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Halva (حلوى)
Halva (حلوى, ḥalwā, "sweet") is a family of dense confections from the Middle East, Balkans, and South Asia, in flour/semolina and tahini-based forms, with records from 7th-century Arabia and pre-Islamic Persia.
Ham
Ham: the cured hind leg of pork, from US city ham and country ham to Parma, Serrano, and Ibérico. Covers dry vs wet curing, nitrite chemistry and limits, PDO rules, curing times, and 2024 market data.
Ham hock
Ham hock, also known as pork knuckle, is the lower portion of a hog's leg. It is cured or smoked and is used to flavor long-cooked dishes.
Hamantash
Hamantash (Yiddish homentash, Hebrew oznei Haman) is the triangular filled cookie eaten on Purim, named for Haman; likely from German Mohntaschen, poppy pocket, first recorded as food in a 1550 Mantua play.
Hamburg steak
Hamburg steak, also called hambāgu (ハンバーグ) in Japan, is a seasoned ground-beef patty served on a plate, not a bun. Named for Hamburg, Germany, it reached New York in the 1870s, became the hamburger sandwich in the 1890s, and evolved in Japan into a soft beef-pork yoshoku staple with demi-glace and wafu sauces.
Hamburger
Hamburger: a ground-beef patty sandwich on a bun, named for Hamburg steak from Hamburg, Germany. Sandwich invented in 1890s America (disputed); White Castle 1921 and McDonald's made it fast food; cook to 160°F.
Hamburger Helper
Hamburger Helper (now Helper) is an American boxed meal kit of pasta, rice, or potatoes plus sauce mix, launched nationally in 1971 by General Mills under Betty Crocker and sold to Eagle Foods in 2022 for about $610 million.
Hamburger University
Hamburger University is McDonald's global manager-training school, founded by Fred Turner in 1961 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Campuses in Tokyo, Shanghai, London and elsewhere; ACE-recommended credits; Hamburgerology credentials; 275,000+ graduates.
Hamdi Ulukaya
Hamdi Ulukaya (born 1972) is a Turkish-American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Chobani, America's No. 1 Greek yogurt brand, and founder of the Tent Partnership for Refugees; he bought a shuttered Kraft plant in New Berlin, New York in 2005 with an SBA loan.
Hamm's Brewery
Hamm's Brewery (Theodore Hamm Brewing Company), founded 1865 in St. Paul, Minnesota, by German immigrant Theodore Hamm; grew to the fifth-largest U.S. brewery by the 1950s behind the Hamm's Bear and "land of sky-blue waters" ads; Saint Paul plant closed 1997, brand now under Molson Coors.
Hanger steak
Hanger steak (onglet, butcher's steak) is a single diaphragm-supporting beef muscle, one per animal, with deep mineral beef flavor; cooked rare to medium-rare, rested, and sliced against the grain.
Hannah Glasse
Hannah Glasse, née Allgood (1708–1770), was an English cookery writer whose 1747 book The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy became a bestseller, coining "Yorkshire pudding".
Hannah Hart
Hannah Hart, also known as Harto, is an American YouTuber, author, and producer who created the comedy cooking series My Drunk Kitchen in 2011, wrote two New York Times bestsellers, and hosted Food Network's I Hart Food.
Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Lecter, aka Hannibal the Cannibal, is Thomas Harris's fictional forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, debuting in Red Dragon (1981), played by Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, and Mads Mikkelsen.
Happy Meal
Happy Meal: McDonald's children's meal with a toy premium, originating as Guatemala's "Ronald's menu" and launched nationally in the U.S. in June 1979; studied for effects on children's food choices and targeted by nutrition regulations.
Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe, also known as Hard Rock Cafe International, is a music-themed restaurant chain founded in London in 1971, known for its rock-and-roll memorabilia and city-name merchandise.
Hard seltzer
Hard seltzer: carbonated alcoholic drink from fermented sugar water, neutral filtered base, fruit flavoring, about 5% ABV and 100 calories. Peaked 2021; White Claw holds ~58% of global market; volumes down 10% 2021-2024.
Hardee's
Hardee's, founded by Wilber Hardee in Greenville, North Carolina on September 3, 1960, is an American fast-food chain of charbroiled burgers and Made From Scratch biscuits, owned by CKE Restaurants (Roark Capital) and sister to Carl's Jr., concentrated in the Midwest and Southeast.
Hardtack
Hardtack, also called ship's biscuit or pilot bread, is a hard flour-water-salt cracker baked dry for multi-year storage, used as naval and army rations from Roman bucellatum through the Civil War; modern Sailor Boy pilot bread ships 98% to Alaska.
Hardy kiwi (Actinidia arguta) extract
Hardy kiwi (Actinidia arguta) extract, or kiwiberry concentrate, is a fruit-derived food ingredient notified to FDA as GRAS (GRN 215, Efficas, 2006–2007); raw fruit shows IgE cross-reactivity, heat processing reduces it.
Haribo
Haribo (HARIBO, from HAns RIegel BOnn) is a German family-owned confectionery company founded in Bonn in 1920 by Hans Riegel, inventor of the gummy bear (Dancing Bear, later Goldbears), now a global gummy market leader.
Harissa (هريسة)
Harissa (هريسة) is the Maghrebi hot red pepper paste made from Capsicum annuum with garlic, coriander, caraway, salt and olive oil; Tunisia's staple condiment, Codex-standardized, and inscribed by UNESCO in 2022.
Harley Morenstein
Harley Morenstein, the Sauce Boss, is a Montreal-born Canadian YouTuber who co-created Epic Meal Time in 2010, known for extreme calorie stunt meals like the TurBaconEpic, plus Epic Meal Empire, Super Snack Time, and Creator Clash boxing.
Harris Teeter
Harris Teeter is a Matthews, North Carolina-based supermarket chain, co-founded in 1960 by W.T. Harris and Willis Teeter and owned by Kroger since 2014, operating 250-plus stores across seven states and Washington, D.C.
Harry J. Sonneborn
Harry J. Sonneborn, former Tastee-Freez finance vice president and McDonald's first president and CEO (1959-1967), devised the Franchise Realty Corporation real estate model, making McDonald's landlord to its franchisees and its main income source rent, not burgers.
Harry's Bar (Venice)
Harry's Bar (Venice): bar and restaurant opened 13 May 1931 by Giuseppe Cipriani, funded by Harry Pickering, birthplace of the Bellini cocktail and carpaccio, declared an Italian national landmark in 2001.
Harvey Wallbanger
Harvey Wallbanger: 1970s American highball cocktail, a Screwdriver (vodka and orange juice) with a Galliano float; attributed to Donato "Duke" Antone and made famous by McKesson Imports' 1969 marketing campaign.
Harveys (restaurant)
Harveys (restaurant) covers several unrelated eateries: Marco Pierre White's two-Michelin-star Harveys in Wandsworth (1987-1999), the Canadian Harvey's burger chain founded 1959, and namesakes in Washington, San Francisco, Falls Church, Kansas City, and Bristol.
Hash (food)
Hash (food): a dish of chopped meat, usually corned beef, with potatoes and onions, fried or baked; from French hacher, to chop. Known for canned US diner corned beef hash, British mash-and-gravy versions, and USDA standards.
Hash browns
Hash browns: shredded or chopped potatoes, sometimes with onion, pressed flat and fried until brown and crisp; an American breakfast staple distinct from home fries, rösti, and potato pancakes.