorada (1921), renamed 1991, and tied to FC Barcelona and summer Catalan marketing.
Ethanol as a food preservative
Ethanol as a food preservative: low-concentration or vapor-phase ethyl alcohol used to inhibit molds, yeasts, and bacteria, chiefly in bakery products; GRAS in the US (21 CFR 184.1293, GRN 151) and delivered via ethanol emitter sachets such as Ethicap.
Ethiopian coffee ceremony
The Ethiopian coffee ceremony, called buna maflat in Amharic, is a domestic ritual in which coffee is roasted, brewed in a clay jebena, and served in three rounds.
Ethiopian cuisine
Ethiopian cuisine: the food tradition of Ethiopia (wot stews, injera flatbread, berbere spice). Known for the three-round coffee ceremony (buna), doro wat national dish, fasting-driven vegan dishes, fermented foods, and t'edj honey wine.
Étouffée
Étouffée, often made as crawfish étouffée, is a Louisiana Cajun and Creole dish of shellfish or shrimp smothered in a thick, roux-based sauce and served over white rice.
Ettore Boiardi
Ettore (Hector) Boiardi, the real Chef Boyardee, was a Piacenza-born chef who headed the Plaza Hotel kitchen, opened Cleveland's Il Giardino d'Italia, and founded the Chef Boy-ar-dee canned Italian food company, sold in 1946 for $6 million.
European cuisine
European cuisine: collective term for Europe's hundreds of regional and national foodways, from Mediterranean soffritto to French haute cuisine, shaped by the Columbian exchange, terroir labels, and current protein and flexitarian trends.
European Food Safety Authority
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), EU agency founded 2002 under Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 providing independent risk assessment and scientific advice on food-chain risks, including pesticide peer review and MRLs, distinct from risk managers.
Eva Ekeblad
Eva Ekeblad (Eva De la Gardie), 1724–1786, Swedish countess and the first woman elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1748), known for potato experiments producing flour, starch, powder, and alcohol.
Evan Funke
Evan Funke (born 1978) is a Los Angeles chef and handmade-pasta specialist, trained in Bologna under Alessandra Spisni, chef of Felix, Mother Wolf, and the Beverly Hills restaurant Funke, and author of American Sfoglino.
Evaporated milk
Evaporated milk, also called unsweetened condensed milk, is canned milk with about 60% of water removed, homogenized and sterilized; defined by 21 CFR 131.130 (6.5% milkfat, 23% total solids), patented 1835, first commercially produced 1885.
Everything bagel
Everything bagel: a bagel coated with sesame seeds, poppy seeds, dried onion, garlic, and salt, combining all classic bagel toppings. Emerged in the 1970s; David Gussin claims invention around 1980 in Queens, a disputed origin.
Evian
Evian (evian) is a premium French natural mineral water brand owned by Danone, bottled at the Cachat Spring in Évian-les-Bains after 15 years of Alpine glacial filtration; TDS 345 ppm, pH 7.2, calcium 80 mg/L, sold as spring water in the US.
Expiration date
An expiration date is a date printed on a food package with a phrase like "use by" or "best before," mostly indicating quality rather than safety.
Fabrizio Ferrari
Fabrizio Ferrari (born 1980, Lecco) is an Italian Michelin-starred seafood chef of Al Porticciolo 84, now chef-owner of Fabri Kitchen in Seoul, professor, and Netflix Culinary Class Wars contestant; distinct from the Pavia-born 1965 namesake chef.
Faggot (food)
A faggot is a traditional British meatball of minced meat and offal, breadcrumbs, and herbs, often wrapped in caul fat and served with gravy and peas in Wales and the Midlands.
Fajita
Fajita ("little belt," diminutive of Spanish faja) is a Tex-Mex dish of grilled skirt steak, the diaphragm muscle, originating in 1930s South and West Texas ranch lands and popularized commercially from 1969 by Sonny Falcon, Ninfa's, and Hyatt Austin's sizzling fajitas.
Falafel (فلافل)
Falafel (فلافل), also called ta'ameya in Egypt, is a Middle Eastern fried patty of ground soaked chickpeas or fava beans with herbs and spices, sold as street food across the Arab world, disputed between Egyptian and Israeli national claims, and now a global vegan staple.
Falernum
Falernum: a sweet Barbadian rum liqueur or non-alcoholic syrup flavored with lime, clove, ginger, almond, and nutmeg, typically 11-15% ABV; a tiki cocktail staple in the Corn 'n' Oil and Three Dots and a Dash.
Fallow (restaurant)
Fallow is a modern British restaurant at 52 Haymarket, St James's, London, founded by chefs Jack Croft and Will Murray (ex Dinner by Heston Blumenthal). Known for sustainable, waste-conscious cooking, signature cod's head with sriracha butter, sister restaurants Roe and FOWL, and the 2022 Cateys Newcomer Award.
Falooda
Falooda (फ़ालूदा, فالودہ), from Persian faloodeh, is a layered South Asian cold dessert drink of milk, rose syrup, vermicelli, basil seeds, and ice cream or kulfi, popular in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
FamilyMart (ファミリーマート)
FamilyMart (ファミリーマート) is a Japanese convenience-store franchise chain headquartered in Tokyo, opened in 1973, known for Famichiki fried chicken, with about 25,000 stores in Japan and overseas.
Famine in India
Famine in India (अकाल): recurrent mass food shortages culminating in colonial-era famines from 1770 to the 1943 Bengal famine, with an estimated 50-100 million deaths under British rule, driven by drought plus purchasing-power collapse and policy; famine deaths eliminated in independent India.
Famous Amos
Famous Amos is an American bite-size chocolate chip cookie brand founded in 1975 by talent agent Wally Amos on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. He lost control in 1985; the brand passed through Keebler and Kellogg and is now owned by Ferrero.
Fanny Cradock
Fanny Cradock (Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, 1909-1994), English television cook, writer and restaurant critic; Britain's first celebrity TV chef, BBC Kitchen Magic 1955, Bon Viveur column, ended by the 1976 Gwen Troake broadcast.