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İznik pottery
İznik pottery is Ottoman ceramics made in İznik (ancient Nicaea), Anatolia, from the mid-14th to the late 17th century, known for underglaze-painted dishes and tiles in cobalt blue and red.
J. Alexander (model)
J. Alexander (Alexander Jenkins), Miss J, is an American runway coach and TV personality from the South Bronx who coached models for Gaultier, Chanel, and Valentino, coached and judged America's Next Top Model from 2003, taught at SCAD, and revealed a 2022 stroke in Netflix's Reality Check.
J. Kenji López-Alt
J. Kenji López-Alt, also known as James Kenji López-Alt, is an American chef and food writer whose cookbooks The Food Lab and The Wok apply food science to home cooking.
J. Lyons and Co.
J. Lyons and Co. (Joe Lyons), British caterer and food manufacturer founded 1886 by the Salmon and Gluckstein families; teashops, Corner Houses, Lyons Tea, Lyons Maid, and LEO, the world's first business computer (1951); absorbed by Allied-Lyons, head office closed 1995.
J. Willard Marriott
J. Willard Marriott (1900-1985), Utah-born founder of Marriott International, opened a nine-seat A&W root beer stand in Washington, D.C. in 1927 that became Hot Shoppes, then airline catering and the Twin Bridges hotel, growing into a global lodging company.
J.Crew
J.Crew is an American preppy apparel retailer of J.Crew Group (with J.Crew Factory and Madewell), catalog-founded in 1983, bankrupt in 2020 with $1.65B debt swapped to equity under Anchorage Capital, now with 114 J.Crew, 160 Madewell, and 395 Factory US stores.
J.P. Stevens & Co.
J.P. Stevens & Co. was an American textile manufacturer founded in 1813 in Andover, Massachusetts, known for the 20-year union organizing campaign and consumer boycott that inspired the film Norma Rae.
JAB Holding Company
JAB Holding Company S.à r.l., also JAB Holding, is a Luxembourg-based investment firm majority-owned by the Reimann family with over $70 billion AUM, spanning coffee, restaurants, petcare, and life insurance.
Jabong.com
Jabong.com was an Indian online fashion e-commerce site launched in 2012 under Rocket Internet, which grew to about $500 million valuation before Myntra/Flipkart bought it in 2016 for $70 million and shut it in 2020.
Jack Daniel
Jack Daniel (Jasper Newton Daniel, c. 1846-1850 to 1911) was the Tennessee distiller who founded Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg in 1866, learned charcoal mellowing from Nearest Green, and left the brand to nephew Lem Motlow.
Jack Daniel's
Jack Daniel's is a Tennessee whiskey brand from Lynchburg, Tennessee, owned by Brown-Forman since 1956. Flagship Old No. 7, 40% ABV, charcoal-mellowed through sugar maple (Lincoln County Process); founding date contested (1866 label vs 1872-1875 sources).
Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box, also Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK), is a San Diego-founded American fast-food hamburger chain, a drive-thru pioneer with about 2,100 restaurants, ~90% franchised, concentrated in California and Texas, known for its all-day menu, clown mascot, the 1993 E. coli outbreak, and the 2025 sale of Del Taco.
Jack Lenor Larsen
Jack Lenor Larsen (1927–2020) was an American textile designer whose studio blended hand techniques with power weaving for high-end modern interiors, and who founded LongHouse Reserve.
Jack Monroe
Jack Monroe (born 1988, Melissa Hadjicostas) is a British food writer and anti-poverty campaigner whose 2012 blog A Girl Called Jack documented feeding her son on £10 a week, leading to bestselling budget cookbooks and the Vimes Boots price index.
Jack-o'-lantern
Jack-o'-lantern: carved, candle-lit pumpkin or vegetable lantern of Halloween. Named for the Irish Stingy Jack legend; originally a 1660s term for will-o'-the-wisp; turnips preceded American pumpkins.
Jaclyn Stapp
Jaclyn Stapp (born Jaclyn Nesheiwat, 1980), American beauty queen, Miss New York USA 2004 and Mrs. Florida America 2008; CHARM Foundation founder and, since February 2024, director of Miss Florida USA and Miss Florida Teen USA; wife of Creed singer Scott Stapp.
Jacobean embroidery
Jacobean embroidery is an English embroidery style from the reign of James I (1603-1625), usually worked in crewel wool on linen twill, known for tree of life motifs, scrolling stems, and stylized flora and fauna.
Jacqueline Bracamontes
Jacqueline Bracamontes (Jacqueline Ivonne Bracamontes Van Hoorde), Mexican actress and TV host born 1979 in Guadalajara; won Nuestra Belleza México 2000, competed at Miss Universe 2001, starred in Rubí and Sortilegio, and hosted La Voz... México.
Jacqueline Mars
Jacqueline Badger Mars (born 1939) is an American heiress holding an estimated one-third of Mars, Incorporated, granddaughter of founder Frank C. Mars; retired Mars executive, arts, education, and equestrian philanthropist.
Jacques Pépin
Jacques Pépin (born 1935, Bourg-en-Bresse) is a French-American chef, author of La Technique, and PBS cooking-show host; former chef to de Gaulle, Howard Johnson's research director, 16-time James Beard winner, and founder of the Jacques Pépin Foundation.
Jacques Torres
Jacques Torres, born 1960 in Algiers, is a French chocolatier and pastry chef called Mr. Chocolate; Meilleur Ouvrier de France 1986, Le Cirque pastry chef 1989-2000, James Beard winner, and founder of Jacques Torres Chocolate in New York.
Jade Jagger
Jade Jagger, full name Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger, is a British jewelry designer and creative director, daughter of Mick Jagger, who leads her own brand, Jade Jagger Jewellery.
Jaffa Cakes
Jaffa Cakes, McVitie's sponge-orange-chocolate cakes introduced in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges; ruled legally cakes, zero-rated for VAT, in the 1991 United Biscuits tribunal.
Jägerbomb
Jägerbomb (Jag bomb, Turbojäger): bomb shot dropping a Jägermeister shot into Red Bull or another energy drink; popular from the early 2000s, ~4–8% ABV, ~190 calories, origins disputed.
Jägermeister
Jägermeister: German herbal liqueur (Kräuterlikör) from Wolfenbüttel, 35% ABV, 56 secret botanicals, created by Curt Mast 1934, launched 1935; cold-macerated, oak-aged, 117.6 million bottles sold in 2025.
Jain vegetarianism
Jain vegetarianism is the mandated lacto-vegetarian diet of Jainism, grounded in ahimsa; it forbids meat, eggs, honey, alcohol, and root vegetables like potato, onion, and garlic, which tradition holds contain many souls.
Jaipur blue pottery
Jaipur blue pottery is a glazed, low-fired ceramic craft of Jaipur, Rajasthan, made from a quartz-based dough with no clay and painted in cobalt blue and white.
Jajangmyeon (짜장면)
Jajangmyeon (짜장면), Korean zhajiangmian noodles, is a Korean-Chinese dish of wheat noodles in black chunjang sauce with pork and onions, born in Incheon after the 1883 port opening.
Jalebi
Jalebi (जलेबी), also jilebi or jilipi, is a South Asian sweet of fermented maida batter piped into spirals, deep-fried, and soaked in sugar syrup; descended from West Asian zalabiya, with imarti (jangiri) as its urad dal relative.
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, also called Jamaica Blue Mountain, is a certification-mark Arabica Typica coffee grown up to 1,800 m in four Jamaican parishes, JACRA-inspected, barrel-packed, and 65-80% exported to Japan.