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Auguste Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935) was a French chef who modernized haute cuisine through Le Guide Culinaire (1903) and the kitchen brigade system, working with César Ritz at the Savoy and Carlton.
Aunt Jemima
Aunt Jemima was an American pancake-mix and syrup brand created in 1889 by the Pearl Milling Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, sold by Quaker Oats and PepsiCo, and rebranded Pearl Milling Company in 2021 after criticism of its minstrel-derived mammy imagery.
Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's is an American soft pretzel franchise founded in 1988 by Anne Beiler at a Downingtown, Pennsylvania farmers' market, franchised from 1989, now owned by GoTo Foods with 1,200+ locations in 20+ countries.
Australian Chinese cuisine
Australian Chinese cuisine is the distinct tradition of Chinese food developed in Australia since 1850s goldfields cookshops, known for dim sims, long soup, and short soup.
Australian cuisine
Australian cuisine: the fusion food culture of Australia, blending native bush ingredients (lemon myrtle, wattleseed, macadamia) with British, European, and Asian influences; known for meat pies (270 million a year), lamingtons, barbecues, and café coffee culture, without a single unified national cuisine.
Australian wine
Australian wine is produced across 65 regions by some 2,156 wineries, ranking Australia fifth in global production, led by Shiraz and Chardonnay and exported chiefly to China.
Austrian cuisine
Austrian cuisine (Wiener Küche): Habsburg-era national cooking blending Bohemian, Hungarian, Italian and Alpine traditions; schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Mehlspeisen like Sachertorte, coffee houses, Heuriger, and distinct regional dishes across nine federal states.
Aviation American Gin
Aviation American Gin, also known as Aviation Gin, is an American gin launched in 2006 in Portland, Oregon, and co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds from 2018.
Avocado toast
Avocado toast, also known as smashed avocado, is a dish of crushed avocado on toasted bread, popularized by Australian café culture and Bill Granger around 1993.
Ayesha Curry
Ayesha Curry (born 1989, Toronto) is a Canadian-American TV personality, cookbook author, and entrepreneur, wife of Stephen Curry. Known for Food Network's Ayesha's Home Kitchen, The Seasoned Life, International Smoke with Michael Mina, and the Sweet July brand.
Ayesha Nurdjaja
Ayesha Nurdjaja is a Brooklyn-born chef of Italian-Indonesian heritage, executive chef and partner of NYC Eastern Mediterranean restaurants Shuka and Shukette, a James Beard finalist, Food Network's Bobby's Triple Threat Titan, and author of Mediterranean All the Way.
Ayran
Ayran, a cold salted yogurt drink of Turkish origin made from yogurt, water, and salt; also called doogh, tahn, dhallë, or ariani; Turkey's national non-alcoholic beverage with Codex and Turkish Food Codex standards.
B-52 (cocktail)
B-52 (cocktail): layered shot of equal parts coffee liqueur, Irish cream, and Grand Marnier, credited to Peter Fich, Banff Springs Hotel, 1977; named for the band The B-52s; IBA New Era drink.
Baba ghanoush
Baba ghanoush (بابا غنوج, baba ganoush, baba ghanouj) is a Levantine smoky eggplant dip of mashed charred eggplant with olive oil, lemon, and garlic, served in mezze; closely related to, and often conflated with, mutabbal.
Babka
Babka, also called krantz cake (עוגת קראנץ), is a sweet Eastern European Jewish yeast bread twisted with chocolate, cinnamon, or poppy seed filling; Polish in origin, chocolate-filled since New York, revived by 2010s bakeries.
Baby Guinness
Baby Guinness: an Irish layered shot of coffee liqueur (Kahlúa or Tia Maria) topped with a floated layer of Irish cream (Baileys), mimicking a miniature pint of Guinness stout; contains no beer, roughly 19-23% ABV, with disputed 1980s Dublin and 1907 origin stories.
Baby Ruth
Baby Ruth: American candy bar of peanuts, caramel, and nougat, created by Curtiss Candy Company, Chicago, circa 1920-1921 from the Kandy Kake bar; officially named for Ruth Cleveland but widely linked to Babe Ruth, who lost a 1931 trademark case; now Ferrero-owned.
Babybel
Babybel is a Bel Group brand of individual portion snack cheese in red wax, created 1931; Mini Babybel, an edam-style four-ingredient cheese, launched mid-1970s and sells over 2 billion portions yearly in 50 countries.
Babycham
Babycham: British sparkling perry (pear cider), 6% ABV, created 1953 by Francis Showering in Shepton Mallet; first alcohol brand advertised on British TV; mascot is a fawn; bought back by the Showering family in 2021.
Bacalao al pil pil
Bacalao al pil pil (bakailaoa pil-pilean) is a Basque salt-cod dish: desalted cod with skin gently cooked in olive oil with garlic and chili, swirled so gelatin emulsifies the sauce, named for the bubbling 'pil pil' sound.
Bacardi
Bacardi: spirits company founded 1862 in Santiago de Cuba by Facundo Bacardí Massó, maker of BACARDÍ rum and owner of Bacardi Limited brands like PATRÓN, GREY GOOSE, and DEWAR'S.
Bacon
Bacon (培根) is cured, usually smoked pork, defined in the US as the cured belly of a swine carcass. Covers curing methods, nitrite limits, Chinese and regional variants, nutrition, and WHO Group 1 carcinogen classification.
Bagel
Bagel (Yiddish beygel, Polish bajgiel): ring-shaped bread from Jewish communities in Poland, boiled before baking for a chewy crust; first documented in Kraków in 1610, brought to New York and Montreal by Jewish immigrants, and mass-marketed by Lender's frozen bagels from 1962.
Bagna càuda
Bagna càuda (bagna caoda), the hot garlic-anchovy-olive oil dipping sauce of Piedmont, served warm in a terracotta fujot with cardoons; canonical 2005 recipe, salt-road history, Bagna Cauda Day festival.
Baguette
Baguette: long, slender French bread loaf of flour, water, salt and leaven or yeast; regulated by the 1993 French bread decree as baguette de tradition française and inscribed by UNESCO in 2022 as intangible cultural heritage.
Bahamian cuisine
Bahamian cuisine is the cooking tradition of The Bahamas, centered on queen conch and seafood, with dishes like conch salad, cracked conch, peas and rice, and chicken souse.
Baharat (بهارات)
Baharat (بهارات), the Arabic word for spices, is a warm ground blend central to Middle Eastern cooking, sold in the Levant as sabaa baharat, seven spices, and used on kofta, kebabs, stews, and rice.
Baijiu (白酒)
Baijiu (白酒) is China's traditional distilled grain spirit, made by solid-state fermentation with qu starter cultures and classified into aroma types (strong, sauce, light, rice), with strong-aroma baijiu holding about 70% of production.
Baileys Irish Cream
Baileys Irish Cream: Irish cream liqueur launched 1974 by Gilbeys of Ireland, blending Irish whiskey, dairy cream, and chocolate-vanilla flavors at 17% ABV; owned by Diageo, over 100 million bottles produced yearly in Ireland, sold in 150+ countries.
Bak kut teh
Bak kut teh (肉骨茶, bah-kut-tê, rou gu cha), literally 'meat bone tea', is a Malaysian-Singaporean pork-rib herbal soup with no tea in it; styles include clear peppery Teochew and dark soy Hokkien/Klang versions, with a disputed origin.