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Induction cooking
Induction cooking heats ferromagnetic cookware directly via a 25-50 kHz magnetic field from a coil under a glass-ceramic top, reaching up to 90% efficiency versus 40% for gas; first home units appeared in 1974.
Inés Páez Nin
Inés Páez Nin, known as Chef Tita, is a Dominican chef, restaurateur, and TV judge leading New Dominican Cuisine; author of La nueva cocina dominicana, driver of Law 20-18, and 2025 Champions of Change and Best Chef Awards honoree.
Inspire Brands
Inspire Brands is a privately held American restaurant company headquartered in Atlanta, founded in 2018 and grown by acquisition to more than 33,000 restaurants worldwide.
Instacart
Instacart (Maplebear Inc., Nasdaq: CART) is a San Francisco-based grocery technology marketplace connecting customers, retailers, advertisers, and independent-contractor shoppers across 2,200+ retail banners and nearly 100,000 stores in the US and Canada; founded 2012, IPO 2023 at $30 per share.
Instant coffee
Instant coffee (soluble coffee) is a dried water-soluble powder made exclusively from roasted coffee by brewing, extraction, and spray- or freeze-drying. Key facts: Nescafé launched 1938, yields 40–55%, freeze-drying costs 35% more, Asia-Pacific buys half the volume.
Instant noodles
Instant noodles are precooked, dried wheat noodles prepared with hot water, invented as Chicken Ramen by Momofuku Ando in Japan in 1958. Global demand reached 124.21 billion servings in 2025; China/Hong Kong, Indonesia, and India lead.
Instant Pot
Instant Pot is a brand of electric multi-cookers invented by Robert Wang, launched on Amazon in 2010, famous for pressure cooking plus slow cook, sauté, steam, rice, and yogurt functions; owned by Centre Lane Partners since the 2023 Instant Brands bankruptcy.
Institute of Food Technologists
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is a nonprofit scientific society for food science, founded in 1939, whose members work in academia, government, and industry.
International availability of McDonald's products
International availability of McDonald's products: how the chain sells a standardized core menu, like the Big Mac, in over 100 countries while adapting items such as India's McAloo Tikki and Japan's Teriyaki Burger to local tastes, religion, and sourcing.
International Coffee Day
International Coffee Day, marked 1 October, began as an ICO campaign in 2015 and became a UN observance by General Assembly resolution 80/248 in March 2026, celebrating coffee and its 25 million farming households.
International Tea Day
International Tea Day (国际茶日), a UN observance on 21 May since resolution A/RES/74/241 (2019), led by FAO to honor tea's rural development role; also a separate 15 December tea-worker observance since 2005.
Inuit cuisine
Inuit cuisine, the food culture of Inuit across Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, centers on country foods (seal, whale, caribou, fish), raw meat for vitamin C, food-sharing networks, and a post-contact shift toward market foods with nutrient and contaminant trade-offs.
Iranian cuisine
Iranian cuisine, also known as Persian cuisine, is the culinary tradition of Iran, whose national dish, chelow kabab, pairs rice with grilled meat and favors sour, herb flavors.
Irish coffee
Irish coffee (Caife Gaelach) is a hot cocktail of coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar, and floated lightly whipped cream, invented by Joe Sheridan at Foynes, Ireland, in the early 1940s and introduced to America at San Francisco's Buena Vista Cafe on November 10, 1952.
Irish cuisine
Irish cuisine: national cooking of Ireland built on dairy, grass-fed beef and lamb, pork, potato, seafood and soda bread; from pre-potato cereal-and-milk diet through the Famine to the modern food revival.
Irish whiskey
Irish whiskey, uisce beatha Éireannach, is whiskey distilled and aged at least three years on the island of Ireland, known for triple distillation and the single pot still style; exports reached about €930 million in 2025 with the USA as top market.
Irn-Bru
Irn-Bru, also IRN-BRU, is Scotland's iconic orange carbonated soft drink, launched as Iron Brew by A.G. Barr in Falkirk on 15 April 1901, renamed in 1947, made from a secret 32-flavour recipe and the slogan 'Made in Scotland from Girders'.
Iron Chef America
Iron Chef America: Food Network cooking-competition series (2005-2018), second US adaptation of Fuji TV's Iron Chef, following Iron Chef USA (2001). Iron Chefs Flay, Batali, Morimoto, Cora, Symon, Garces, Forgione, Zakarian; Alton Brown commentator, Mark Dacascos Chairman, secret-ingredient one-hour battles.
Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend
Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend is a 2022 American unscripted cooking-competition series based on Fuji Television's format, released as eight episodes on Netflix.
Iron sodium citrate complex (salt anticaking agent)
Iron sodium citrate complex (iron citrate), a dark green/red iron-citrate solution used as a salt anticaking agent; GRAS Notice 1036 by Cargill, FDA no questions Oct 6, 2022, max 135 mg/kg salt.
Isaac Tigrett
Isaac Burton Tigrett, American entrepreneur from Jackson, Tennessee, co-founded the Hard Rock Cafe in London in 1971 with Peter Morton and founded the House of Blues in 1992; later a Sai Baba follower and hospital philanthropist.
ISO 22000
ISO 22000 is the ISO international standard for food safety management systems, applicable to any organization in the food chain. Current edition ISO 22000:2018 with a 2024 climate action amendment; HACCP-based; not GFSI-recognized alone, unlike FSSC 22000.
ISO 3103
ISO 3103 is the ISO standard (with BS 6008:1980 as its British origin) specifying how to brew tea liquor for sensory tests: 2 g per 100 ml, boiling water, 6 minutes for black tea, standardized porcelain pots, bowls, and milk handling.
Isomaltooligosaccharides
Isomaltooligosaccharides (IMOs), glucose oligomers with alpha-1,6 linkages made from starch, are sweeteners and bulking agents in bars and shakes; recent work reclassifies them as slowly digestible carbohydrates rather than prebiotic fiber.
Israeli cuisine
Israeli cuisine: the food culture of Israel, a blend of Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, Palestinian-Arab and Mediterranean traditions. Key dishes include hummus, falafel, shakshuka, kugel, cholent; shaped by WIZO cookbooks, the 1950s austerity, kashrut, and appropriation debates.
Ital
Ital (I-tal) is the Rastafari dietary practice from 1930s Jamaica: a largely plant-based way of eating, derived from "vital", that avoids salt, additives, and processed foods, tied to livity and distinct from veganism.
Italian beef
Italian beef: a Chicago sandwich of thin-sliced slow-roasted beef with jus, sweet peppers or giardiniera on an Italian roll; invented by Italian immigrants, famous via Al's Beef, Mr. Beef, and The Bear.
Italian cuisine
Italian cuisine (cucina italiana), the regionally diverse cooking tradition of Italy, inscribed by UNESCO on the Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List on 10 December 2025 as 'Italian cooking, between sustainability and biocultural diversity', the first entire national cuisine so recognized.
Italian ice
Italian ice, called water ice in Philadelphia, is a dairy-free frozen dessert of water, sugar, and fruit flavoring encompassing sorbetto, granita, and slush, brought to the US by Italian immigrants.
Italian meal structure
Italian meal structure: the sequenced Italian meal (antipasto, primo, secondo, contorno, dolce) and the three daily meals, colazione, pranzo, cena, with EPIC energy data, historical timing shifts, and modern de-structuration trends.