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Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver, British celebrity chef and food campaigner, famous for The Naked Chef (1999), the 2005 School Dinners campaign, over 50 million books sold, and the 2019 Jamie's Italian collapse.
Jamón
Jamón is Spanish dry-cured ham from the pig's hind leg, preserved by salt, drying and time. Covers serrano (white pigs, ETG) vs ibérico (Iberian breed, colored seals), curing mechanics, water activity, history from Roman times, and EU quality rules.
Jamón ibérico
Jamón ibérico is Spanish dry-cured ham from the Iberian pig breed, classified by breed percentage (100/75/50%) and feeding (bellota, cebo de campo, cebo) under RD 4/2014, with colored seals, four DOPs, and a 20-month minimum cure, distinct from serrano and prosciutto.
Janine Allis
Janine Allis (born 1965) is an Australian entrepreneur who co-founded Boost Juice in 2000 and Retail Zoo in 2007, directs Kogan.com, joined Sea Shepherd Australia's board, and appeared on Shark Tank, Australian Survivor, and Food Stars.
Japanese cuisine in São Paulo
Japanese cuisine in São Paulo: the Nikkei cooking of the world's largest Japanese diaspora, from the 1908 Kasato Maru and Liberdade's izakaya to hot rolls, Nipo-Brazilian dishes like pirarucu saikyo yaki, and Michelin-starred sushi counters.
Japanese curry (カレーライス)
Japanese curry rice (カレーライス, karē raisu) is a thick, mildly spiced meat-and-vegetable stew over rice, brought via Britain in the Meiji era, adopted by the Imperial Navy against beriberi, and now a national comfort food.
Japanese noodles
Japanese noodles (日本の麺類): udon, soba, somen, hiyamugi, and kansui-based ramen, plus adapted pasta and cold noodles. Defined by fresh-noodle labeling rules (soba ≥30% buckwheat), Edo-era east soba/west udon divide, and 1958 instant ramen.
Japanese tea ceremony
Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu, 茶の湯; chadō, 茶道): the traditional Japanese practice of preparing and serving matcha to guests, refined by Murata Jukō, Takeno Jōō, and Sen no Rikyū, with koicha and usucha, many schools, and wabi aesthetics.
Japanese whisky
Japanese whisky is whisky produced in Japan, beginning with Suntory's Yamazaki distillery in 1923 and Nikka's founding in 1934. Distinctive mizunara oak casks and blending; JSLMA labeling rules since 2024 require Japanese production and three-year maturation.
Japchae (잡채)
Japchae, also spelled chapchae (잡채), is a Korean dish of chewy sweet potato starch noodles stir-fried with vegetables, mushrooms, and usually beef, seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil.
Jarden
Jarden Corporation, founded in 2001 by Martin Franklin and Ian Ashken, was an American consumer products company (Yankee Candle, Coleman, Mr. Coffee) sold to Newell Rubbermaid in 2016 for about $15.3 billion; Delaware courts later valued it at $48.31 per share, below the deal price.
Jared Fogle
Jared Fogle, the "Subway Guy," lost 245 pounds on a Subway diet and was Subway's spokesman from 2000 to 2015, then pleaded guilty to child pornography and sex crimes and received a 15.5-year federal sentence.
Jarlsberg cheese
Jarlsberg (Jarlsberg®) is a Norwegian semi-hard cow's-milk cheese with large eyes and a mild, sweet, nutty flavor, developed in 1956 at the Agricultural University of Norway under Professor Ole Martin Ystgaard and made by TINE SA in Norway, the USA, and Ireland.
Jarritos
Jarritos is a Mexican cane-sugar fruit soda brand founded August 29, 1950 by chemist Francisco "El Güero" Hill in Mexico City; first flavor coffee, later its tamarind soda, now in 45+ countries via Novamex.
Jasmine tea (茉莉花茶)
Jasmine tea (茉莉花茶) is a Chinese reprocessed scented tea made by scenting roasted green tea with fresh jasmine flowers and removing them; Fuzhou is its birthplace, its craft entered UNESCO's 2022 heritage list, and grades are set by scenting rounds under GB/T 22292-2017.
Jay Rayner
Jay Rayner (born 1966) is a British restaurant critic, broadcaster, novelist and jazz pianist, the Observer's critic 1999 to 2025 and then Financial Times critic, known for savage, score-free reviews, the Le Cinq takedown, The Kitchen Cabinet, and the Jay Rayner Sextet.
JBS S.A.
JBS S.A., also known as Friboi and now listed as JBS N.V. on the NYSE, is a Brazilian multinational meatpacking company founded in 1953 in Anápolis, Goiás. It is the world's largest meatpacker, with six protein segments, US operations, and documented deforestation and corruption controversies.
JBS USA
JBS USA, the Greeley, Colorado-based North American and Oceanian arm of Brazil's JBS, is a leading meat processor (beef, pork, poultry, lamb, prepared foods) created by the 2007 Swift & Company acquisition, with 2021 net sales of US$48.8 billion.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) was a French magistrate and author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), the foundational 1825–26 gastronomic text; also the namesake of the triple-cream Brillat-Savarin cheese.
Jean-Philippe Susilovic
Jean-Philippe Susilovic (born 1975, Brussels), called JP, Belgian maître d'hôtel of Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen (UK season 1; US seasons 1-7, 11-12), later restaurant director at Pétrus and co-owner of Kiss the Chef in Ostend.
Jebena (ጀበና)
The jebena (ጀበና), also spelled jabana, is a clay coffee pot used in Ethiopia and Eritrea to brew and serve coffee in the traditional three-round ceremony.
Jeff Smith (chef)
Jeff Smith, born Jeffrey L. Smith, was an American cooking-show host and cookbook author known as "The Frugal Gourmet," whose PBS series ran from 1983 to 1997.
Jellied eels
Jellied eels are a traditional London dish of eels boiled and set in jelly, eaten cold with vinegar. An 18th-century East End specialty sold in pie and mash shops, now rare, made from the critically endangered European eel.
Jelly bean
Jelly bean: small bean-shaped candy with a firm sugar shell and soft chewy center, made by soft sugar panning over 7 to 21 days; first printed references 1886 or 1898, Easter candy since the 1930s, famously favored by Ronald Reagan.
Jelly Belly
Jelly Belly is an American gourmet jelly bean brand launched in 1976 by Herman Goelitz Candy Company, first to flavor bean centers, famous through Ronald Reagan, and acquired by Ferrara Candy Company in 2023.
Jenever
Jenever (genever), the juniper-flavoured grain spirit of Belgium, the Netherlands and French Flanders, ancestor of gin. Made with malt wine, 35-42% ABV, EU-protected since 2008; oude and jonge are recipe types, not ages.
Jennifer Paterson
Jennifer Mary Paterson (1928–1999), British self-taught cook, Spectator columnist, and television presenter, co-star of BBC2's Two Fat Ladies (1996–1999) with Clarissa Dickson Wright, riding the Triumph Thunderbird; died of lung cancer during the third series.
Jenny Craig, Inc.
Jenny Craig, Inc. was an American weight loss company founded in 1983 by Jenny and Sid Craig, sold to Nestlé in 2006, bankrupt in 2023, and relaunched online by Nutrisystem owner Wellful.
Jeppson's Malört
Jeppson's Malört is a Chicago wormwood-based bitter liqueur (Swedish malört = wormwood), created by Carl Jeppson in the 1920s, made by CH Distillery since its 2018 purchase, sold in 30 states, and famous for its punishing aftertaste.
Jeremiah Tower
Jeremiah Tower, American chef and restaurateur of Chez Panisse and Stars fame, pioneer of California cuisine and early celebrity chef, subject of Bourdain-produced documentary The Last Magnificent.