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Jerez de la Frontera
Jerez de la Frontera, also Xerez or Sherish, is a city in Cádiz, Andalusia, center of the sherry (Jerez-Xérès-Sherry) wine region; known for bodegas, the Horse Fair, flamenco, horses, and motorsport, with 213,688 inhabitants and Spanish Capital of Gastronomy 2026.
Jerk (cooking)
Jerk (cooking): Jamaican method of seasoning meat with allspice, scotch bonnet, thyme, and scallion, then slow-smoking over pimento wood; attributed to the Maroons, with debated Taíno and African origins.
Jerky
Jerky is lean meat cut into strips and dried to a shelf-stable snack; the name comes from Quechua ch'arki via Spanish charqui, with Native American origins, USDA safety rules (160°F precook, aw ≤ 0.85), and 12-month commercial shelf life.
Jerry Baldwin
Jerry Baldwin (born 1942) is an American specialty-coffee entrepreneur who co-founded and led Starbucks as president from 1971 to 1987, then bought and ran Peet's Coffee until 2001.
Jersey Mike's Subs
Jersey Mike's Subs, founded as Mike's Subs in Point Pleasant, New Jersey in 1956, is a fast-casual submarine sandwich franchisor bought by Peter Cancro in 1975, franchised since 1987, majority-owned by Blackstone from 2025, and NYSE-listed as JMKE since 2026.
Jessica Seinfeld
Jessica Seinfeld (née Sklar), American author and philanthropist, wife of Jerry Seinfeld; founder of Good+Foundation (formerly Baby Buggy, 2001) and author of six bestselling cookbooks including Deceptively Delicious (2007), later cleared in a plagiarism dispute with Missy Chase Lapine.
Jet Tila
Jet Tila (Jet Tilakamonkul), born 1975 in Los Angeles, is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, Food Network star, and inaugural Culinary Ambassador of Thai Cuisine from the family behind Bangkok Market.
Jewish cuisine
Jewish cuisine, also called Jewish cooking, is the family of regional cuisines of Jewish communities worldwide, including Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi styles, all shaped by kosher law.
Jian ware
Jian ware (jianzhan; Japanese tenmoku) is a black-glazed stoneware tea bowl made at the Jian kilns in Shuiji, Jianyang, Fujian, China, and prized above all other tea bowls in Song-dynasty China (960–1279).
Jiaozi (饺子)
Jiaozi (饺子, 餃子) are Chinese dumplings of thin unleavened wheat wrappers around meat or vegetable filling, boiled, steamed, or pan-fried (guotie). Known by Han times as huntun, central to Lunar New Year, source of Japanese gyoza.
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville is a hospitality and lifestyle brand named for Buffett's 1977 song, spanning Key West-rooted restaurants, hotels and resorts since 2010, Margaritaville at Sea cruises, and licensed food, spirits and merchandise.
Jimmy John Liautaud
Jimmy John Liautaud (born 1964) is the American founder of Jimmy John's sandwich chain, started in 1983 in Charleston, Illinois with a $25,000 father loan; sold stakes to Roark Capital and Inspire Brands by 2019; Forbes net worth $2.6 billion.
Jimmy John's
Jimmy John's: American sandwich chain founded 1983 by Jimmy John Liautaud in Charleston, Illinois; over 2,600 U.S. locations, franchised, owned by Inspire Brands since 2019.
Jjamppong (짬뽕)
Jjamppong (짬뽕, also jjambbong) is a spicy seafood noodle soup of Korean-Chinese cuisine, borrowed from Japanese champon and adapted from Chinese chaomamian, made with pork, seafood, vegetables, chili oil, and chicken or pork bone broth.
Joan Kroc
Joan Kroc (1928-2003), widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, was an American philanthropist whose bequests included $1.5 billion to the Salvation Army for Kroc Centers and $225 million to NPR.
Jock Zonfrillo
Jock Zonfrillo, legally Barry Zonfrillo, was a Scottish-born chef in Australia who founded Adelaide restaurant Orana and judged MasterChef Australia from 2020 until his death in 2023.
Joe Bastianich
Joe Bastianich (Joseph Bastianich), born 1968 in Queens, New York, is an American restaurateur and winemaker who co-founded restaurants with Mario Batali and judged MasterChef.
Joe Coulombe
Joe Coulombe (Joseph Hardin Coulombe, 1930–2020), American retailer who founded Trader Joe's in Pasadena in 1967 after running Pronto Markets; sold the chain to Aldi's Theo Albrecht in 1979 and pioneered its all-private-label model.
Joël Robuchon
Joël Robuchon (1945–2018), French chef and restaurateur, held the world record of about 31–32 Michelin stars, was Gault & Millau's Chef of the Century, created L'Atelier counter dining, and was famous for his pommes purée.
Joey Chestnut
Joey "Jaws" Chestnut is an American competitive eater who has won the Nathan's Famous hot dog contest 18 times and holds the record of 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
John C. Miller
John C. Miller (John Chester Miller, 1907–1991) was an American historian of the American Revolution; Harvard-trained under Samuel Eliot Morison, taught at Bryn Mawr and Stanford, held the Edgar E. Robinson professorship, and wrote Sam Adams, Origins of the American Revolution, and The Wolf by the Ears.
John Cadbury
John Cadbury (1801–1889) was an English Quaker grocer and tea dealer who founded the cocoa business that became Cadbury, opening his first Birmingham shop in 1824.
John Catsimatidis
John Catsimatidis (born 1948, Nisyros, Greece) is a Greek American billionaire who owns Gristedes supermarkets, United Refining, and Red Apple Media's 77 WABC; 2013 NYC mayoral candidate and Cats Roundtable radio host.
John Diamond (journalist)
John Diamond (1953–2001), British Times columnist and broadcaster, husband of Nigella Lawson, known for his weekly Times cancer column, What the Papers Say 1997 award, and the book C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too.
John Lewis Partnership
John Lewis Partnership: British employee-owned retail group running John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets (founded 1864; trust settlement 1950); FY2023 sales £12.25bn, loss before tax £234m.
John Mackey (businessman)
John Mackey (born 1954) is the American co-founder and longtime CEO of Whole Foods Market, which he started via SaferWay in Austin in 1978, led through its 2017 $13.7 billion Amazon sale, and left in 2022; author of Conscious Capitalism.
John Paul DeJoria
John Paul DeJoria (born 1944, Los Angeles) is an American self-made billionaire who co-founded John Paul Mitchell Systems hair care in 1980 with $700 and Patrón Tequila in 1989, sold to Bacardi for $5.1 billion in 2018, and signs his motto 'success unshared is failure' to his philanthropy.
John Schnatter
John Schnatter, known as Papa John, is the American founder of Papa John's pizza, which he started in 1984 from a broom closet at his father's tavern in Jeffersonville, Indiana; he led it to IPO and global scale before resigning as chairman in 2018.
John Stith Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton (1831-1888), Georgia pharmacist and Confederate lieutenant colonel, created the original Coca-Cola formula, first sold May 8, 1886 at Jacobs Pharmacy, Atlanta; he sold his rights for $1,750 before dying that year.
John Torode
John Torode, Australian-born London chef and restaurateur, co-judged BBC MasterChef with Gregg Wallace 2005-2025 after Conran-group kitchens and Smiths of Smithfield; sacked by the BBC in July 2025 over an upheld racist-language allegation.