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Japchae (잡채)

Japchae, also spelled chapchae (잡채), is a Korean dish of chewy sweet potato starch noodles stir-fried with vegetables, mushrooms, and usually beef, seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil.

Jarah Mariano

Jarah Mariano is an American model known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2008 and 2009. She is also the wife of actor Milo Ventimiglia.

Jarden

Jarden Corporation, founded in 2001 by Martin Franklin and Ian Ashken, was an American consumer products company (Yankee Candle, Coleman, Mr. Coffee) sold to Newell Rubbermaid in 2016 for about $15.3 billion; Delaware courts later valued it at $48.31 per share, below the deal price.

Jared Fogle

Jared Fogle, the "Subway Guy," lost 245 pounds on a Subway diet and was Subway's spokesman from 2000 to 2015, then pleaded guilty to child pornography and sex crimes and received a 15.5-year federal sentence.

Jarlsberg cheese

Jarlsberg (Jarlsberg®) is a Norwegian semi-hard cow's-milk cheese with large eyes and a mild, sweet, nutty flavor, developed in 1956 at the Agricultural University of Norway under Professor Ole Martin Ystgaard and made by TINE SA in Norway, the USA, and Ireland.

Jarritos

Jarritos is a Mexican cane-sugar fruit soda brand founded August 29, 1950 by chemist Francisco "El Güero" Hill in Mexico City; first flavor coffee, later its tamarind soda, now in 45+ countries via Novamex.

Jashn-e-Rekhta

Jashn-e-Rekhta (جشنِ ریختہ) is an annual three-day festival of Urdu poetry, music, and culture held in New Delhi since 2015, described as the world's largest celebration of Urdu.

Jasmine Lennard

Jasmine Lennard, English model and reality-TV personality, known for Make Me a Supermodel (2005), her 2006 sacking from its Extra spin-off, and Celebrity Big Brother 2012; daughter of Brian Lennard and Marilyn Galsworthy.

Jasmine Sanders

Jasmine Sanders, aka Golden Barbie (born 1991), German-American model raised in South Carolina; Miu Miu Fall 2016 breakout, SI Swimsuit 2019 Rookie of the Year and 2020 cover star.

Jasmine tea (茉莉花茶)

Jasmine tea (茉莉花茶) is a Chinese reprocessed scented tea made by scenting roasted green tea with fresh jasmine flowers and removing them; Fuzhou is its birthplace, its craft entered UNESCO's 2022 heritage list, and grades are set by scenting rounds under GB/T 22292-2017.

Jasmine Tookes

Jasmine Tookes (born 1991) is an American model from Huntington Beach, California, a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2015 who wore the $3 million 2016 Bright Night Fantasy Bra and opened the 2025 VS show while pregnant; founder of the Brunel beauty line.

Jasperware

Jasperware is a fine-grained, unglazed stoneware invented by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s at his Etruria works in Staffordshire, decorated with white reliefs imitating antique cameos.

Jay Rayner

Jay Rayner (born 1966) is a British restaurant critic, broadcaster, novelist and jazz pianist, the Observer's critic 1999 to 2025 and then Financial Times critic, known for savage, score-free reviews, the Le Cinq takedown, The Kitchen Cabinet, and the Jay Rayner Sextet.

JBS S.A.

JBS S.A., also known as Friboi and now listed as JBS N.V. on the NYSE, is a Brazilian multinational meatpacking company founded in 1953 in Anápolis, Goiás. It is the world's largest meatpacker, with six protein segments, US operations, and documented deforestation and corruption controversies.

JBS USA

JBS USA, the Greeley, Colorado-based North American and Oceanian arm of Brazil's JBS, is a leading meat processor (beef, pork, poultry, lamb, prepared foods) created by the 2007 Swift & Company acquisition, with 2021 net sales of US$48.8 billion.

JCPenney

JCPenney, historically the J.C. Penney Company, is an American department store retailer founded by James Cash Penney in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in 1902 and now part of Catalyst Brands.

JD Sports

JD Sports, main fascia of JD Sports Fashion Plc (John David Sports), British sports fashion retailer founded 1981 in Bury; FTSE 100, 4,800+ stores in 51 countries, FY26 revenue £12,662m, distinct from JD.com.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) was a French magistrate and author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), the foundational 1825–26 gastronomic text; also the namesake of the triple-cream Brillat-Savarin cheese.

Jean Patou

Jean Patou (1880 or 1887–1936) was a French couturier who founded his Paris house in 1914, pioneered corset-free dress and women's sportswear with muse Suzanne Lenglen, created the JP monogram and the perfume Joy, and led a house later headed by Lagerfeld and Lacroix.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier, born 1952 in Arcueil, is the French couturier who founded his Paris label in 1976, created Madonna's cone-bra corsets, skirts for men, and the Le Male fragrance, opened a couture house in 1997, designed for Hermès 2004-2010, and retired from the runway in January 2020.

Jean Shrimpton

Jean Shrimpton (born 1942), English model of Swinging London, called an early supermodel by TIME in 1971; muse and partner of photographer David Bailey 1960–1964, star of the 1962 "Young Idea Goes West" Vogue shoot and the 1965 Melbourne Cup minidress scandal, retired to Penzance in 1976.

Jean-Luc Brunel

Jean-Luc Brunel (1946-2022), French modeling agent and head of Karin Models and MC2 Model Management, close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, charged in France with raping a minor, found hanged in La Santé prison in 2022.

Jean-Philippe Susilovic

Jean-Philippe Susilovic (born 1975, Brussels), called JP, Belgian maître d'hôtel of Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen (UK season 1; US seasons 1-7, 11-12), later restaurant director at Pétrus and co-owner of Kiss the Chef in Ostend.

Jeana Keough

Jeana Keough (born Jean Myers, 1955) is an American reality TV personality, realtor, and former Playboy Playmate (November 1980, as Jeana Tomasino) and ZZ Top video model; an original Real Housewives of Orange County cast member (2006–2010), diagnosed with tongue cancer in July 2026.

Jeanne Lanvin

Jeanne Lanvin (1867–1946) was a French couturière who founded the house of Lanvin, described as the oldest couture house still operating, beginning with a hat shop in 1889.

Jeanne Robertson

Jeanne Swanner Robertson (1943-2021), American humorist and professional speaker, Miss North Carolina 1963 and Miss America Miss Congeniality; known for clean family stories about husband Jerry 'Left Brain' and viral YouTube clips.

Jeans

Jeans: riveted denim trousers patented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873, evolved from Genoese "jean" fabric and Nîmes denim workwear into a global casual garment, now scrutinized for water and chemical use.

Jebena (ጀበና)

The jebena (ጀበና), also spelled jabana, is a clay coffee pot used in Ethiopia and Eritrea to brew and serve coffee in the traditional three-round ceremony.

Jeff Smith (chef)

Jeff Smith, born Jeffrey L. Smith, was an American cooking-show host and cookbook author known as "The Frugal Gourmet," whose PBS series ran from 1983 to 1997.

Jellied eels

Jellied eels are a traditional London dish of eels boiled and set in jelly, eaten cold with vinegar. An 18th-century East End specialty sold in pie and mash shops, now rare, made from the critically endangered European eel.