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Mala xiang guo (麻辣香锅)
Mala xiang guo (麻辣香锅), also called spicy dry pot, is a Chongqing-Sichuan stir-fry where diners pick raw meats, seafood, and vegetables that are wok-fried in numbing Sichuan peppercorn and chili oil, with no broth, unlike mala hot pot.
Malay cuisine
Malay cuisine (Masakan Melayu) is the traditional halal cooking of ethnic Malays across Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, southern Thailand, and Indonesia's Sumatra and Kalimantan, built on rice, coconut, rempah spice paste, and 13th-century trade-influenced dishes like nasi lemak, rendang, and laksa.
Malaysian cuisine
Malaysian cuisine, also called Malaysian cooking or masakan Malaysia, is the rice- and coconut-milk-based, halal-influenced fusion of Malay, Chinese, Indian, Arab, and Persian food traditions, known for nasi lemak, rendang, laksa, satay, and Nyonya dishes.
Malbec
Malbec (Côt, Auxerrois) is a black wine grape from South-West France, the grape of Cahors' "black wine" and, since the 19th century, Argentina's flagship variety, with 46,890 Argentine hectares and most world plantings.
Malibu (rum)
Malibu is a coconut-flavored, rum-based liqueur at 21% ABV, created in the late 1970s from a South African drink and launched in the UK in 1980, owned by Pernod Ricard.
Malolactic fermentation
Malolactic fermentation (MLF, malolactic conversion) is a bacterial winemaking process in which Oenococcus oeni converts L-malic acid to softer lactic acid and CO2, raising pH, adding diacetyl, and improving stability.
Malt liquor
Malt liquor: a stronger-than-lager North American beer style (5.5–8% ABV) brewed with corn, rice, or sugar adjuncts and sold in large 40 oz containers; a marketing term, legally classified as beer, born in the late 1930s and known for Colt 45 and St. Ides.
Malted milk
Malted milk is a dried whole-milk powder blended with malted barley extract and wheat flour, invented in 1873 by the Horlick brothers, patented 1883, first sold as Diastoid, later the soda-fountain malt and Horlicks bedtime drink.
Maltese cuisine
Maltese cuisine, the cooking of Malta and Gozo, is a Mediterranean tradition shaped by Sicilian, Arab, Knights-era French, and British influences; known for stuffat tal-fenek rabbit stew, pastizzi, ftira, and a growing MICHELIN-starred restaurant scene.
Maltesers
Maltesers are Mars's British chocolate-malt balls: honeycomb centres in milk chocolate, created by Forrest Mars Sr. in 1936, first sold 1937 as "energy balls," slogan "the lighter way to enjoy chocolate."
Maltodextrin
Maltodextrin: nonsweet D-glucose polymer mixture from partial starch hydrolysis, dextrose equivalent below 20, 4 kcal/g, digested as fast as glucose (GI about 105–110), used as a food ingredient; distinct from resistant (fiber) maltodextrin.
Malvasia
Malvasia (Malvoisie, Malvazija): not a single grape but a large Mediterranean family of mostly white Vitis vinifera varieties named after Monemvasia, making dry, sparkling, and sweet wines across Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal.
Mama Juana
Mama Juana (mamajuana, damajuana) is a Dominican liqueur of rum, red wine, honey, and tree bark and herbs, about 30% ABV, rooted in a Taíno herbal tea; sold ready-to-drink or as refillable DIY kits.
Mamak stall
Mamak stall (kedai mamak): an Indian Muslim-run Malaysian eatery serving roti canai, teh tarik, nasi kandar and mee goreng, typically open late or 24 hours; a national social institution for interethnic gathering, distinct from the Chinese kopitiam.
Man v. Food
Man v. Food is an American food reality series, premiered December 3, 2008 on Travel Channel with Adam Richman, revived 2017 with Casey Webb on Cooking Channel, last episode November 8, 2022, now revived as Men v. Food with Fitzpatrick and Wilfork.
Manakish (مناقيش)
Manakish (مناقيش), also called Manaeesh or Man'oushe, is a Levantine flatbread topped with za'atar, cheese, or spiced meat, baked at high heat, and sold hot at dawn from neighborhood bakeries across Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.
Manchego
Manchego (Queso Manchego) is Spain's PDO-protected hard sheep cheese, made only from Manchega ewe milk in Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, and Toledo, aged at least 30-60 days, distinct from imitators by its regulation.
Maneet Chauhan
Maneet Chauhan, Indian American chef and restaurateur in Nashville, judge on Chopped since 2010 and two-time Tournament of Champions winner; founder of Morph Hospitality Group and author of Chaat.
Manhattan (cocktail)
The Manhattan is a classic American cocktail of whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters, stirred and served with a cherry, created around the 1880s in New York.
Manischewitz
Manischewitz, American kosher food brand founded 1888 in Cincinnati by Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz; food side owned by Kayco since 2019, wine brand licensed separately and owned by Gallo since 2021.
Manjit Minhas
Manjit Minhas is a Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded Minhas Breweries, Distillery and Winery in 1999 and has been an investor on CBC's Dragons' Den since 2015.
Mansaf (منسف)
Mansaf (منسف), the Jordanian national festive dish: lamb or goat boiled in jameed dried-yogurt sauce over rice and shrak bread on a shared seder platter, eaten by hand. UNESCO-inscribed in 2022; served at weddings, funerals, Fridays, Eid al-Adha.
Manti (food)
Manti (mantı, mantu, mantou) is a family of filled wheat dumplings from Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Afghanistan: tiny boiled Turkish mantı with yogurt and browned butter, large steamed Uzbek manti, Afghan steamed mantu with split-pea sauce, and baked Armenian sini mantı.
Mantou (馒头)
Mantou (馒头) is Chinese steamed bread, a fermented wheat staple of northern China, earliest attested in Western Jin texts; the Zhuge Liang origin legend is a later Song-era attribution, and related buns spread to Korea, Japan and Central Asia.
Manu Feildel
Manu Feildel, French-born chef from Nantes, Brittany, is co-host and judge of Australia's My Kitchen Rules since 2010. Trained in London (Cafe Royal, Livebait), he ran Bilsons (3 hats) and L'etoile in Sydney, won Dancing with the Stars 2011, and launched The Sauce By Manu.
Mao tofu (毛豆腐)
Mao tofu (毛豆腐), also called Huizhou or Huangshan hairy tofu, mei doufu, is a fermented tofu from Huangshan, Anhui, coated in white Mucor mycelium, coagulated with sour water, pan-fried, and listed as Anhui provincial intangible heritage in 2022.
Maotai (茅台)
Maotai (茅台酒, Moutai) is China's sauce-aroma baijiu from Maotai town on the Chishui River, Guizhou, made from sorghum, wheat, and water via a one-year, nine-steaming process and five-year aging; produced by Kweichow Moutai (600519).
Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐)
Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, mabo dofu in Japan) is a Sichuan dish of soft tofu in a mala doubanjiang and Sichuan peppercorn sauce with minced meat, created in Chengdu around 1862 by Chen Mapo and adapted into milder Japanese versions from 1958.
Maqhan (café)
مقهئ (مقهى, maqhan) is the Arabic word for a café or coffeehouse. In older Iraqi usage the word casino meant a café or social venue, notably on Baghdad's Abu Nuwas Street, not a gambling hall.
Maraschino
Maraschino is a colourless Dalmatian cherry liqueur made from marasca cherries and their pits, defined by EU law with minimum 250 g/L sugar, 24–32% ABV, central to the Aviation, Last Word, and Martinez cocktails.