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Michelin Guide
The Michelin Guide (Guide Michelin) is Michelin's annual restaurant and hotel guide, launched free in 1900 to promote motoring; its anonymous inspectors award one to three stars, Bib Gourmands, Keys, and other distinctions worldwide.
Mickey Finn (drugs)
Mickey Finn, or slipping someone a mickey, is slang for a drink secretly spiked with an incapacitating drug, classically chloral hydrate. Named for Chicago bartender Michael Finn, whose Lone Star Saloon closed in 1903 amid drugging-and-robbery allegations.
Microwave oven
A microwave oven is a kitchen appliance that cooks food by exciting water molecules with microwaves, invented by Percy Spencer at Raytheon in 1945 and now in over 96% of US households.
Middle Eastern cuisine
Middle Eastern cuisine is a collective label for foodways across the Levant, Anatolia, and the Arabian Peninsula. It includes diverse traditions like Levantine, Persian, and Turkish cooking.
Mie goreng
Mie goreng (mi goreng, mee goreng, bakmi goreng) is Indonesia's stir-fried noodle dish: wheat-egg noodles wok-fried with kecap manis, garlic, shallots, vegetables, egg, and protein, with Chinese roots, Java/Sumatra/Sulawesi variants, and a famous instant version.
Migas
Migas ("crumbs") is an Iberian dish of soaked stale bread fried in olive oil or lard with garlic, paprika, and pork; in Mexico and Texas the name covers scrambled eggs with fried corn tortillas, distinct from chilaquiles.
Migros
Migros is Switzerland's largest retail cooperative group, founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Duttweiler with mobile grocery vans and converted to a customer-owned cooperative in 1941; known for alcohol-free stores, the Culture Percentage, and 2025 group sales of CHF 31.9 billion.
Mike and Ike
Mike and Ike: chewy fruit candy brand launched 1940 by Just Born of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Original Fruits has five FRUCHEWY flavors; famous for its 2012 mascot breakup campaign and theater-box sales leadership.
Mike's Hot Honey
Mike's Hot Honey is an American chili-infused honey brand founded in 2010 by Mike Kurtz at Paulie Gee's pizzeria in Brooklyn; made from honey, chili peppers, and vinegar, it leads the US hot honey category with retail, foodservice, and co-branded products.
Milanesa
Milanesa is a breaded, fried cutlet of meat named after Milan, brought to Argentina and Uruguay by Italian immigrants and now an everyday staple there.
Mild ale
Mild ale, a British ale style (dark mild, pale mild), is low in hop bitterness, low in carbonation, and 2.8-4.5% ABV per BJCP; once Britain's dominant beer, it declined from 1960 and survives through CAMRA's Mild Month.
Milk bag
Milk bag, or bagged milk: a flexible polyethylene pillow pouch for pasteurized milk, standard in Canada as three 1.33 L pouches totalling 4 L. Introduced by DuPont of Canada in 1967, metrication spread it; lighter than jugs or cartons but often non-recyclable.
Milk chocolate
Milk chocolate: solid eating chocolate made with chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, and milk solids; invented by Daniel Peter in Vevey in 1875 using Nestlé condensed milk, perfected by Lindt's 1879 conching, defined by US and EU composition standards.
Milk mineral concentrate
Milk mineral concentrate is a dried dairy ingredient fractionated from whey or milk, rich in calcium (22% minimum) and phosphorus, subject of GRAS Notice GRN 376 by Armor Proteines and covered by the ADPI Milk Minerals Standard.
Milk protein hydrolysate
Milk protein hydrolysate: casein or whey protein broken into peptides by enzymatic hydrolysis; used in hypoallergenic infant formula, clinical nutrition, and functional foods; typically up to about 25% DH.
Milk tea
Milk tea (奶茶) is tea combined with milk, spanning Mongolian salted tea, Indian chai, Hong Kong silk-stocking milk tea, and Taiwanese bubble tea; Hong Kong's version is a listed intangible cultural heritage.
Milka
Milka is a milk chocolate brand registered by Suchard on 19 March 1901, named from Milch (milk) and Kakao (cocoa), sold in lilac packaging with the Lila cow mascot, now owned by Mondelēz International and sold in over 15 countries.
Milkshake
Milkshake: a cold, frothy blended beverage of milk, flavoring, and usually ice cream, originating as an American soda fountain drink in the 1880s. Regional names include frappe, cabinet, frosted, and thick shake; the ice-cream version became standard after refrigeration.
Milky Way (chocolate bar)
Milky Way (US chocolate bar), also known as the Mars bar in Europe, is a Mars, Incorporated candy bar of nougat, caramel, and milk chocolate, introduced by Frank Mars in 1923 and named after a malted milk drink, not the galaxy.
Mille-feuille
Mille-feuille (millefeuille), the French "thousand leaves" pastry also called Napoleon or vanilla slice: layered puff pastry and pastry cream with fondant glaze; six turns give 729 layers; first sold as such in Paris in 1867.
Miller Brewing Company
Miller Brewing Company, founded in Milwaukee in 1855 by Frederick Miller from the Plank Road Brewery, became the second largest US brewer under Philip Morris with Miller Lite and Miller Genuine Draft, and its US brands now sit in the MillerCoors joint venture under Molson Coors Beverage Company.
Miller Lite
Miller Lite, also known as Miller Light, is an American light lager brewed by Miller Brewing Company. Launched in 1975, it is known for its 96 calories and 4.2% ABV.
MillerCoors
MillerCoors: U.S. and Puerto Rico beer joint venture of Molson Coors and SABMiller, formed 2007, launched 2008, second-largest U.S. brewer, fully acquired by Molson Coors in 2016.
Milo (drink)
Milo is Nestlé's chocolate-malt powdered drink, invented in Australia in 1934 by chemist Thomas Mayne and launched at the Sydney Royal Easter Show; sold in over 40 countries, strongest in Malaysia and Singapore, home of the Milo Dinosaur.
Milton S. Hershey
Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945), American confectioner and philanthropist, founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, Hershey Chocolate Company, and the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and endowed the Milton Hershey School with his entire fortune.
Mimolette
Mimolette (Boule de Lille, Vieux Hollande) is a French uncooked pressed cow's milk cheese from Flanders, created in the 17th century under Colbert as an Edam substitute, colored orange with annatto, and ripened with cheese mites for 3 to 24 months.
Mimosa (cocktail)
Mimosa cocktail: equal parts chilled sparkling wine and orange juice, served in a flute; attributed to Frank Meier at the Ritz Paris around 1925, a lighter cousin of the 1921 London Buck's Fizz and a brunch staple.
Mince pie
Mince pie, also mincemeat pie, is a small British Christmas pastry filled with sweet spiced dried fruit, suet and brandy. Medieval meat-filled origins, Cromwell ban myth, 370 million sold yearly in the UK.
Mincemeat
Mincemeat, also called fruit mince, is a spiced preserve of dried fruit, sugar, suet or butter, citrus peel, and spirits used in Christmas mince pies; despite the name it usually contains no meat, a relic of its medieval preserved-meat origins.
Mineko Iwasaki (岩崎峰子)
Mineko Iwasaki (岩崎峰子), born 1949, is a Japanese author and former geiko of Kyoto's Gion district, the principal source for Golden's 1997 novel Memoirs of a Geisha.