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Kolam (கோலம்)
Kolam (கோலம்), also kōlam, is the Tamil threshold floor-drawing tradition of South India: rice-flour designs around pulli dot grids drawn at dawn by women, transmitted mother to daughter, studied mathematically, and nominated to UNESCO in 2011.
Kölsch (beer)
Kölsch is Cologne's pale, top-fermented, hop-accented full beer, about 4.8% alcohol, served in 0.2-liter Stange glasses; protected by the 1985/1986 Kölsch-Konvention and an EU protected geographical indication.
Kombu (Laminaria japonica) extract
Kombu (Laminaria japonica) extract, also called kombu or dashima extract, is an umami flavoring from Japanese kelp; GRAS-notified as GRN 123 (Fuji Foods, 2003) for soups, seasonings, and meat products, and rich in soluble iodine.
Kombucha
Kombucha, also called kōcha kinoko (red tea mushroom), is a lightly effervescent fermented sweetened tea made with a SCOBY culture; origins traced to China around 220 B.C., pH 2.5-4.2, under 0.5% alcohol, thin human health evidence.
Kompot
Kompot (компот, kompocik, uzvar/vzvar) is an Eastern European non-alcoholic drink of fruit boiled in sweetened water, jarred for winter; distinct from French compote, with 16–24% syrups and 10–25 min pasteurization.
Kona coffee
Kona coffee: premium Arabica coffee, mostly Kona Typica, grown on a narrow 20-mile belt of Hawaii Island's western slopes; ~2 million pounds of green beans yearly, protected by state labeling law rising to 51% in 2027.
Kongo textiles
Kongo textiles are woven and embroidered raffia palm cloths made by the Kingdom of Kongo in west-central Africa from the first millennium until about 1900.
Koningsdag
Koningsdag (King's Day), the Dutch national holiday on 27 April since 2014, celebrating King Willem-Alexander's birthday with a royal visit to a host municipality; successor of Koninginnedag on 30 April, begun as Prinsessedag in 1885.
Konpeitō (金平糖)
Konpeitō (金平糖) is a traditional Japanese sugar candy that originated from the Portuguese confeito. It is made by coating a seed core with syrup in a rotating pan.
Kool-Aid
Kool-Aid, originally Kool-Ade, is an American powdered drink mix created in 1927 by Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska, from his Fruit Smack syrup; owned by Kraft Heinz, mascot Kool-Aid Man, official soft drink of Nebraska.
Kool-Aid Man
Kool-Aid Man, the anthropomorphic glass-pitcher mascot of Kraft Heinz's Kool-Aid drink mix; created as the Pitcher Man in 1954 and fully realized in 1975, famous for bursting through walls while shouting "Oh yeah!".
Koozie
Koozie (KOOZIE®) is a US registered trademark of Koozie Group (Scribe Opco) for insulated beverage holders, coined in Texas in 1979 and sold by Radio Cap Corporation from 1980, yet widely used generically for foam can coolers.
Kopi luwak
Kopi luwak, or civet coffee, is an Indonesian specialty coffee made from beans excreted by the Asian palm civet; among the world's most expensive coffees, it faces animal welfare criticism over caged civets and authenticity fraud.
Korean barbecue
Korean barbecue (K-BBQ; 고기구이) is dining where meat such as bulgogi, galbi, and samgyeopsal is grilled at the table's center with banchan. It differs from American barbecue by tabletop cooking, shared grills, skewer-derived jeok roots, and group-coded social ritual.
Korean cuisine
Korean cuisine (한식, hansik) is the traditional food of the Korean Peninsula, defined by fermentation: kimchi, jang sauces, and jeotgal, developed in geographic isolation and promoted globally since the 2008 Global Hansik Campaign.
Korean Englishman (영국남자)
Korean Englishman (영국남자) is a YouTube channel created 7 June 2013 by British creators Josh Carrott and Oliver Kendal, introducing Korean food and culture to British audiences in Korean and English; about 6.2 million subscribers, with a second channel, Jolly.
Korean fried chicken
Korean fried chicken (치킨, chikin): double-fried, starch-coated fried chicken from South Korea, with yangnyeom sweet-spicy or soy-garlic glazes; born of post-Korean War US influence, paired with beer as chimaek.
Korean knots
Korean knots, or maedeup (매듭), are the traditional craft of tying dyed silk cords into decorative knots used on norigae hanbok pendants, tassels, and court items, with Neolithic origins, Joseon court artisans, and designated heritage holders.
Korma (قورمہ)
Korma (قورمہ, qorma, kurma) is a South Asian braising technique and dish family from Mughal cuisine: meat or vegetables slow-cooked in yogurt, cream, or nut paste, with northern creamy, southern coconut, and mild British restaurant variants.
Kosher foods
Kosher foods, or kashrut, are foods permitted under Jewish dietary law from Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14: no pork or shellfish, shechitah slaughter, no meat with dairy, and rabbinic certification such as the OU hechsher.
Kosher restaurant
Kosher restaurant: a food-service establishment certified as compliant with kashrut by a rabbinic agency or Israel's Chief Rabbinate, run under a mashgiach's supervision; distinguished from uncertified kosher-style venues and from certifying agencies such as OU, OK, Star-K, and Kof-K.
Kosher salt
Kosher salt, better called koshering salt, is a coarse-grained salt used to draw blood from meat in kashering; its large crystals and lack of iodine made it the default salt of American chefs and recipe developers.
Kosher wine
Kosher wine is wine made under Jewish dietary law: Sabbath-observant Jews must handle production from crushing to bottling, and yayin mevushal (flash-pasteurized cooked wine) keeps kosher status even when handled by non-Jews.
Koteka
Koteka (Dani: holim) is a penis sheath of dried bottle gourd worn by men of Papuan highland groups such as the Dani, Lani, and Yali; its shape signals social rank, and Indonesia's 1971–1974 Operasi Koteka campaign to replace it failed.
Kouign-amann
Kouign-amann (Breton 'butter cake') is a laminated pastry of bread dough, salted butter, and sugar from Douarnenez, Brittany, created around 1860 by baker Yves-René Scordia and baked to a caramelized crust.
Kowtow (磕头)
Kowtow (磕头, 叩頭, ketou/koutou, Cantonese kautau): the Chinese ritual of kneeling and touching the head to the ground; grand form is three kneelings and nine kowtows; English word borrowed 1804, figurative sense 1826; Macartney 1793.
Kraft Dinner
Kraft Dinner (KD) is the Canadian name for Kraft's boxed macaroni and cheese, introduced in 1937 and renamed Kraft Mac & Cheese in the US in 2022; a Canadian staple with 225 g boxes and its own product line.
Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods, the historic American packaged food company, split in 2012 into Mondelēz International and Kraft Foods Group, which merged with Heinz in 2015 to form Kraft Heinz.
Kraft Foods Inc.
Kraft Foods Inc., also known simply as Kraft (KFT), was the American packaged food company incorporated in Virginia in 2000, acquired Nabisco, listed in 2001, bought Cadbury in 2010, and split in 2012 into Mondelez International and Kraft Foods Group.
Kraft Heinz
Kraft Heinz (Nasdaq: KHC), also The Kraft Heinz Company, is the food company formed by the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods Group and H.J. Heinz; ~$25 billion 2025 net sales, Berkshire Hathaway's 325 million shares, and a paused 2025 split plan distinguish it.