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Ice wine
Ice wine (Eiswein, vin de glace): dessert wine from grapes frozen on the vine and pressed frozen, per OIV rules at −7°C or colder. Made in Canada's Niagara and Okanagan, Finger Lakes, and Mosel; first recorded in Franconia in 1794, first commercial Canadian Icewine 1983.
Icebox
Icebox: insulated wooden cabinet, tin or zinc lined, cooled by a delivered block of ice in its top compartment; the non-mechanical predecessor of the electric refrigerator, replaced in US homes mainly after the 1927 GE Monitor-top.
Iced coffee
Iced coffee is coffee brewed hot and served cold over ice, distinct from cold brew. Origins include the 1840s Algerian mazagran and an 1887 US recipe; today one in three out-of-home coffees worldwide is ordered cold.
Iced tea
Iced tea, tea served cold over ice, is an American staple popularized by Richard Blechynden at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair; about four-fifths of US tea consumption is iced, led by ready-to-drink brands like Pure Leaf and AriZona.
Iceland (supermarket)
Iceland Foods Ltd is a British frozen-food supermarket chain founded in 1970 by Malcolm Walker in Oswestry, Shropshire, headquartered in Deeside, Wales. Distinguished by its frozen focus, The Food Warehouse format, 2.2% UK grocery share, family ownership, and its 2026 dropped trademark dispute with the country Iceland.
Icelandic cuisine
Icelandic cuisine (íslensk matarhefð), the Cuisine of Iceland: a Nordic cuisine of lamb, fish, skyr, and rye shaped by whey-pickling, hákarl, svið, hangikjöt, geothermal greenhouses, and Dill's Michelin-starred New Nordic scene.
Ichi-go ichi-e (一期一会)
Ichi-go ichi-e (一期一会), "one lifetime, one meeting," is a Japanese tea-ceremony phrase for treating each gathering as unrepeatable. Thought from Rikyū via Yamanoue Sōji ki (1588); the four-character phrase was coined by Ii Naosuke in Chanoyu ichie shū.
Ichijū-sansai (一汁三菜)
Ichijū-sansai (一汁三菜), "one soup, three sides," is the basic Japanese meal structure: rice, one soup, and three dishes (one main, two sides), excluding rice and pickles from the count. Rooted in Muromachi honzen cuisine, it underpins washoku and the teishoku set meal.
Icing (food)
Icing (also called frosting, especially in the US) is a sugar-based coating for cakes and cookies. Basic icing is confectioners' sugar plus liquid; frosting is thicker and whipped, icing thinner and glossier; royal icing dries hard for decorating.
Icing (game)
Icing (game): a 2010 American drinking game, also called Bros Icing Bros, in which a hidden or handed-over Smirnoff Ice forces the finder to kneel and chug it; carrying one allows an ice block.
Idli (இட்லி)
Idli (இட்லி), also idly, is a South Indian steamed cake from fermented rice and urad dal batter, leavened by Leuconostoc and Streptococcus. Earliest mention iddalige, c. 920 CE; modern form 10th–13th century; origins contested, possibly Indonesian kedli.
IGA (Canada)
IGA, the Independent Grocers Alliance, is a grocery store banner in Canada operated by Sobeys since 1998, with more than 250 stores in Quebec where it leads supermarket market share.
IHOP
IHOP (International House of Pancakes), American family-dining chain founded July 7, 1958 in Toluca Lake, California by Al and Jerry Lapin; known for pancakes and all-day breakfast, 1,824 restaurants, 99% franchised, owned by Dine Brands Global.
Ike's Love & Sandwiches (restaurant)
Ike's Love & Sandwiches is an American sandwich shop chain founded in 2007 in San Francisco, known for hot sandwiches on Dutch Crunch bread with Dirty Sauce.
Illy
Illy (illycaffè S.p.A.) is an Italian coffee company founded in Trieste in 1933 by Francesco Illy, known for the Illetta espresso machine, pressurized coffee packing, the first commercial coffee pods, a nine-variety 100% Arabica blend, and B Corp certification since 2021.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food industry
COVID-19's impact on the food industry: simultaneous supply and demand shocks to food supply chains, meat plant closures, food-service collapse, transport disruption, and hunger risk from lost income.
Impossible Foods
Impossible Foods: Redwood City, California plant-based meat company founded in 2011 by Pat Brown; maker of the Impossible Burger, whose signature soy leghemoglobin heme ingredient is fermented in engineered yeast.
In vino veritas
In vino veritas (ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια), Latin proverb meaning "in wine, truth": from Alcaeus via Zenobius and Pliny, popularized by Erasmus; experiments find alcohol lowers inhibition but not lying costs.
In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger: American fast-food chain founded 1948 in Baldwin Park, California, by Harry and Esther Snyder as the state's first drive-thru hamburger stand; family-owned by Lynsi Snyder, non-franchised, 400+ locations, fresh never-frozen beef and no freezers or microwaves.
Ina Garten
Ina Garten, born 1948, is the Barefoot Contessa: a Food Network host and author of 14 cookbooks plus the 2024 memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens. She left the White House OMB in 1978 to buy a Hamptons specialty food store, sold it in 1996, and launched a Vox Media podcast in 2026.
InBev
InBev, the 2004-2008 Belgian-Brazilian brewing group formed by merging Interbrew and AmBev; acquired Anheuser-Busch for USD 52 billion in 2008 and became Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Inca Kola
Inca Kola, also called the Golden Kola, is a yellow lemon verbena-flavored Peruvian soft drink created in 1935 by Joseph Robinson Lindley; since 1999 a Coca-Cola and Lindley joint venture, it leads Peru's soft drink market.
Incense
Incense: aromatic resins, woods, herbs, and oils burned as sticks, cones, coils, powders, or loose resins for worship, meditation, and home fragrance; frankincense trade from Arabia, forms compared, and WHO-exceeding emissions.
India pale ale
India pale ale (IPA) is a pale, hop-forward British ale style evolved from October stock ales exported to India from the 1700s; named in 1820s ads, dominated by Burton brewers Bass and Allsopp, and reinvented by American craft brewing.
Indian Chinese cuisine
Indian Chinese (Indo-Chinese, Desi-Chinese) cuisine: an Indianized Chinese cuisine born in Kolkata from late-1700s Hakka immigrants, defined by Schezwan sauce, Hakka noodles, and Nelson Wang's Chicken Manchurian, now India's most popular foreign food.
Indian Coffee House
Indian Coffee House, a worker-owned cooperative cafe chain in India (about 400-500 outlets, 13 societies). Founded 1936 as a colonial Coffee Board chain, taken over by workers under A. K. Gopalan in 1957; known for cheap filter coffee, turbaned waiters, and its role in the Emergency and Kolkata adda culture.
Indian cuisine
Indian cuisine: the regional cooking traditions of the Indian subcontinent, also called the cuisines of India. Defined by religious dietary systems, Mughal and Portuguese influences (chilli, potato, tomato via Goa 1510), rice and wheat staples, and a distinctive negative food-pairing flavor signature.
Indomie
Indomie is an Indonesian brand of instant noodles produced by Indofood, first launched in 1972, best known for the dry Mi Goreng variant and sold in more than 100 countries.
Indonesian cuisine
Indonesian cuisine is the diverse cooking tradition of Indonesia's 17,000-plus islands and nearly 300 ethnic groups, built on rice, spices, coconut milk, and sambal, shaped by Indian, Chinese, Arab, and European influences, with rendang, soto, and tempeh among its best-known dishes.
Indra Nooyi (இந்திரா நூயி)
Indra Nooyi (இந்திரா நூயி), born 1955 in Madras, is the Indian-American former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (2006-2018), architect of Performance with Purpose, later an Amazon director and author of My Life in Full.