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Argentine cuisine
Argentine cuisine, the culinary tradition of Argentina, blends Indigenous, Spanish colonial, and Italian immigrant influences, best known for beef, asado, yerba mate, and dulce de leche.
Argentine pizza
Argentine pizza, or pizza argentina, is the thick, pan-baked, cheese-heavy pizza style that developed in Buenos Aires from Italian immigration, known for fugazzeta, fainá, and pizzerías like Banchero and Güerrín.
Argon in food packaging
Argon in food packaging: use of the noble gas argon (E 938, CAS 7440-37-1) as a modified-atmosphere packaging gas. FDA GRAS notice GRN 57 (2000); EU E 938; denser than nitrogen, displaces oxygen, extends shelf-life.
Arizona Beverage Company
Arizona Beverage Company (AriZona, AriZona Tea), founded by Ferolito and Vultaggio, launched 1992 in New York; family-owned maker of 99-cent 23.5-oz ready-to-drink iced teas, lemonades, and juices.
Armagnac
Armagnac is a grape brandy from Gascony, southwestern France, and the oldest French eau-de-vie, first documented in 1310. AOC since 1936 across Bas-Armagnac, Ténarèze, and Haut-Armagnac, it is typically single-distilled in a continuous alambic armagnacais and has a strong vintage tradition.
Armand de Brignac
Armand de Brignac, nicknamed Ace of Spades, is a prestige Champagne brand launched in 2006 by the Cattier family and promoted by Jay-Z, co-owned 50/50 with Moët Hennessy since 2021, producing about 100,000 bottles yearly in Chigny-les-Roses.
Armenian cuisine
Armenian cuisine, the culinary tradition of the Armenian people (haykakan khohanots), features lavash bread, khorovats, tolma, khash, and harissa, split into Western and Eastern branches after the 1915 genocide, with UNESCO-recognized lavash and a 6,100-year-old Areni winery.
Armour and Company
Armour and Company (Armour & Co.) was a Chicago meatpacking firm founded by the Armour brothers in 1867; led by Philip Danforth Armour from 1875, it pioneered by-products processing and refrigerated distribution, became one of the Big Five packers, and lost family control in the early 1920s.
Arnold Palmer (drink)
The Arnold Palmer is a nonalcoholic mix of iced tea and lemonade named after golfer Arnold Palmer, originating in 1960s Palm Springs; AriZona's Lite Half & Half and a 5% ABV Spiked version are the main branded products.
Arrack
Arrack (also spelled arak) is a South and Southeast Asian distilled spirit made from coconut-palm sap, sugarcane, rice, or fruit; related to but distinct from Middle Eastern anise arak, with Sri Lanka and Batavia arrack as leading styles.
Arthur Guinness
Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), Irish brewer from Celbridge, founder of the St James's Gate brewery, Dublin; signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 a year in 1759, began with ale, switched to porter in 1799, and left the business to his son Arthur II.
Arthur Treacher's
Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips, American fast-seafood chain founded 1969 in Columbus, Ohio, named for the British actor; peaked near 800 stores in the 1970s, declined to three Northeast Ohio restaurants plus a Nathan's Famous ghost-kitchen brand.
Asado
Asado: South American wood-ember grilling tradition of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Paraguay, naming the method, the meat, and the gathering; cooked on a parrilla with achuras, asado de tira, and chimichurri.
Asafoetida
Asafoetida (hing) is the pungent oleo-gum resin from Ferula taproots of Iran and Afghanistan, used as an onion-garlic substitute in Jain and Brahmin cooking; India imports nearly all of it, about 1,441 tonnes in 2022-23.
Asahi Breweries (アサヒビール)
Asahi Breweries (アサヒビール), Japanese brewer founded 1889 as Osaka Brewery, re-established 1949 from the Dai Nippon Brewery split; launched Asahi Super Dry in 1987, took top Japanese beer share in 1998, and now operates under Asahi Group Holdings.
Asda
Asda (Asda Stores Ltd) is a British supermarket retailer founded in 1965 from the Asquith brothers' Queens supermarkets and Associated Dairies, headquartered in Leeds, owned since 2024 mainly by TDR Capital, with about 11.5% UK grocery market share.
Aseptic processing
Aseptic processing sterilizes food or drugs and their packaging separately, then fills and seals them in a sterile environment; UHT at 135–150 °C gives shelf-stable products lasting up to a year without refrigeration, distinct from retort canning.
Asiago cheese
Asiago is an Italian PDO semi-cooked cow's milk cheese from Vicenza and Trento provinces, made in two types: Fresco (pressato), mild and aged 20 days, and Stagionato (d'allevo), made from partially skimmed milk and aged at least 90 days.
Asian cuisine
Asian cuisine is an umbrella term for the culinary traditions of Asia, spanning East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Central Asian, and West Asian systems. Key facts: regional divisions, rice staples, fermentation, diaspora adaptations, and a global restaurant market growing at 11% CAGR outside Asia Pacific.
Asian-American cuisine
Asian-American cuisine is the food culture of Americans of Asian descent, blending Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese traditions, known for fusion dishes like Roy Choi's Korean taco.
Asma Khan
Asma Khan, Indian-born British restaurateur and cookbook author, founder of London's Darjeeling Express with its all-female kitchen of home cooks; first British chef on Netflix's Chef's Table and a 2024 TIME100 honoree.
Aspartame
Aspartame (E 951), also called NutraSweet or Equal, is an artificial dipeptide sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, first FDA-approved in 1974; IARC classed it Group 2B in 2023 while JECFA and EFSA reaffirmed its 40 mg/kg ADI.
Aspartame controversy
Aspartame controversy: the decades-long safety dispute over the artificial sweetener (E 951, NutraSweet), covering its suspended 1974 US approval, Ramazzini cancer studies, the 2023 IARC Group 2B classification versus JECFA's reaffirmed 40 mg/kg ADI, and ongoing calls for an EU ban.
Aspic
Aspic is a savory jelly of clarified meat, fish, or vegetable stock set with gelatin, used to glaze, mold, and garnish cold dishes; also called gelée, distinct from consommé by gel strength, with roots in medieval Le Viandier.
Assam tea
Assam tea: black tea from the Brahmaputra valley, India, from Camellia sinensis var. assamica; noted 1823 by Robert Bruce, first sold in London 1839, malty full-bodied CTC and orthodox teas, about half of India's output.
Associated British Foods
Associated British Foods plc (ABF), British diversified food, ingredients and retail group founded 1935 by Garfield Weston; owns Primark, Twinings, British Sugar. £19.5bn revenue, 138,000 employees, 56 countries; Primark demerger planned by end 2027.
Atole
Atole (Nahuatl atolli) is a pre-Hispanic hot maize beverage from Mexico, Guatemala, and Central America, made by boiling nixtamalized masa in water or milk; champurrado is its chocolate version, traditionally served with tamales.
Au Bon Pain
Au Bon Pain is a Boston-based fast-casual bakery-café chain founded by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich, whose parent became Panera Bread in 1999; now owned by Ampex Brands with 250+ cafés in hospitals, universities, and airports.
Au jus
Au jus (French, 'with juice') describes meat, especially roast beef, served with its own thin, unthickened pan juices, or in American usage the sauce itself; unlike gravy it is never thickened with flour or dairy.
Auchan
Auchan: French international retail group founded 1961 by Gérard Mulliez in Roubaix, owned by the Mulliez family; hypermarkets, supermarkets, Alcampo; about 9% French market share, restructuring since 2024.