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Arabic coffee (قهوة)
Arabic coffee (قهوة, qahwa/gahwa) is a lightly roasted, cardamom-spiced hospitality coffee of the Arabian Peninsula, poured from a dallah into small finjan cups; UNESCO-inscribed in 2015 (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar) and extended to Jordan in 2024.
Arak (عراق) (drink)
Arak (عرق) is the Levant's grape-based, anise-flavored distilled spirit, national drink of Lebanon, typically 50-63% ABV, triple-distilled with aniseed on the final run, and turning milky white with water via the anethole louche effect.
Arakawa Toyozō
Arakawa Toyozō (荒川豊蔵; 1894–1985) was a Japanese ceramic artist from Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, who revived Shino and Setoguro pottery and in 1955 became an inaugural Living National Treasure.
Aramark
Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) is a Philadelphia-based food and facilities services company, formed as ARA in 1959 and renamed Aramark in 1994. It earned $18.5 billion in fiscal 2025, employs about 270,000 people, and ranks third behind Compass Group and Sodexo in contract catering.
Aran jumper
Aran jumper (geansaí Árann), also called Aran or fisherman sweater: a heavy cream cable-knit Irish sweater from the Aran Islands, Galway Bay. A 20th-century invention tied to the 1891 Congested Districts Board, popularized by Vogue in 1956, with later myths of clan patterns and drowned fishermen.
Aran knitting
Aran knitting is the Irish tradition of hand-knitted cream sweaters with cabled panels, associated with the Aran Islands and dating only to the early 20th century.
Arancini
Arancini are fried rice balls coated in breadcrumbs, a staple of Sicilian street food. They feature regional fillings like meat ragù with peas or melted cheese and ham.
Arby's
Arby's is an American fast-food sandwich chain founded by brothers Leroy and Forrest Raffel in Boardman, Ohio, in 1964, known for slow-roasted roast beef sandwiches and Curly Fries.
Arcadia Group
Arcadia Group was the British clothing retail group behind Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Evans and Wallis. Founded as Burton in 1903, bought by Philip Green in 2002, it collapsed into administration in November 2020 and its brands were sold to ASOS and Boohoo.
Areíto
The areíto (also areyto) was the principal collective ceremony of the Taíno people of the Caribbean, combining music, song, dance, and recitation to preserve communal history.
Argentine cuisine
Argentine cuisine, the culinary tradition of Argentina, blends Indigenous, Spanish colonial, and Italian immigrant influences, best known for beef, asado, yerba mate, and dulce de leche.
Argentine pizza
Argentine pizza, or pizza argentina, is the thick, pan-baked, cheese-heavy pizza style that developed in Buenos Aires from Italian immigration, known for fugazzeta, fainá, and pizzerías like Banchero and Güerrín.
Argon in food packaging
Argon in food packaging: use of the noble gas argon (E 938, CAS 7440-37-1) as a modified-atmosphere packaging gas. FDA GRAS notice GRN 57 (2000); EU E 938; denser than nitrogen, displaces oxygen, extends shelf-life.
Argyle (pattern)
Argyle is a knitted diamond pattern derived from Clan Campbell of Argyll tartan, turned 90 degrees and cut on the bias, reworked by Pringle from the 1920s and tied to golf, socks, and sweaters.
Ariana Miyamoto (宮本エリアナ)
Ariana Miyamoto (宮本エリアナ), born 1994 in Sasebo, Nagasaki, is a Japanese model and actress; daughter of a Japanese mother and African-American father, she was the first mixed-race Miss Universe Japan (2015), placed top 10 at Miss Universe 2015, and later acted in Fence and Political Pan.
Arianny Celeste
Arianny Celeste, born Penelope López Márquez in 1985, is an American model and television personality from Las Vegas, best known as the UFC's longest-running Octagon Girl, starting in 2006.
Aritzia
Aritzia is a Canadian women's fashion retailer founded in Vancouver in 1984 by Brian Hill, selling exclusive in-house brands and trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Arizona Beverage Company
Arizona Beverage Company (AriZona, AriZona Tea), founded by Ferolito and Vultaggio, launched 1992 in New York; family-owned maker of 99-cent 23.5-oz ready-to-drink iced teas, lemonades, and juices.
Arm knitting
Arm knitting: a needle-free hand-knitting technique using the forearms as needles, roughly 50 mm each, with super bulky yarn to make chunky blankets and scarves quickly.
Armagnac
Armagnac is a grape brandy from Gascony, southwestern France, and the oldest French eau-de-vie, first documented in 1310. AOC since 1936 across Bas-Armagnac, Ténarèze, and Haut-Armagnac, it is typically single-distilled in a continuous alambic armagnacais and has a strong vintage tradition.
Armand de Brignac
Armand de Brignac, nicknamed Ace of Spades, is a prestige Champagne brand launched in 2006 by the Cattier family and promoted by Jay-Z, co-owned 50/50 with Moët Hennessy since 2021, producing about 100,000 bottles yearly in Chigny-les-Roses.
Armani
Armani: Italian luxury fashion house founded in Milan in 1975 by Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti; brands Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, Armani Exchange, Armani Privé; founder died September 2025, succession via Giorgio Armani Foundation.
Armenian cuisine
Armenian cuisine, the culinary tradition of the Armenian people (haykakan khohanots), features lavash bread, khorovats, tolma, khash, and harissa, split into Western and Eastern branches after the 1915 genocide, with UNESCO-recognized lavash and a 6,100-year-old Areni winery.
Armi Kuusela
Armi Kuusela (Armi Helena Kuusela, born 1934, Muhos) is the Finnish winner of the first Miss Universe pageant, Long Beach 1952; later married Gil Hilario, then diplomat Albert Williams, and settled in California.
Armour and Company
Armour and Company (Armour & Co.) was a Chicago meatpacking firm founded by the Armour brothers in 1867; led by Philip Danforth Armour from 1875, it pioneered by-products processing and refrigerated distribution, became one of the Big Five packers, and lost family control in the early 1920s.
Arnold Palmer (drink)
The Arnold Palmer is a nonalcoholic mix of iced tea and lemonade named after golfer Arnold Palmer, originating in 1960s Palm Springs; AriZona's Lite Half & Half and a 5% ABV Spiked version are the main branded products.
Aromantic flag
Aromantic flag: five-stripe pride flag (dark green, light green, white, gray, black) for aromanticism, designed by Tumblr user Cameron Whimsy in 2014; replaced an earlier four-stripe flag and a yellow-center version.
Arrack
Arrack (also spelled arak) is a South and Southeast Asian distilled spirit made from coconut-palm sap, sugarcane, rice, or fruit; related to but distinct from Middle Eastern anise arak, with Sri Lanka and Batavia arrack as leading styles.
Arthur Guinness
Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), Irish brewer from Celbridge, founder of the St James's Gate brewery, Dublin; signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 a year in 1759, began with ale, switched to porter in 1799, and left the business to his son Arthur II.
Arthur Treacher's
Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips, American fast-seafood chain founded 1969 in Columbus, Ohio, named for the British actor; peaked near 800 stores in the 1970s, declined to three Northeast Ohio restaurants plus a Nathan's Famous ghost-kitchen brand.