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Liverwurst
Liverwurst (Leberwurst) is a spreadable German cooked sausage of precooked meat, fat, spices, and 10–35% liver; US law requires at least 30% liver, and Braunschweiger is its smoked American variant.
Lo mein
Lo mein (捞面, lāo miàn), Cantonese for "tossed noodles", is a Chinese dish of boiled wheat noodles mixed with sauce, vegetables, and meat; distinct from crisp chow mein and reshaped in American Chinese takeout.
Loblaw Companies
Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food and pharmacy retailer, founded 1919 in Toronto by Theodore Loblaw and incorporated 1956 under George Weston ownership; operates 2,400+ stores including Loblaws, No Frills, and Shoppers Drug Mart with about 28% grocery share.
Loblaws
Loblaws is the flagship supermarket banner of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food and pharmacy retailer, founded in Toronto in 1919 by Theodore Pringle Loblaw, controlled by George Weston Limited, with over 2,400 stores and an estimated 28% grocery market share.
Local food
Local food: food produced, processed, and sold within a defined area via short supply chains; no standard geographic definition exists. Evidence shows no inherent sustainability advantage over global food; outcomes depend on supply chain, product, and country.
Loco moco
Loco moco is a Hawaiian dish of white rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy, and a fried egg, invented in 1949 at the Lincoln Grill in Hilo and popularized by Cafe 100; it belongs to Hawaii's local, plantation-era food tradition, not pre-contact Native Hawaiian cuisine.
Locro
Locro (Quechua ruqru/lukru) is a thick Andean stew of maize, beans, and squash; Argentina's meat-rich patriotic version is eaten on 25 May and 9 July, while Ecuador's locro de papa is a potato-cheese soup.
Locust bean gum
Locust bean gum (carob bean gum, E 410), a galactomannan from Ceratonia siliqua seed endosperm, used as thickener and stabilizer; does not gel alone but synergizes with xanthan gum and kappa-carrageenan.
Lodi, California
Lodi, California: Central Valley city and namesake of the Lodi AVA, federally recognized 1986, about 550,000 acres with 82,000+ planted; seven sub-AVAs since 2006; known for old-vine Zinfandel, Tokay sandy loam, and LODI RULES sustainable certification.
Loire Valley
Loire Valley (Val de Loire): French wine region along France's longest river, 42,000 ha, 34 PDOs plus IGP Val de Loire, from Muscadet and Chenin Blanc to Sancerre Sauvignon; UNESCO-listed middle Loire, third-largest French PDO wine region.
Lollipop
Lollipop (lolly, sucker): hard candy on a stick, cooked to hard-crack from sugar, corn syrup, water and acids. Word dates to early 1800s Britain; stick candy after 1890; George Smith 1908.
Lomi-lomi salmon
Lomi-lomi salmon, also called lomi salmon, is a traditional Hawaiian cold side dish of salt-cured salmon hand-massaged with tomato and onion, a fixture of luaus and plate meals.
London Beer Flood
The London Beer Flood was an 1814 industrial accident in which a giant vat of porter burst at a London brewery, killing eight people in the St Giles slum.
Long Island iced tea
Long Island iced tea: IBA official cocktail of vodka, tequila, white rum, gin, triple sec, lemon, syrup, and cola; no tea. Created by Robert Butt at the Oak Beach Inn, New York, 1972; a Tennessee 1920s claim is disputed.
Long John Silver's
Long John Silver's is an American fast-food seafood and chicken chain founded in 1969 in Lexington, Kentucky, headquartered in Louisville, known for hand-battered Alaska pollock, hushpuppies, and Yum! Brands ownership from the 2000s to 2011.
Longaniza
Longaniza (Filipino longganisa) is a long, thin pork sausage of Spanish origin, descended from the Roman lucanica of Lucania. Unlike chorizo it is mostly paprika-free, tied as one long rope, and spans Spanish cured styles, Mexican regional versions with achiote, Dominican and Puerto Rican fresh styles, and sweet Filipino longganisa.
Longjing tea
Longjing tea (龙井茶, Dragon Well tea), especially West Lake Longjing (西湖龙井), is a flat pan-fired green tea from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with GI-protected Xihu, Qiantang, and Yuezhou zones, Qianlong's 18 imperial tea trees, and hand-fired spring harvests.
Lorraine Pascale
Lorraine Pascale (born 1972, London) is a British celebrity chef, cookbook author, and former 1990s fashion model, first black British model on US Elle, known for BBC's Baking Made Easy and Food Network judging roles.
Los Pollos Hermanos
Los Pollos Hermanos ("The Chicken Brothers") is the fictional fried-chicken chain in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, founded by Gus Fring, run as a meth front, filmed at Twisters in Albuquerque, with 2017 pop-ups and a $10 million fictional valuation.
Lotus Bakeries
Lotus Bakeries, also branded Biscoff, is a Belgian family-controlled snacking company founded in 1932 in Lembeke, known for Lotus Biscoff caramelised cookies and spread, listed on Euronext Brussels (LOTB) with 2025 revenue of EUR 1,355 million.
Louis XIII (cognac)
Louis XIII is Rémy Martin's ultra-premium cognac, created in 1874 by Paul-Émile Rémy Martin: a blend of up to 1,200 Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie aged 40–100 years, bottled at 40% ABV in a Baccarat decanter, retailing from just over £3,000.
Louisiana Creole cuisine
Louisiana Creole cuisine, cuisine Creole, is the urban New Orleans culinary tradition blending French, Spanish, African, Caribbean, Native American, and Italian influences; known for gumbo, jambalaya, tomatoes, and the Holy Trinity, distinct from rural Cajun cooking.
Loupiac
Loupiac, Gironde commune in Entre-deux-Mers, France, home to the Gallo-Roman villa and Benedictine priory of Saint-Romain (Monument Historique, 2011/2024) and the AOC Loupiac sweet white wine, similar to Sauternes.
Loyd Grossman
Loyd Grossman (born 1950, Massachusetts) is a British-American broadcaster known for MasterChef and Through the Keyhole, creator of Loyd Grossman sauces, NHS Better Hospital Food panel chair, and Chair of the RSA from 2024, knighted in 2025.
Luca Manfè
Luca Manfè, Italian chef from Aviano, Friuli, and New York restaurant manager; winner of MasterChef US Season 4 (2013), first male and first returning winner, cookbook author of My Italian Kitchen, Dinner with Luca host.
Lucas Sin
Lucas Sin is a chef and restaurateur who cofounded Junzi Kitchen and Nice Day Chinese. A Yale graduate, he has received multiple accolades, including a James Beard Media Award.
Lucio Tan
Lucio Tan (陈永栽, Chen Yongzai), born in Fujian, is a Chinese-Filipino billionaire who founded Fortune Tobacco in 1966, acquired Philippine Airlines, and survived two decades of Marcos-era sequestration litigation.
Luckin Coffee (瑞幸咖啡)
Luckin Coffee (瑞幸咖啡) is a Chinese coffee chain headquartered in Xiamen, founded in 2017, which survived a 2020 accounting fraud to become China's largest coffee chain.
Lucky Charms
Lucky Charms is an American sweetened breakfast cereal made by General Mills since 1964, pairing frosted whole-grain oat pieces with small colored marshmallows called marbits.
Lūʻau (food)
Lūʻau is the Hawaiian dish of young taro leaves cooked in coconut cream, the namesake of the Hawaiian feast; related to laulau, it requires long cooking to neutralize calcium oxalate in raw taro leaves.