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Goulash
Goulash (Hungarian gulyás, gulyásleves; Czech guláš; German Gulasch): paprika-seasoned beef dish from Magyar herdsmen's cooking, a soup in Hungary, a thick stew abroad, distinct from pörkölt, paprikás, and American pasta goulash.
Gourmet
Gourmet: a connoisseur of fine food and drink, from Old French groumet, a wine-taster's valet. English noun from 1820; distinguished from gourmand (quantity) and foodie (enthusiasm without knowledge).
Goya Foods
Goya Foods, Inc., American food company founded 1936 by Prudencio and Carolina Unanue in Lower Manhattan; largest Hispanic-owned food company in the US, HQ Secaucus, New Jersey, 2,500+ Latin cuisine products, family-run, 90th anniversary 2026.
Grace Dent
Grace Dent (born 1973, Carlisle) is a British journalist and broadcaster, Guardian restaurant critic since 2017, former Evening Standard Grace & Flavour columnist, memoirist of Hungry, host of the Comfort Eating podcast, and co-host of BBC MasterChef with Anna Haugh.
Graham cracker
Graham cracker: thin, crisp American cookie made from graham flour, invented 1829 by Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham as a bland anti-vice health food; now sweetened with honey and cinnamon and used in s'mores and pie crusts.
Graham Elliot
Graham Elliot (Graham Elliot Bowles), American chef and TV personality, MasterChef and Top Chef judge, youngest US four-star chef at 27, two-Michelin-star Chicago restaurant, Far Out Hospitality partner in Fort Worth, Texas.
Graham Kerr
Graham Kerr (born 1934), the Galloping Gourmet, is a London-born TV chef whose 1969–1971 syndicated show reached 200 million weekly viewers; after his wife's 1987 stroke he created the Minimax low-fat cooking style.
Grana Padano
Grana Padano, Italian PDO hard cooked cheese from raw partly skimmed cow's milk in the Po valley; older sibling of Parmigiano Reggiano, min 9 months aging, lysozyme permitted, silage allowed.
Grand Marnier
Grand Marnier: French orange liqueur created 1880 by Louis-Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle, blending cognac (51% in Cordon Rouge) with bitter bigarade orange at 40% ABV; owned by Campari since 2016.
Granita
Granita, a semi-frozen Sicilian dessert of water, sugar, and fruit, coffee, or almond flavoring, agitated during freezing into fine ice crystals; born from Arab sherbet and Etna snow, eaten with brioche con il tuppo.
Grant Achatz
Grant Achatz (born 1974) is an American modernist chef, CIA graduate, and co-founder of Chicago's three-Michelin-star Alinea, Next, and The Aviary; stage IV tongue cancer survivor, James Beard Outstanding Chef 2008.
Grape-Nuts
Grape-Nuts is a Post Consumer Brands breakfast cereal introduced in 1897 by C.W. Post, made from whole-grain wheat and barley with no grapes or nuts; known for dense crunchy nuggets, high fiber, and New England grape-nut ice cream.
Grappa
Grappa is the Italian pomace brandy, a protected geographical indication distilled from fermented grape marc grown and processed only in Italy. Bottled at 37.5% vol minimum, aged styles include invecchiata and riserva.
Grass jelly
Grass jelly (仙草, cincau, เฉาก๊วย, sương sáo) is a black jelly dessert from South China made by boiling Platostoma palustre with starch and alkali; eaten across Asia as cubes, drinks, and toppings.
Gratin
Gratin: a French oven-baked dish defined by its browned crust of cheese or breadcrumbs, from gratter (to scrape). Includes gratin dauphinois, technique, and gratin versus casserole distinctions.
Gratuity
A gratuity (tip) is a voluntary customer payment to a service worker, legally distinct from a service charge. Covers history, US tip credit ($2.13 tipped minimum), weak evidence tips reward service, and the 2025-2028 No Tax on Tips deduction.
Gravy
Gravy: a sauce made from meat or poultry drippings, a liquid such as milk or broth, and a thickener like roux; from Old French grave; includes pan gravy, British brown gravy, Southern white gravy, and Italian-American Sunday gravy.
Greasy spoon
Greasy spoon: a small, cheap café or diner serving fried food; informal term first recorded 1906, with an 1850 German-linked instance. British "caff" culture, decline, and new-wave revival.
Great American Beer Festival
Great American Beer Festival (GABF), annual Denver craft beer festival and blind-judged competition run by the Brewers Association since 1982; founded in Boulder by Charlie Papazian, moved outdoors to Levitt Pavilion in 2026.
Great Bengal famine of 1770
Great Bengal famine of 1770, Chhiattor-er Monnontor (Famine of '76), a catastrophic famine in Company-ruled Bengal killing about 10 million, one third of the population, while the East India Company kept collecting revenue.
Great British Beer Festival
The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), CAMRA's flagship beer festival since 1977, styled the biggest pub in the world; home of the Champion Beer of Britain; cancelled for 2024 (venue) and 2026 (costs).
Great British Menu
Great British Menu: BBC Two cookery competition produced by Optomen since 2006, in which professional chefs compete through regional heats to cook at a themed banquet; 21 series, judges Tom Kerridge, Lorna McNee, Phil Wang.
Great Chinese Famine
Great Chinese Famine (三年大饥荒), 1959–1961 famine during the Great Leap Forward; largest in human history with an estimated 16.5–45 million excess deaths, driven mainly by procurement and Leap policies rather than weather.
Great Famine of 1315–1317
The Great Famine of 1315–1317, also called the European Great Famine, was the worst subsistence crisis in European history, hitting northern Europe from Ireland to Poland after torrential rains of 1314–1316 ruined harvests and raised English wheat prices eightfold, killing roughly 10–20 percent of England's population.
Great Famine of 1876–1878
The Great Famine of 1876–1878, also called the Madras famine, was a famine in British India that killed more than five million people after the monsoon failed.
Greek cuisine
Greek cuisine: traditional food of Greece based on olive oil, grains, legumes, seafood, and wine, part of the Mediterranean diet, shaped by ancient, Byzantine, Ottoman, and 1920s Asia Minor refugee influences.
Greek salad
Greek salad, called horiatiki ("village salad") in Greece, is a salad of tomato, cucumber, onion, and feta dressed with olive oil and oregano, containing no lettuce.
Green bean casserole
Green bean casserole: American Thanksgiving side dish, originally "Green Bean Bake," created 1955 by Dorcas Reilly at Campbell's Camden test kitchen; six ingredients including Cream of Mushroom soup and French-fried onions; served in about 20 million US households each Thanksgiving.
Green coffee extract
Green coffee extract, from unroasted Coffea beans, is a weight-loss supplement rich in chlorogenic acids and caffeine; clinical evidence shows only small, poorly supported effects and a retracted key trial.
Green curry (แกงเขียวหวาน)
Green curry (แกงเขียวหวาน, kaeng khiao wan, "sweet-green curry") is a central Thai coconut-milk curry built on a paste of fresh green bird's-eye chilies, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, and shrimp paste; spicier than red curry, documented from early twentieth-century Bangkok court recipes.