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Anne Burrell
Anne Burrell (born 1969, died June 17, 2025) was an American chef and Food Network star who hosted Worst Cooks in America and Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, trained at the Culinary Institute of America and in Italy, and wrote Cook Like a Rock Star.
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018), American chef, author, and TV host; wrote Kitchen Confidential and hosted A Cook's Tour, No Reservations, The Layover, and CNN's Parts Unknown.
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Travel Channel travel-food documentary series (2005-2012), followed chef Anthony Bourdain sampling cuisine and culture worldwide; 8 seasons, two cinematography Emmys, predecessor to Parts Unknown.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown is a CNN documentary travel and food series (2013-2018, 12 seasons) in which Bourdain explored food, culture, and politics in over forty countries; it won a Peabody Award and multiple Emmys, ending after his June 2018 death.
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), French military pharmacist and agronomist, promoter of the potato in France after Prussian captivity; Sablons 1786 trial, 1789 Traité, bread reform, Institut 1795; guarded-field theft story is a debunked legend.
Antoni Porowski
Antoni Porowski, Canadian TV personality born in Montreal to Polish emigrants, food and wine expert on Netflix's Queer Eye, four-time Emmy nominee, NYT bestselling author of Antoni in the Kitchen, host of Easy-Bake Battle and No Taste Like Home.
Antonia Lofaso
Antonia Lofaso, Los Angeles chef and TV personality, owns Black Market Liquor Bar, Scopa Italian Roots, and DAMA; Top Chef Season 4 alum and Tournament of Champions Season 6 winner (2025).
Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio, born Antonio Mario Gaetano Carluccio, was an Italian cookery writer, restaurateur, and television presenter known in Britain as the godfather of Italian gastronomy.
Antony Worrall Thompson
Antony Worrall Thompson (Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson), English chef and TV broadcaster born in Stratford-upon-Avon; opened Ménage à Trois in 1981, won the Meilleur Ouvrier de Grande Bretagne in 1987, wrote over 30 books, and ran Notting Grill and The Greyhound.
Antwerp hands
Antwerp hands (Antwerpse handjes) are hand-shaped almond biscuits from Antwerp, Belgium, created in 1934 by Jewish Amsterdam-born baker Jos Hakker, referencing the Brabo legend, not Congo atrocities.
Anzac biscuit
Anzac biscuit: eggless oat, coconut and golden syrup biscuit of Australia and New Zealand, originally called Soldiers' Biscuit, renamed after the 1915 Gallipui landings; name legally protected under the Protection of Word 'Anzac' Act 1920.
Apéritif and digestif
Apéritif and digestif: pre-meal and post-meal drinks, French apéritif/digestif, Italian aperitivo/digestivo. Aperitifs 10–25% ABV and drier; digestifs 25–45% ABV, bitter or sweet, served neat.
Appellation
An appellation is a legally defined, protected geographical name on wine labels, requiring grapes from a delimited area made under set production rules, beginning with France's 1935 AOC system.
Appellation d'origine contrôlée
Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) is the French national appellation system, created in 1935, binding products like wine, cheese, and cognac to a delimited terroir and cahier des charges; it is the national equivalent of the European AOP.
Apple cider
Apple cider (sweet cider) is unfiltered pressed apple juice; hard cider is its fermented, alcoholic form. Covers US vs European terminology, colonial American history, pressing and fermentation, pasteurization at 160 F, FDA 5-log rules, and the modern craft revival.
Apple cider vinegar
Apple cider vinegar (ACV, cider vinegar) is vinegar made by fermenting apple juice to cider and then to acetic acid. Distinguished by FDA 4 g/100 mL acidity minimum, the 'mother', modest blood-sugar evidence, and safety limits.
Apple crisp
Apple crisp is a North American baked dessert of spiced apples under a flour, sugar, butter, and oat topping, distinct from the British crumble; first printed in 1916, popularized in 1920s cookbooks.
Apple pie
Apple pie, a baked dessert of spiced apple slices and thickener in a pastry crust, is a 14th-century British invention that became an American icon. Key facts: 1381 English recipe, 1924 'as American as apple pie' ad, filling thickening science.
Apple strudel
Apfelstrudel (apple strudel): Viennese pastry of hand-stretched, paper-thin dough rolled around apples, rum-soaked raisins, cinnamon, and buttered breadcrumbs; Ottoman-derived dough, oldest recipes dated 1696/1697, baked at 180 °C.
Applebee's
Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar is an American casual dining chain founded in 1980 by Bill and T.J. Palmer, with more than 1,400 locations under Dine Brands Global.
Applejack (drink)
Applejack, or Jersey lightning, is American apple brandy born in colonial New Jersey, originally made by freeze-distilling cider (jacking). Laird & Company, founded 1780, still produces blended and straight applejack distinct from French Calvados.
Aquafaba
Aquafaba, or chickpea cooking liquid (bean water), is a plant-based egg-white substitute coined in 2014 by Joël Roessel; it foams, emulsifies, and gels via proteins and saponins, replacing eggs in vegan meringues, mayonnaise, and cocktails.
Aquafina
Aquafina: PepsiCo's purified bottled water brand, launched 1994 in Wichita, Kansas. Municipal tap water purified by reverse osmosis, ozonation, carbon filtration, and UV; average TDS 4 ppm; sold alongside rival Dasani.
Arab cuisine
Arab cuisine (المطبخ العربي) is the cooking of the Arabic-speaking world from the Maghreb to the Gulf. Key facts: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's 10th-century Kitab al-Tabikh with 600+ Abbasid recipes, regional dishes like kabsa and saltah, and influence on European cooking.
Arab culture
Arab culture (الثقافة العربية) is the language-based cultural tradition of the Arab peoples across 22 states from Morocco to Oman, over 400 million people, mostly Muslim but under a fifth of world Muslims, marked by Arabic diglossia, collectivist values, and modern liberalizing value change.
Arabic coffee (قهوة)
Arabic coffee (قهوة, qahwa/gahwa) is a lightly roasted, cardamom-spiced hospitality coffee of the Arabian Peninsula, poured from a dallah into small finjan cups; UNESCO-inscribed in 2015 (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar) and extended to Jordan in 2024.
Arak (عراق) (drink)
Arak (عرق) is the Levant's grape-based, anise-flavored distilled spirit, national drink of Lebanon, typically 50-63% ABV, triple-distilled with aniseed on the final run, and turning milky white with water via the anethole louche effect.
Aramark
Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) is a Philadelphia-based food and facilities services company, formed as ARA in 1959 and renamed Aramark in 1994. It earned $18.5 billion in fiscal 2025, employs about 270,000 people, and ranks third behind Compass Group and Sodexo in contract catering.
Arancini
Arancini are fried rice balls coated in breadcrumbs, a staple of Sicilian street food. They feature regional fillings like meat ragù with peas or melted cheese and ham.
Arby's
Arby's is an American fast-food sandwich chain founded by brothers Leroy and Forrest Raffel in Boardman, Ohio, in 1964, known for slow-roasted roast beef sandwiches and Curly Fries.