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Kissel
Kissel (kisel, kisiel, kiisseli; кисель) is a viscous Eastern European dessert or drink of fruit or berry juice thickened with starch, descended from ancient fermented oat gruels; served warm or cold across Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Finland.
Kit Kat
Kit Kat, chocolate-covered wafer bar created 1935 by Rowntree's as Chocolate Crisp, renamed 1937; owned by Nestlé since 1988, made in the US by Hershey under license; sold in 80+ countries.
Kit Kats in Japan
Kit Kats in Japan (キットカット): Nestlé's chocolate-wafer bar launched there in 1973 via Fujiya, renamed 'kitto katsu' good-luck exam gift, with 450+ flavors, regional souvenir editions since 2002, and the first KitKat Chocolatory.
Kitchen
Kitchen: the room or area for preparing, cooking, and storing food; also called fitted kitchen, commercial kitchen. Covers history from ancient Egypt to the 1926 Frankfurt Kitchen, layouts, work triangle, and ventilation.
Kitchen (Кухня) (TV series)
Кухня (Kitchen) is a Russian sitcom that aired on СТС from 22 October 2012 to 2016, six seasons and 120 episodes about chefs at the Moscow restaurant Claude Monet, starring Dmitry Nazarov, Mark Bogatyrev, and Dmitry Nagiev, produced by Yellow, Black and White.
Kitchen knife
Kitchen knife: hand-held food-preparation cutting tool. Types include chef's knife (couteau du chef), santoku, paring, bread, cleaver. Defined by blade length, edge style, flexibility; chef's knife 8–12 inches is the workhorse.
Kitchen Nightmares
Kitchen Nightmares (Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, UK original) is a Gordon Ramsay reality franchise in which he rescues failing restaurants; five UK series from 2004, a US run 2007-2014, revived on Fox in 2023 with seasons through 2026.
Kitchen stove
Kitchen stove: a household appliance with a cooktop, often combined with an oven in a range. Types include gas, electric resistance, and induction (~85% efficient vs ~1/3 for gas). Covered by IEC 60335 safety standards and ISO cookstove performance tiers.
Kitchen utensil
Kitchen utensil: a hand-held small tool for food preparation, cooking, serving, or eating; covers knives, spatulas, pots, and ladles, spanning stone metates, aluminium's 1925 to 1950 peak, and modern food-contact regulation.
Kmart Australia
Kmart Australia: Wesfarmers-owned discount department store chain founded 1969 in Burwood, Victoria; 323 stores in Australia and New Zealand; Anko house brand is 85 percent of products; distinct from the unrelated US Kmart.
Knafeh
Knafeh, also spelled kunafa or kanafeh and known in Turkey as künefe, is a Middle Eastern dessert made with pastry, a cheese or cream filling, and sugar syrup. Versions occur across Palestine,.
Knickerbocker glory
Knickerbocker glory: a British layered ice cream sundae in a tall glass, first recorded in a 1915 US soda fountain handbook, named from Washington Irving's Knickerbocker, famous at Fortnum & Mason since 1956.
Knickerbockers (clothing)
Knickerbockers, shortened to knickers, are loose baggy trousers gathered just below the knee, named after Washington Irving's character Diedrich Knickerbocker and closely tied to New York City's identity.
Knish
Knish (Yiddish קניש), Ashkenazi Jewish baked or fried dough pastry filled with mashed potato, kasha, or onion; New York street food since about 1900, first knish bakery 1910.
Knit cap
Knit cap, also called beanie, watch cap, tuque, or stocking cap: a close-fitting brimless knitted cap for warmth. Known from 16th-century London survivals, the 1571 Cappers Act, and the US Navy watch cap.
Knitted fabric
Knitted fabric is a textile of intermeshed yarn loops, in weft and warp families, giving stretch, porosity, and comfort versus wovens; used from T-shirts to medical implants, with machine knitting dating to William Lee's 1589 stocking frame.
Knitting
Knitting: fabric made by intermeshing yarn loops, in weft and warp families; knit and purl stitches, courses and wales, gauge, stretch up to 200% elongation, from William Lee's 1589 stocking frame to six-minute machine sweaters.
Knitting machine
Knitting machine: mechanical device forming knitted fabric via needles, from William Lee's 1589 bearded-needle frame and Brunel's 1816 circular machine to Lamb's 1863 flat-bed and modern computerized flat and circular machines.
Knitting needle
Knitting needles, also called knitting pins, are long, slender, pointed tools used to form interlocking loops of yarn into knitted fabric, sold in straight, double-pointed, and circular types.
Knitting pattern notation
Knitting pattern notation: the abbreviations (K, P, k2tog, ssk) and chart symbols used in written knitting instructions, standardized by Craft Yarn Council lists, Weldon's 1906 abbreviations, and read via charts bottom-up with US/UK vocabulary differences.
Knödel
Knödel are boiled or steamed dumplings of Alpine cuisine, called Klöße in northern Germany, made from potato, bread, flour, semolina or meat, with Neolithic Mondsee evidence and a 13th-century Hocheppan fresco.
Kobe beef
Kobe beef (神戸ビーフ, KOBE BEEF) is certified wagyu from purebred Tajima cattle raised and slaughtered in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, meeting BMS 6+, meat quality 4+, yield A/B, and carcass weight limits; defined in 1983, GI Registration No. 3, under 0.2% of Japan's beef market.
Kofta
Kofta (Persian kufta/koofteh, "pounded meat") is a minced-meat dish family of Persian origin, shaped as balls or fingers and grilled, fried, boiled, or simmered; spread across the Middle East, Mediterranean (köfte, kefta), and Mughal India, with varieties like kufta tabrizi and Daud Basha.
Kogal (コギャル)
Kogal (コギャル), also romanized kogyaru, was a Japanese youth fashion subculture of the mid-1990s to early 2000s, centered in Tokyo's Shibuya district, whose high-school girls wore shortened uniforms, baggy loose socks, dyed hair, and dark tans.
Kōgei
Kōgei (工芸) is the contemporary Japanese word for craft, referring to everyday objects like cloth, bowls, and kettles made with local materials and techniques passed down through generations; Japan designates 244 traditional crafts.
Kogi Korean BBQ
Kogi Korean BBQ (Kogi BBQ) is a Los Angeles food-truck business founded November 2008 by Mark Manguera, Caroline Shin-Manguera, and chef Roy Choi, known for Korean-Mexican short rib tacos and Twitter-based location broadcasts that helped launch the gourmet food truck movement.
Kohl (cosmetics)
Kohl (kajal, surma, al-kahl, tiro) is a traditional powdered eye cosmetic from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, often based on galena lead sulfide or soot and frequently containing high lead levels, which has led to bans and import alerts in the US, Canada, and Britain.
Kokeshi
Kokeshi (こけし, also written 小芥子) are lathe-turned Japanese wooden dolls from the Tōhoku region, with a spherical head on a cylindrical body painted as a girl and no arms or legs.
Kokoretsi
Kokoretsi (Greek κοκορέτσι, Turkish kokoreç) is a grilled Balkan-Anatolian dish of lamb or goat intestines wrapped around seasoned offal; the Greek Easter version includes organ meats, the Turkish street version is chopped and served in bread.
Kokoshnik (кокошник)
Kokoshnik (кокошник), the traditional Russian festive headdress of married women: a stiff-crested cap fully covering the hair, from Old Russian "kokosh" (hen), first recorded in 17th-century documents, richly decorated with pearls and goldwork.