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Junior Bake Off
Junior Bake Off is the British children's spin-off of The Great British Bake Off, made by Love Productions. Began on CBBC in 2011 with Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry judging; revived on Channel 4 in 2019 with Harry Hill hosting and Ravneet Gill and Liam Charles judging bakers aged 9-15.
Junk food
Junk food: informal term for high-calorie, low-nutrient foods high in sugar, salt, or fat; term coined by Michael Jacobson (CSPI) in 1972; no accepted legal definition; regulators use HFSS or ultra-processed food categories instead.
Just Eat
Just Eat is the European food-ordering brand of Just Eat Takeaway.com, formed when Takeaway.com (founded 2000, Netherlands) merged with Just Eat (Denmark, 2001) in 2020; sold Grubhub for $650m after a $7.3bn purchase, and was taken private by Prosus for €4.1bn in 2025.
Justin Warner
Justin Warner (born 1984) is a self-taught American chef, Brooklyn Do or Dine co-owner, Food Network Star season 8 winner (2012), author of The Laws of Cooking (2015), and Tournament of Champions play-by-play announcer.
Justin Wilson (chef)
Justin Wilson (1914–2001), the "Cookin' Cajun" chef and humorist of Roseland, Louisiana, hosted PBS cooking shows like Louisiana Cookin', recorded 27 comedy albums, wrote Cajun cookbooks, and popularized Cajun cuisine with "I garontee!"
Kabsa (كبسة)
Kabsa (كبسة), also called Makbous or Machboos in GCC states, is Saudi Arabia's spiced one-pot rice-and-meat dish, named from kabs (pressure), served communally with loomi, raisins, and nuts.
Kaiseki
Kaiseki (懐石料理/会席料理) is Japan's traditional multi-course haute cuisine, originating in tea-ceremony meals perfected by Sen no Rikyu and codified in the Edo period; served at ryotei and ryokan with seasonal courses, it differs from omakase service.
Kaiser roll
Kaiser roll (Kaisersemmel, Vienna roll, hard roll, kajzerka): a crusty round Austrian white bread roll with a five-part star top, minimum 46 g baked weight, codex-defined, most-eaten in Austria; in the US the default NY/NJ breakfast-sandwich roll.
Kaiserschmarrn
Kaiserschmarrn (Kaiserschmarren, császármorzsa) is Austria's torn, caramelized shredded pancake dusted with powdered sugar and served with plum compote; a 16th-century rural dish later tied to Emperor Franz Joseph I by legend.
Kapsalon
Kapsalon: a Dutch takeaway dish invented in Rotterdam in 2003, fries topped with shoarma or döner meat, melted Gouda, salad, garlic sauce, and sambal in an aluminium tray, named after hairdresser Nataniël Gomes.
Karaage (唐揚げ)
Karaage (唐揚げ, also 空揚げ) is a Japanese frying technique and fried-chicken dish: bite-sized pieces marinated in soy sauce and mirin, coated in potato starch, and deep fried. First on restaurant menus in 1930s Ginza; Nakatsu, Oita is its specialty-shop capital.
Karaoke Bảo Trang
Karaoke Bảo Trang (Karaoke Bảo Trang KTV) is the shared name of several Vietnamese karaoke bars, chiefly a neoclassical 2015 complex in Cẩm Phả, Quảng Ninh, and a Hưng Yên venue in Văn Lâm district linked to a 2019 drug raid; other namesakes exist in Thạch Hòa and Hưng Yên city.
Karl Albrecht
Karl Hans Albrecht (1920–2014), German entrepreneur who with brother Theo turned their mother's Essen grocery shop into the Aldi discount empire; after the 1961 split he led Aldi Süd, expanding it internationally, and died Germany's richest person.
Kashmiri cuisine
Kashmiri cuisine, including the wazwan feast (وازِوان), is the rice-based food tradition of the Kashmir Valley, with distinct Muslim and Pandit streams, meat dishes like rogan josh and gushtaba, saffron and yogurt, and kahwa and noon chai teas.
Kashrut (כַּשְׁרוּת)
Kashrut (כַּשְׁרוּת), the Jewish dietary laws, defines kosher food: permitted animals, blood prohibition, meat-dairy separation, shechita slaughter, rabbinic certification in Israel and abroad.
Kate Quilton
Kate Quilton (Katie Marie Quilton, born 1983) is an English TV presenter and journalist, long-time host of Channel 4's Food Unwrapped (since 2012), Superfoods: The Real Story, and a former Channel 4 multiplatform commissioning editor.
Katie Lee (chef)
Katie Lee Biegel (born 1981), also known as Katie Lee Joel, is a West Virginia-born cookbook author, novelist, and TV food personality, inaugural host of Bravo's Top Chef and original co-host of Food Network's The Kitchen (2014–2025).
Katsu-sando
Katsu-sando (カツサンド), also katsu sando, is a Japanese cutlet sandwich: panko-fried tonkatsu in shokupan milk bread with tonkatsu sauce and cabbage. Attributed to Isen in Ueno, Tokyo, in 1935, devised so geisha could eat without smearing lipstick; now a konbini staple and global restaurant item.
Katsudon (かつ丼)
Katsudon (かつ丼) is a Japanese rice-bowl dish of breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet over rice, most often simmered with onion in dashi broth and bound in beaten egg.
Katz's Delicatessen
Katz's Delicatessen, founded 1888 on Manhattan's Lower East Side at 205 E. Houston Street, is the oldest continuously operating American Jewish deli, famous for hand-carved 30-day-cured pastrami on rye, the When Harry Met Sally scene, and its non-kosher, kosher-style menu.
Kaufland
Kaufland, a German hypermarket chain of Schwarz Group (which also owns Lidl), headquartered in Neckarsulm; over 1,600 stores in 8 countries, 36.7 billion euros revenue in fiscal 2025, kaufland.de marketplace in 9 countries.
Kava
Kava (Piper methysticum, kava kava, yaqona) is a South Pacific pepper-family plant whose water-extracted roots make a sedative, anxiolytic beverage; kavalactones act as CNS depressants, with rare liver injury prompting a 2002 FDA advisory and bans in Europe and Canada.
Kaymak
Kaymak (kajmak, eishta, geymar) is a Turkish and Balkan clotted cream made by simmering and cooling milk, traditionally buffalo milk, with at least 60% milk fat; Afyon Kaymağı holds EU PDO status.
Kebab
Kebab (Persian kabāb, grilled meat): family of skewered, grilled, or spit-roasted meat dishes from Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and South Asian cuisines, including shish, adana, and döner; the Berlin döner sandwich dates to 1972.
Kedgeree
Kedgeree, from Hindi khichdi (khicṛī), is a British breakfast dish of smoked haddock, curried rice, and hard-boiled eggs, adapted from the Indian rice-lentil dish khichdi; first recipe recorded 1790, popular in Victorian England.
Kefir
Kefir is a fermented milk drink made with kefir grains, symbiotic bacteria and yeasts, originating around Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus. Contains 0.3-1.0% alcohol, dominated by Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens; health trial evidence remains limited.
Keg
Keg: a sealed, pressurized cylindrical container for storing, transporting, and dispensing beer and other beverages; also called a corny keg (Cornelius) in homebrew. Distinguished from the unpressurized cask by its single top valve, CO2-driven draft dispense, and longer service window.
Keith Floyd
Keith Floyd (1943-2009), English cook and TV personality, pioneered location-based cookery shows with BBC producer David Pritchard, beginning with Floyd on Fish; 26 series, 23 books, died of a heart attack in Dorset in 2009.
Kellogg's
Kellogg's, brand of the Kellogg Company founded 1906 in Battle Creek, Michigan by W.K. Kellogg; maker of Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes. Split in 2023 into Kellanova and WK Kellogg Co; WK Kellogg being bought by Ferrero for about $3.1 billion.
Kenji Fujimoto (藤本健二)
Kenji Fujimoto (藤本健二, born 1947) is the pen name of a Japanese sushi chef who was Kim Jong-il's personal chef and confidant 1988–2001, fled to Japan, wrote the 2003 bestseller I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook, later returned to Pyongyang at Kim Jong-un's invitation, and ran the restaurant Takahashi.