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Mediterranean cuisine
Mediterranean cuisine, the cooking of countries around the Mediterranean Sea (Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt), shares olive oil, wheat, grapes, fresh seasonal ingredients, and communal meals; UNESCO-listed since 2010.
Mel and Sue
Mel and Sue are a British comedy double act of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, the original hosts of The Great British Bake Off from 2010 to 2016.
Melissa Leong
Melissa Leong is an Australian food writer and TV host, MasterChef Australia's first female and first Asian Australian judge (2020-2023, with Zonfrillo and Allen), later co-judge of Dessert Masters with Amaury Guichon; distinct from the Toronto-based finance author of the same name.
Mello Yello
Mello Yello is a citrus-flavored, caffeinated soft drink introduced by The Coca-Cola Company in 1979 to compete with Mountain Dew; sold mainly in the US Midwest and Southeast in Original and Zero Sugar versions, with about 51 mg caffeine per 12 fl oz can.
Menu
Menu (bill of fare, carte): the listed offering of dishes and drinks with prices at a food-service establishment. Origins in Song-dynasty China and 1760s Paris; covers design history, menu engineering, digital formats, and allergen-labeling requirements.
Menudo (soup)
Menudo (also pancita, mondongo) is a Mexican soup of slow-cooked beef stomach in dried-chile broth, often with hominy; called menudo in the north, pancita in the center, mondongo in the south, with a hangover-cure reputation and probable Spanish callos origin.
Meringue
Meringue: whipped egg whites and sugar foam used in pavlova, lemon meringue pie, and baked Alaska; three types (French, Swiss, Italian) differing in heat application; name first printed in Massialot 1691, etymology unknown.
Merlot
Merlot, black Vitis vinifera wine grape from southwest France; Cabernet Franc × Magdeleine Noire des Charentes; majority grape of Bordeaux (60% of appellation area), early ripening, base of Pomerol's Pétrus.
Mesquite wood extract
Mesquite wood extract (CAS 93165-66-3, FEMA 3942) is an alcoholic Prosopis wood-chip extract used as a smoky, woody flavoring agent, GRAS via GRN 18 for distilled spirits.
Metro AG
Metro AG, German food wholesaler (METRO/MAKRO cash-and-carry) founded 1964 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, serving HoReCa and Traders in over 30 countries; €32.4 billion sales in FY2024/25, delisted 2026 after Kretinsky takeover.
Metro Inc.
Metro Inc., also known as Métro-Richelieu, is a Canadian food and pharmacy retailer headquartered in Montreal and one of Canada's three largest grocery chains, alongside Loblaw and Sobeys.
Mett
Mett, also called Hackepeter or Schweinemett, is a German specialty of seasoned raw minced pork eaten raw on bread rolls (Mettbrötchen) with raw onion, sold same-day under strict German rules, with the Mettigel hedgehog as its party form.
Meunière sauce
Meunière sauce (beurre meunière), French brown butter sauce with lemon juice and parsley, spooned over flour-dusted fish pan-fried in butter; sole meunière is the classic version, with a richer Creole variant in New Orleans.
Mexia Supermarket
Mexia Supermarket was a 36,000-square-foot independent grocer at 3900 Hemphill Street, Fort Worth, Texas (not Mexia, Texas), opened late 1998 by Advance Investment Corp., bankrupt in 1999, abandoned with rotting food, cleaned up by the city, later a Dollar General.
Mexican Coke
Mexican Coke is Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico with cane sugar and glass bottles, imported to the US since 2005 as an alternative to US Coke's high-fructose corn syrup, with mixed blind taste-test results.
Mexican cuisine
Mexican cuisine: the maize-based culinary tradition of Mexico, defined by corn, beans, chilies, and squash, nixtamalization, colonial Spanish mestizaje, UNESCO 2010 heritage status, and a modern Michelin-starred, sustainability-focused restaurant scene.
Mezcal
Mezcal (Nahuatl mexcalli) is a Mexican distilled agave spirit, 100% agave under NOM-070-SCFI-2016, with a Denomination of Origin since 1994, produced mainly in Oaxaca, distinguished from tequila by agave variety and smoky pit-cooking.
Mezcal worm
The mezcal worm (gusano de maguey) is the larva of the agave redworm moth Comadia redtenbacheri placed in some mezcal bottles since the 1940s as a marketing addition; it is never used in tequila.
Meze
Meze (mezze, maza; Turkish meze, Greek mezedes) is the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern tradition of small shared dishes served in waves with drinks such as rakı, ouzo, or arak, distinct from tapas and antipasto in its hospitality etiquette and open-ended, conversation-paced meal structure.
Michael Caines
Michael Caines (born 1969, Exeter) is a British Michelin-starred chef and hotelier, known for Gidleigh Park's two stars, Lympstone Manor, and Michael Caines at The Stafford in London.
Michael Chow (restaurateur)
Michael Chow (周英華), born Zhou Yinghua in 1939 in Shanghai, son of Peking opera master Zhou Xinfang, is the British-Chinese restaurateur who founded the MR CHOW restaurants, starting in London in 1968, and later returned to painting.
Michael Jackson (beer writer)
Michael Jackson, known as the Beer Hunter, was a British journalist whose books on beer and whisky sold over three million copies and shaped craft brewing.
Michael O'Hare (chef)
Michael O'Hare, Leeds chef from Redcar whose The Man Behind The Curtain won a Michelin star in 2015; after Psycho Sandbar closed and the company entered insolvency, he opened In Lamentation in Boston Spa in 2026.
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, American author and UC Berkeley journalism professor, wrote The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, How to Change Your Mind, and the 2026 consciousness book A World Appears.
Michael Solomonov (מיכאל סולומונוב)
Michael Solomonov (מיכאל סולומונוב, born 1978) is an Israeli-born American chef and restaurateur in Philadelphia; co-owner with Steven Cook of CookNSolo and Zahav, a James Beard Outstanding Restaurant winner, and a leading popularizer of modern Israeli cuisine in the United States.
Michael Symon
Michael Symon (born 1969, Cleveland) is an American chef and restaurateur behind Lola and Mabel's BBQ, a Food Network Iron Chef, former co-host of ABC's The Chew, and 2009 James Beard Best Chef: Great Lakes winner.
Michael Voltaggio
Michael Voltaggio, also known with brother Bryan as the Voltaggio brothers, is an American chef from Frederick, Maryland who won Top Chef Season 6, earned a Michelin star at Dry Creek Kitchen, opened Ink in Los Angeles, and co-owns Voltaggio Brothers Steak House.
Michel Lotito
Michel Lotito, known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mr Eat All"), was a French entertainer from Grenoble who ate metal and glass, including a whole Cessna 150 airplane between 1978 and 1980.
Michel Roux
Michel Roux (1941–2020), French chef and restaurateur, brother of Albert Roux; co-founded Le Gavroche (1967) and founded the Waterside Inn, Bray (1972), which holds three Michelin stars since 1985.
Michelada
Michelada, also called chelada or cerveza preparada, is a Mexican beer drink of beer, lime, and salt in a frosted glass, often with hot sauce, Worcestershire, Maggi, or Clamato; origin attributed variously to Michel Ésper in 1970s San Luis Potosí or a 1940s popularization.