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LuLu Group International
LuLu Group International (LuLu Group, Lulu International) is an Abu Dhabi-headquartered multinational retail conglomerate founded by M.A. Yusuff Ali, operating LuLu Hypermarkets, malls, hotels, and exchange services across the GCC, India, and beyond, with Lulu Retail listed on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange since 2024.
Lumpia
Lumpia (Hokkien loon pia) is a Southeast Asian family of fresh and fried spring rolls, especially Filipino lumpiang shanghai and sariwa and Indonesian lumpia semarang, derived from Fujianese spring-pancake traditions.
Lunch
Lunch is the midday meal, historically the day's main meal until industrialization made it quick and separate; shaped US school lunch policy from 1894 penny lunches and the 1946 National School Lunch Act to workplace lunch-skipping trends.
Lunch meat
Lunch meat, also called cold cuts, luncheon meats, or deli meats, is precooked or cured sliced meat for sandwiches. Covers nitrite curing, USDA storage times, WHO Group 1 cancer classification, and health evidence.
Lungo
Lungo (caffè lungo, café allongé): a long espresso, same 7–9 g dose and 9 bar pressure as a standard shot but roughly double the water, yielding 50–60 mL, more bitter, slightly more caffeine; distinct from an Americano.
Lutefisk
Lutefisk (Swedish lutfisk, Finnish lipeäkala) is a Nordic Christmas dish of air-dried cod soaked in lye and rehydrated, giving mild flavor and gelatinous texture; first described by Olaus Magnus in 1555 and popular in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Lynsi Snyder
Lynsi Snyder (Lynsi Lavelle Snyder-Ellingson), granddaughter of In-N-Out founders Harry and Esther Snyder, is owner and president of the chain since 2010, full owner since 2017, worth about $7.3 billion in 2025.
M. A. Yusuff Ali
M. A. Yusuff Ali (Yusuff Ali Musaliam Veettil Abdul Kader), born 1955 in Nattika, Kerala, is the Indian-born chairman and managing director of LuLu Group International and chairman of Lulu Retail, the largest pan-GCC retailer, which listed on the Abu Dhabi exchange in 2024.
M&M's
M&M's, also styled M&Ms, are candy-shell-coated chocolate buttons made by Mars, introduced in 1941 in Newark, New Jersey by Forrest Mars Sr. and Bruce Murrie, first sold to the U.S. military, publicly launched in 1945, and famous for the slogan "melts in your mouth, not in your hands."
Mac Tonight
Mac Tonight is a fictional McDonald's advertising character introduced in 1986 to promote dinnertime business, a lounge singer with a crescent moon head, tuxedo, and piano.
Macaron
Macaron: French almond, egg-white, and sugar confection (macaron de Nancy, Parisian sandwich macaron); distinct from the coconut macaroon; Rabelais 1552, Nancy 1793, Ladurée filling.
Macaroni and cheese
Macaroni and cheese, a pasta-and-cheese dish dating to medieval Italian and English cookery, was popularized in America by Thomas Jefferson and James Hemings and industrialized by Kraft's 1937 boxed dinner.
Macaroon
Macaroon: a dense drop cookie of whipped egg whites, sugar, and shredded coconut or ground almonds; distinct from the French macaron; flourless, kosher for Passover, from Italian maccarone.
Maceration (wine)
Maceration (wine), or skin contact, is the soaking of grape skins, seeds, and stems in juice or wine to extract color, tannins, and aroma; central to red wine, key to rosé and orange wine, with variants like cold soak and carbonic maceration.
Madeira wine
Madeira wine (vinho da Madeira) is a Portuguese fortified wine, 17-22% vol., from Madeira island, aged with heat (estufagem or canteiro), in dry Sercial to sweet Malvasia styles, famously long-lived.
Madeleine (cake)
Madeleine (cake): small French sponge cake from Commercy, Lorraine, baked in a scallop-shell mold with a signature hump; famed for Proust's In Search of Lost Time episode and the Madeleine Paulmier origin legend.
Madhampatty Rangaraj
Madhampatty Rangaraj, also known as Rangaraj Thangavelu, is a caterer and actor. He grew his business to serve 600 weddings annually and debuted in Mehandi Circus in 2019.
Madhur Jaffrey (मधुर जाफ़री)
Madhur Jaffrey (मधुर जाफ़री), born 1933, is an Indian-born actress and cookbook author in New York whose 1973 An Invitation to Indian Cooking and 1982 BBC series brought regional Indian cooking to British and American home cooks; she has written over 30 cookbooks and won seven James Beard Awards.
Maggi
Maggi, Swiss food brand founded by Julius Maggi in 1884 (seasoning, soups, bouillon cubes, 2-Minute Noodles), owned by Nestlé since the 1947 Alimentana merger; dominant instant-noodle brand in India.
Maghrebi mint tea
Maghrebi mint tea (atay, Moroccan mint tea) is a sweet green tea of gunpowder tea, fresh spearmint (nana), and sugar, poured from height; a hospitality ritual across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia since the 18th century.
Magnum (ice cream)
Magnum is a premium chocolate-coated ice cream bar launched by Unilever's Wall's brand in 1989, known for its cracking shell and the 'Nothing Cracks Like Magnum' campaign; it is now a flagship brand of The Magnum Ice Cream Company, listed in December 2025.
Maharashtrian cuisine
Maharashtrian (Marathi) cuisine, the regional food of Maharashtra, India: rice and jowar/bajra staples, Malwani, Kolhapuri, Saoji, and Khandeshi regional styles, thali structure, and spice blends like goda masala.
Mai Tai
Mai Tai: classic tiki rum sour created by Trader Vic in Oakland in 1944 with lime, orange curaçao, orgeat, and aged rum; named from Tahitian maita'i (good), with a rival Donn Beach claim and an IBA standard spec.
Maid café
Maid café (メイドカフェ, meido kissa): Japanese themed café from Akihabara where costumed maids greet customers as master, serve food with performances, hourly cover fees, cheki photos; spread worldwide.
Maido (restaurant)
Maido is a Nikkei restaurant in Miraflores, Lima, Peru, opened in October 2009 by chef Mitsuharu "Micha" Tsumura and named The World's Best Restaurant 2025.
Maiko
Maiko are apprentice geiko, trainee female entertainers of Kyoto's five hanamachi (the Gokagai) who perform dance and banquet arts before the erikae transition to geiko, wearing susohiki kimono, darari obi, and okobo sandals.
Maillard reaction
Maillard reaction: non-enzymatic browning of amino compounds with reducing sugars, discovered by Louis-Camille Maillard in 1912; three stages ending in melanoidins; gives cooked food its color, aroma, and flavor but also forms acrylamide and AGEs.
Maître d'hôtel
Maître d'hôtel (maître d', headwaiter): the dining-room supervisor in restaurants and hotels who greets and seats guests, directs waiters, chefs de rang, and sommeliers, and answers for service quality. French title from the 1530s; graded forms premier maître d'hôtel and maître d'hôtel de carré.
Major appliance
Major appliance, also called white goods: large stationary household equipment such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, ranges, and dishwashers, distinguished from small appliances, with prewar basic designs, energy standards since 1975, and rising smart-appliance reliability issues.
Makro
Makro is a cash-and-carry wholesale brand founded in Amsterdam in 1968 by SHV with METRO, serving HoReCa and traders; now run regionally by Metro (Europe), Tesco's Booker (UK), Massmart/Walmart (South Africa), and CP Axtra (Thailand, Philippines).