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Ragout
Ragout (French ragoût, from ragoûter "revive the taste") is a slow-cooked stew of meat, poultry, or game in a seasoned sauce; distinct from Italian ragù pasta sauce and used in Dutch croquettes.
Ragù
Ragù, from French ragoût, is the Italian family of slow-cooked meat sauces for pasta; the two main versions are minced-meat, lightly tomatoed ragù alla bolognese, codified in 1982 and updated in 2023, and whole-cut, tomato-rich ragù napoletano.
Raindrop cake
Raindrop cake, Japanese mizu shingen mochi (水信玄餅), a translucent water-and-agar jelly dessert created by Kinseiken in Yamanashi in 2013, made famous by Darren Wong at New York's Smorgasburg in 2016.
Rainforest Cafe
Rainforest Cafe is a jungle-themed family restaurant chain with animatronic animals, waterfalls, and simulated thunderstorms, founded by Steven Schussler and opened first at the Mall of America in 1994.
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is an American fast-food chain founded by Todd Graves in 1996 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, known for its limited chicken-finger menu.
Raita
Raita (रायता, Hindi rāytā) is a cold South Asian yogurt condiment mixed with cucumber, boondi, onion, mint, or fruit, served with biryani and spicy curries to cool chili heat; distinct from tzatziki, cacık, and mast-o-khiar.
Rajasthani cuisine
Rajasthani cuisine is the desert cooking tradition of Rajasthan, India, shaped by water scarcity and Rajput and Marwari cultures; signature dishes include dal bati churma, laal maas, safed maas, gatte, ker sangri, and ghevar.
Rajma (राजमा)
Rajma (राजमा) is the Hindi name for kidney beans and for the thick bean curry that is a staple comfort food of North India, served over rice as rajma chawal.
Rakia
Rakia (rakija, ракија) is the Balkans' collective fruit brandy, double-distilled at 40-50% ABV from grapes, plums or other fruit, distinct from anise-flavored Turkish rakı, with 12 Bulgarian EU-protected varieties.
Rakı
Rakı: Türkiye's national aniseed spirit, twice-distilled from grape suma with Pimpinella anisum in copper stills of 5,000 L or less, at least 40% ABV, geographically indicated since 2009, distinct from ouzo, arak, and pastis.
Ralphs
Ralphs (Ralphs Grocery Company) is an American supermarket chain founded in Los Angeles in 1873, now a Kroger division running about 185 Southern California stores.
Ramen (ラーメン)
Ramen (ラーメン) is a Japanese wheat-noodle soup of Chinese origin with tare, broth, noodles, and toppings; styles include shoyu, miso, shio, and tonkotsu. Key facts: first instant ramen (Nissin, 1958), record 124.21 billion instant servings in 2025, Japan 885.5 billion yen shop market.
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: British Channel 4 reality series (2004-2007, five series) in which chef Gordon Ramsay rescues failing UK restaurants; parent of the Fox Kitchen Nightmares and its spin-offs.
Ranch dressing
Ranch dressing is an American creamy dressing and dip made from buttermilk, mayonnaise, and herbs, and the best-selling salad dressing in the United States since 1992.
Rancidification
Rancidification is the oxidation or hydrolysis of fats and oils that produces off-flavors. Covers oxidative, hydrolytic, and microbial rancidity, measurement methods (peroxide value, TBARS, Rancimat, ESR), and prevention with antioxidants and packaging.
Rande Gerber
Rande Gerber (born 1962) is an American entrepreneur and former model, founder of the Gerber Group nightlife company and co-founder, with George Clooney and Mike Meldman, of Casamigos Tequila, sold to Diageo in 2017 for up to $1 billion; married to Cindy Crawford.
Randy Santel
Randy Santel, stage name Atlas, is an American professional competitive eater from Missouri who began in 2010, has won over a thousand restaurant food challenges worldwide, and owns FoodChallenges.com.
Ranveer Brar (रणवीर सिंह बराड़)
Ranveer Brar (रणवीर सिंह बराड़), born 1978 in Lucknow, is an Indian celebrity chef, MasterChef India judge, restaurateur (Kashkan, Dubai), YouTube host with over seven million followers, and actor in Modern Love Mumbai and The Buckingham Murders.
Rao's
Rao's, founded 1896 in East Harlem by Charles Rao, is a ten-table Italian-American restaurant famed for lemon chicken and inherited standing table rights; its Rao's Homemade sauce brand went to Campbell's in 2024, distinct from the unrelated Rao's score test in statistics.
Ras malai (रस मलाई)
Ras malai (रस मलाई, rosh malai) is a chilled South Asian dessert of chhena cheese patties cooked in sugar syrup and soaked in thickened cardamom-saffron milk; origin is claimed by K.C. Das of Kolkata and by Comilla's Matri Bhandar.
Rasgulla
Rasgulla (Bengali roshogolla, Odia rasagola) is a spongy chhena sweet boiled in sugar syrup. West Bengal's version is credited to Nobin Chandra Das (1868); Odisha ties its version to Puri's Jagannath Temple ritual. Both hold separate GI tags (2017, 2019).
Ratatouille
Ratatouille (ratatouille niçoise) is a Provençal stew of eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onions and tomatoes in olive oil, from Nice; first named in 1831, first fully recorded by Heyraud in 1903, and made famous internationally by the 2007 Pixar film's confit byaldi version.
Ratner's
Ratner's was a kosher dairy restaurant at 138 Delancey Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, founded in 1905 by Jacob Harmatz and Alex Ratner and run by the Harmatz family until its 2002 closing, famous for blintzes, onion rolls, and surly waiters.
Ravioli
Ravioli (singular raviolo) are Italian filled pasta: two sheets of dough sealed around meat, cheese, vegetable, or fish filling, then boiled or fried. Distinguished from tortellini and agnolotti by construction; documented from the medieval Liber de coquina onward.
Raw milk
Raw milk is unpasteurized milk, or milk not heat-treated to kill germs such as Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella. Also called unpasteurized milk, it caused over 2,600 illnesses in 1998–2018 US outbreaks and offers no proven nutritional advantage.
Rax Roast Beef
Rax Roast Beef, also called Rax Restaurants, is a roast-beef fast-food chain founded 1967 in Springfield, Ohio by Jack Roschman, peaking at 504 stores in the mid-1980s; six Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois locations remain under Richard Donohue.
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc (1902–1984), American businessman who built McDonald's into the world's largest restaurant franchise; joined as franchise agent in 1954, opened Des Plaines restaurant 1955, bought the McDonald brothers out for $2.7 million in 1961.
Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc is a French self-taught chef and restaurateur based in Britain, best known for Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxfordshire, which has held two Michelin stars since 1984.
RC Cola
RC Cola, also known as Royal Crown Cola or Chero-Cola, is an American cola soft drink created in 1905 in Columbus, Georgia, and renamed Royal Crown Cola in 1934.
Recipe
Recipe: a set of instructions plus ingredient list for preparing a dish; from Latin 'take'. Oldest examples are Babylonian cuneiform tablets (c. 1730 BCE); modern format standardized by Fannie Farmer (1896) and Schema.org markup online.