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Gingerbread
Gingerbread: spiced baked goods from crisp cookies to cakes and decorated Christmas houses. From Old French gingembrat (preserved ginger); earliest English recipes had no ginger, using honey, breadcrumbs, saffron, and pepper.
Gingerbread man
Gingerbread man: a human-shaped spiced Christmas cookie, also called Lebkuchenmann in Germany. Word from Old French gingembrat (preserved ginger); shape attributed to Elizabeth I; runaway tale published 1875 in St. Nicholas Magazine.
Gino D'Acampo
Gino D'Acampo (born 1976, Torre del Greco, Naples) is an Italian chef and TV presenter in Britain, winner of I'm a Celebrity 2009, This Morning regular, restaurateur, and subject of denied 2025 misconduct allegations.
Giovanni Ferrero
Giovanni Ferrero (born 1964), Italian billionaire businessman and novelist, President of Ferrero International S.A., maker of Nutella, Kinder, and Tic Tac; co-CEO from 1997, Executive Chairman from 2017, led acquisitions including Nestlé US confectionery and WK Kellogg.
Girl Scout Cookies
Girl Scout Cookies are seasonal cookies sold annually by Girl Scouts in the United States through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, begun in 1917, commercially baked since 1936 by ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers, with about 200 million boxes sold yearly.
Givaudan
Givaudan, Swiss flavour and fragrance maker founded 1895 in Zürich by Léon and Xavier Givaudan, headquartered in Vernier; divisions Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty; 2025 sales CHF 7,472 million; industry leader versus IFF, Symrise, DSM-Firmenich.
Gleaning
Gleaning is the collection of surplus food, traditionally crops left after harvest, for redistribution to people in need; also called food recovery or rescue. Ancient roots in Leviticus and Ruth, modern US liability law (Emerson Act 1996, FDIA 2023), and documented programs from county projects to Farm to Family.
Global Hunger Index
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a peer-reviewed annual composite index, originally by IFPRI and now published by Welthungerhilfe, IFHV, and Helvetas, scoring countries 0-100 on undernourishment, child stunting, wasting, and mortality; the 2026 global score is 18.1 (moderate).
Glucosyl hesperidin
Glucosyl hesperidin (GH, monoglucosyl hesperidin, CitraPeak) is an enzymatically glucosylated, water-soluble form of the citrus flavonoid hesperidin; GRAS (GRN 901, 2020) in the US and EU novel food authorized 2025.
Gnocchi
Gnocchi are Italian dumplings, usually potato and flour, boiled and served as a first course; classified in pasta's dumpling family, with regional variants like gnudi and gnocchi alla romana.
Goat cheese
Goat cheese, also called chèvre, is cheese made from goat milk, with about 400 varieties worldwide. Lower αs1-casein and small fat globules give it a soft, spreadable, tangy character and a goaty flavor from 4-methyloctanoic and 4-ethyloctanoic acids.
Gobstopper
Gobstopper, also called jawbreaker in the US, is a hard spherical candy of many layered sugar coats meant to be sucked slowly. The Everlasting Gobstopper, from Roald Dahl's 1964 book, became a real Wonka candy in 1976, now made by Ferrara.
Gochujang (고추장)
Gochujang (고추장), Korean fermented chili paste of soybean, glutinous rice, chili powder, and malt; sweet-hot taste, about 2,402 mg sodium per 100 g, distinct from doenjang and ssamjang.
Godfather's Pizza
Godfather's Pizza, American pizza franchise founded 1973 in Omaha, Nebraska by Willy Theisen and Greg Johnson; 632 locations by 1982, second-largest U.S. pizza chain then; distinct from the 1972 Canadian chain.
Godfrey Phillips India
Godfrey Phillips India Limited (GPI, NSE: GODFRYPHLP) is the second-largest Indian tobacco and cigarette company, a Modi Enterprises flagship founded in 1936, maker of Four Square and Red & White and distributor of Marlboro with Philip Morris.
Godiva Chocolatier
Godiva Chocolatier: Belgian premium chocolate brand (Belgium 1926), founded by Pierre Draps in Brussels, named after Lady Godiva; royal warrant 1968; owned by Turkey's Yıldız Holding via pladis, not Campbell Soup or Hershey.
Goetta
Goetta (get-uh), from German Grützwurst, is a Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky breakfast sausage of ground pork, beef, steel-cut oats, onion, and spices, sliced and fried; unlike scrapple it uses oats, not cornmeal.
Going Dutch
Going Dutch, or to go Dutch, is an idiom for each person paying their own share of a meal or outing; from the 19th-century Americanism Dutch treat, likely via the Pennsylvania Dutch, not a Dutch custom.
Gok Wan
Gok Wan (Kowkhyn Wan, born 1974, Leicester) is a British fashion stylist, TV presenter, author, and DJ, famous for Channel 4's How to Look Good Naked and Gok's Fashion Fix, later a TV cook with Gok Cooks Chinese, MBE 2020.
Golden Corral
Golden Corral: American buffet-and-grill restaurant chain founded 1971, first opened 1973 in Fayetteville, NC; Raleigh, NC headquartered franchisor, over 150 buffet items, Camp Corral military charity, CEO Lance Trenary since 2015.
Goldfish (cracker)
Goldfish crackers: fish-shaped baked cheese snack created as Goldfischli by Swiss baker Oscar J. Kambly in 1958, introduced to the US by Pepperidge Farm in 1962, now a Campbell brand icon.
Gooey butter cake
Gooey butter cake, also called ooey gooey butter cake, is a St. Louis, Missouri specialty: a flat, dense cake with a yeasted or cake-mix base and a buttery, underbaked, pudding-like topping, born by legend from a 1930s German baker's mistake.
Gordon Behind Bars
Gordon Behind Bars, also known as Ramsay Behind Bars, is a 2012 British docu-reality series. It follows Gordon Ramsay teaching inmates at HMP Brixton to run a bakery.
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay (born 1966, Johnstone, Scotland) is a British chef and TV personality whose Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea holds three Michelin stars; he runs a 103-restaurant global group and hosts Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares.
Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip
Gordon, Gino, and Fred: Road Trip is an ITV travel-food series with Gordon Ramsay, Gino D'Acampo and Fred Sirieix touring countries by camper van; four series aired 2018–2023 before D'Acampo's departure ended it.
Gordon's Gin
Gordon's Gin, London dry gin brand founded by Alexander Gordon in 1769 in Southwark, now Diageo-owned. Distinctive green UK bottle, yellow export label, 37.5% ABV UK bottling, triple distilled, world's best-selling international gin.
Gorgonzola
Gorgonzola PDO: Italian blue-veined cheese from pasteurized cow's milk in Lombardy and Piedmont; two styles, dolce and piccante; PDO-protected since 1955, EU-registered 1996.
Gose
Gose is a top-fermented German sour wheat beer with coriander and salt, originating in Goslar on the Gose River and centered in Leipzig from 1738; production ceased in 1966 and was revived from the 1980s, with ABV 4.2–4.8% and 5–12 IBU.
Got Milk?
Got Milk? is the 1993 American milk advertising campaign by Goodby Silverstein & Partners for the California Milk Processor Board, famous for the Aaron Burr commercial, Michael Bay direction, and celebrity milk mustache ads; retired 2014 for Milk Life, revived 2020.
Gouda cheese
Gouda: Dutch washed-curd semihard cow's-milk cheese named for the Gouda cheese market (market rights 1395), not the making town. 40–50% fat in dry matter, ripened 4 weeks to over a year; Gouda Holland PGI and Noord-Hollandse Gouda PDO are the protected names.