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Fritter
Fritter: a food coated in batter and fried, from Old French friture. Includes fruit, vegetable, and meat fritters, pakora, tempura, and doughnut-family fried doughs; traced to Roman scriblita.
Froot Loops
Froot Loops (Fruit Loops is a common misspelling) is Kellogg's 1963 sweetened multigrain ring cereal with Toucan Sam mascot, six colors, one shared flavor, now owned by Ferrero via WK Kellogg and switching to natural colors by end of 2026.
Frosted Flakes
Frosted Flakes, also known as Frosties, is a sweetened corn flake breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's, introduced in 1952 and marketed with the mascot Tony the Tiger.
Frozen custard
Frozen custard is an egg-yolk-enriched frozen dairy dessert, legally requiring at least 1.4% egg yolk solids in the US. Also called fresh frozen custard; invented commercially by the Kohr brothers at Coney Island in 1919 and popularized in Milwaukee, the self-styled custard capital.
Frozen Dead Guy Days
Frozen Dead Guy Days is a winter festival in Estes Park, Colorado, honoring Bredo Morstøl, a Norwegian man kept cryogenically frozen since his 1989 death.
Frozen food
Frozen food is food preserved at about −18 °C (0 °F), safe indefinitely though quality declines. Key facts: Clarence Birdseye's 1924 quick-freezing, 1930 Springfield retail debut, microbes dormant not killed, nutrition comparable to fresh.
Frozen yogurt
Frozen yogurt (fro-yo, froyo) is a frozen dairy dessert made from cultured milk with Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus, invented in the 1970s as H.P. Hood's Frogurt; lower in fat than ice cream but often as high in sugar.
Fruit
Fruit: botanically the ripened ovary of a flowering plant containing seeds; culinarily sweet or tart plant foods. Includes fruit types, the tomato vegetable question, Nix v. Hedden, and domestication.
Fruit preserves
Fruit preserves are shelf-stable spreads made from fruit, sugar, acid, and pectin, concentrated to at least 65 percent soluble solids under US standards; jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade, conserve, and fruit butter differ by fruit form and additions.
Fruitcake
Fruitcake, also called Christmas cake or plum cake, is a dense cake of dried and candied fruit, nuts, and spices, often preserved with brandy or rum. Known for Roman origins, extreme shelf stability, and holiday and wedding traditions.
Fry sauce
Fry sauce is a Utah-Idaho condiment of ketchup and mayonnaise (1:2 or 1:1) for dipping fries. Also called fancy sauce; related to salsa golf, mayoketchup, Marie Rose sauce. Origin credited to Don Carlos Edwards and Arctic Circle, disputed by Provo's Stan's Drive-In.
Frybread
Frybread (fry bread) is a Native American flatbread of flour, water, salt, and baking powder fried in lard or oil, traced to 1864 government rations at Bosque Redondo during the Navajo Long Walk; about 700 calories per plate-size piece.
Frying pan
Frying pan (skillet): a flat, long-handled metal pan for frying, searing, and browning. Made in nonstick, stainless steel, cast iron, carbon steel, and copper; ancient origins; PTFE degrades above 260 °C.
Fuck, That's Delicious
Fuck, That's Delicious, also called That's Delicious, is an American food-travel series in which Queens rapper and former chef Action Bronson eats his way around the world with friends.
Fuddruckers
Fuddruckers is an American fast-casual burger chain founded by Phil Romano in San Antonio, Texas, known for fresh never-frozen beef, on-site baked buns, and a Build Your Own produce bar; now owned by Nicholas Perkins' Black Titan Franchise Systems since 2021.
Fudge
Fudge: a soft, dense crystalline candy of sugar, butter, and milk or cream, usually chocolate-flavored, boiled to the soft-ball stage (234–238°F) and beaten as it cools; originated in 1880s America, tied to Vassar College and Mackinac Island, distinct from chocolate and Scottish tablet.
Fufu
Fufu (Twi fufuu; also foufou, foutou) is a West and Central African staple dough of boiled, pounded cassava, yam, cocoyam, or plantain, eaten by hand with soups; fermented cassava fufu reduces cyanide by about 91%.
Fujian cuisine
Fujian cuisine (闽菜, Min cuisine), one of China's eight major cuisines, comes from coastal Fujian with Fuzhou, Minnan, and Minxi Hakka branches; it is known for seafood, red-yeast lees seasoning, sweet-sour light flavors, and extensive soup-making including Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
Ful medames (فول مدمس)
Ful medames (فول مدمس), Egyptian slow-stewed fava beans with oil, lemon, and cumin; Egypt's national breakfast dish, documented in medieval Cairo, eaten across the Levant, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa.
Full breakfast
Full breakfast (fry-up, full English breakfast): a large cooked British and Irish morning meal of bacon, sausages, eggs, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and toast, with Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Ulster variants, about 800–1,200 kcal, served all day in cafes.
Funeral potatoes
Funeral potatoes, also called Mormon funeral potatoes or hash brown casserole, is a Utah cheesy potato casserole named for post-funeral luncheons served by the Latter-day Saint Relief Society.
Furikake (ふりかけ)
Furikake (ふりかけ) is a dry Japanese seasoning of sesame seeds, seaweed, and dried fish or egg, sprinkled over cooked white rice or mixed into it; the first commercial product, Gohan no Tomo, appeared around 1913.
Furious Pete
Furious Pete, Peter (Piotr) Czerwinski, Canadian competitive eater, bodybuilder, and YouTuber (~5M subscribers); Guinness record holder (4 hamburgers/minute), 72-oz steak in 6:48, ~90 contests won since 2007.
Furmint
Furmint is a Hungarian white wine grape, the primary variety of sweet Tokaji Aszú and, since the early 2000s, of dry Tokaj whites. Also called Šipon in Slovenia, where it is the world's second biggest grower.
Fusion cuisine
Fusion cuisine, also called fusion food, combines ingredients, techniques, and flavors from multiple culinary traditions. Term coined in 1980s Florida; includes Tex-Mex, chicken tikka masala, and Nikkei cuisine; now often renamed 'New American' or diaspora cuisine.
Gabriele Corcos
Gabriele Corcos, Italian celebrity cook and TV personality from Fiesole near Florence, creator and host of Cooking Channel's Extra Virgin with wife Debi Mazar, James Beard winner, NYT bestselling author, and owner of The Tuscan Gun in Brooklyn.
Gado-gado
Gado-gado (Gado2), Indonesian mixed vegetable salad with peanut sauce (bumbu kacang), tofu, tempeh, egg, and lontong; documented from 1864 Batavia, related to pecel, karedok, lotek, ketoprak.
Gail Simmons
Gail Simmons, born 1976 in Toronto, is a Canadian food writer and the permanent judge of Bravo's Top Chef since 2006; former Food & Wine Special Projects Director, author of Talking With My Mouth Full and Bringing It Home, and host of Top Chef spin-offs.
Gajar ka halwa (गाजर का हलवा)
Gajar ka halwa (गाजर का हलवा), also gajrela or gajorer halwa, is a North Indian winter dessert of grated red Delhi carrots slow-cooked in milk, ghee, and sugar with khoya and cardamom, derived from Arabic halwa.
Galbi (갈비)
Galbi (갈비) means Korean-style beef or pork ribs and the dishes made from them: marinated grilled galbi, galbijjim, and galbitang. Distinguished from LA galbi, a cross-cut style from Los Angeles Korean immigrants using the Jewish flanken cut, re-imported to Korea in the late 1980s.