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Hot pot
Hot pot (火锅, old name 古董羹) is the Chinese communal cooking method of simmering raw ingredients in a shared pot of broth and eating them as they cook. Term first recorded in Tang-era Tongdian; regional styles include Chongqing numbing-spicy and Beijing clear-broth hot pot.
Hot sauce
Hot sauce, a chili-pepper condiment also called chilli sauce or piquante sauce, combines Capsicum peppers with vinegar, salt, and spices; measured in Scoville heat units via HPLC, kept safe below pH 4.6, and anchored by traditions from Aztec Mexico to Tabasco (1868) and sriracha.
Howard Johnson's
Howard Johnson's, the American roadside restaurant and motor lodge chain founded in 1925 in Quincy, Massachusetts by Howard Deering Johnson, famous for orange roofs and 28 ice cream flavors; last restaurant closed in Lake George, New York in 2022, hotels now a Wyndham brand.
HP Sauce
HP Sauce is the defining British brown sauce, a tangy tamarind-and-date condiment created by Nottingham grocer Frederick Gibson Garton, sold for £150, launched nationally in 1903 by the Midland Vinegar Company, and now owned by Kraft Heinz.
Hpnotiq
Hpnotiq: aqua-blue French-made liqueur of tropical fruit juices, vodka, and cognac, 17% ABV, created in 2001 by Raphael Yakoby, popularized through hip-hop, and the base of the Incredible Hulk cocktail.
Hu Deok-juk
Hu Deok-juk (후덕죽, 侯德竹), born 1949, is a Korean Chinese-cuisine chef who led Shilla Hotel's Palsun for 42 years, introduced Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to Korea, and leads Michelin-starred Haobin.
Huarache (food)
Huarache (Mexican food), also called guarache: an elongated oval masa antojito shaped like the huarache sandal, invented in 1935 Mexico City by Carmen Gómez near Canal de la Viga, filled with beans and topped with meat, salsa, and cheese.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born 1965) is a British chef, food writer, and campaigner behind the Channel 4 River Cottage series, River Cottage HQ in Devon, and campaigns including Hugh's Fish Fight, War on Waste, and the 2026 book High Fibre Heroes.
Hummus
Hummus (حُمُّص, Arabic for chickpeas) is a Middle Eastern dip of mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon, garlic, and olive oil; its modern combined recipe is documented only centuries after its ingredients, and it is now a global packaged food.
Hunan cuisine
Hunan cuisine (湘菜, Xiang cuisine) is one of China's Eight Great Cuisines, drawn from the Xiang River, Dongting Lake, and Western Hunan styles; sour-spicy, oil-heavy rice food with duojiao yutou and stir-fried yellow beef as representative dishes.
Hunar Cafe and Billiards
Hunar Cafe and Billiards (Kurdish: چایخانەو بلیاردی هونەر) is a cafe and billiards venue on Goran Street in central Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, pairing a teahouse with billiards tables.
Hungarian cuisine
Hungarian cuisine: Central European cooking tradition of the Carpathian Basin, defined by paprika, onion-fat stewing bases, goulash and halászlé, shaped by German, Italian, Ottoman, and Habsburg influences.
Hungryhouse
Hungryhouse (hungryhouse.co.uk) was a UK online takeaway ordering marketplace founded in 2006, owned by Delivery Hero from 2011 and sold to Just Eat for £239.5 million in 2018 after a CMA phase 2 clearance.
Hunter valley
Hunter valley, NSW: valley of the Hunter River north of Sydney, home of the Wonnarua people, Australia's oldest commercial wine region (Semillon, Shiraz), and a major coal mining and energy economy.
Hunts Point Food Distribution Center
The Hunts Point Food Distribution Center is a 329-acre wholesale food campus in the South Bronx, New York City, handling about 4.5 billion pounds of food annually.
Hurricane (cocktail)
Hurricane: a rum-heavy New Orleans cocktail created at Pat O'Brien's in the 1940s from wartime rum surplus; rum, passion fruit syrup (fassionola), and lemon juice, served in a hurricane-lamp-shaped glass.
Huy Fong Foods
Huy Fong Foods, founded 1980 by Vietnamese refugee David Tran in Los Angeles, makes rooster-logo Sriracha, Chili Garlic, and Sambal Oelek sauces; known for no advertising, the Underwood Ranches lawsuit, and recurring shortages.
Hy-Vee
Hy-Vee: employee-owned Midwestern supermarket chain founded 1930 in Beaconsfield, Iowa by Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg; over 550 locations in nine states, $13 billion sales, West Des Moines headquarters.
Hyderabadi biryani
Hyderabadi biryani, from Hyderabad, India, is a dum-cooked kacchi-style dish of raw marinated meat and basmati rice from Nizam-era kitchens, distinct from Lucknowi pakki and Kolkata potato biryanis.
Hydrolyzed poultry protein
Hydrolyzed poultry protein, a peptide-rich ingredient from enzymatically hydrolyzed poultry protein or by-products, used as protein source and flavoring; GRAS via GRN 1132 (Norilia AS), FDA no questions Jan 29, 2024.
Hydrolyzed sardine protein
Hydrolyzed sardine protein, also called sardine peptide (Valtyron), is an enzyme-hydrolyzed sardine muscle protein ingredient; GRAS via FDA GRN 360 (Senmi Ekisu, 2011), EFSA-safe to 0.6 g/serving.
Hydrox
Hydrox is the original creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie, launched in 1908 by Sunshine Biscuits, four years before Oreo. Discontinued by Keebler in 1999, it was revived by Leaf Brands in 2015 with a kosher, vegan-certified formula.
Hypermarket
Hypermarket: very large self-service store combining supermarket food retail with general merchandise, defined as over one third food sales and 2,500 m² or more. Invented by Carrefour at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France, 15 June 1963; now losing share to other grocery channels.
Ian Schrager
Ian Schrager is the American hotelier and entrepreneur who co-founded Studio 54 with Steve Rubell in 1977 and invented the boutique hotel with Morgans in 1984, later creating EDITION with Marriott and the PUBLIC brand.
Ice cream
Ice cream: frozen, aerated dessert of dairy fat, sugar and ice, legally defined in the US at 10% milkfat; ancient origins, industrialized after 1851 (Fussell) and 1926 continuous freezer.
Ice cream cone
Ice cream cone: edible wafer or waffle container for ice cream, popularized at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Types include waffle, sugar, and cake cones; earlier patents by Valvona (1902) and Marchiony (1903).
Ice cream float
Ice cream float (also ice cream soda, spider): a scoop of ice cream, usually vanilla, in a fizzy soft drink such as root beer or cola. Credited to Robert M. Green, Philadelphia, 1874; foam comes from soda carbon dioxide stabilized by dairy proteins and fat.
Ice cream sandwich
An ice cream sandwich is a frozen dessert of ice cream between two baked goods, usually thin chocolate wafers, born as late 19th century New York street food.
Ice pack
Ice pack: reusable water-gel cold packs, instant chemical packs, and PCM packs used to cool injuries, food, and cold chain shipments. Distinguished by propylene glycol gel fill, endothermic ammonium nitrate instant packs, and FDA food regulation of packaged ice.
Ice pop
Ice pop: frozen flavored water or juice on a stick, also called ice lolly, paleta, or ice block; Popsicle is a brand. Accidentally invented by Frank Epperson in 1905, patented 1924.