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Licor 43
Licor 43 (Cuarenta y Tres) is a Spanish vanilla-citrus liqueur, 31% ABV, made in Cartagena since 1946 by the Zamora family from 43 secret ingredients; famous for the Carajillo 43 espresso cocktail.
Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Bastianich (Lidia Giuliana Matticchio Bastianich, born 1947, Pula, Istria) is an Italian-American chef, Emmy-winning PBS host, cookbook author, and Eataly founder who opened Felidia in 1981 and hosted PBS cooking series since 1998.
Lidl
Lidl is a German limited-assortment discount supermarket chain of the Schwarz Group, headquartered in Neckarsulm, with about 12,900 stores in 32 countries. First store 1973 in Ludwigshafen; major private-label, low-price grocer in the UK, Spain, and US.
Liège waffle
Liège waffle (gaufre de Liège): dense Belgian street-food waffle from Liège, Wallonia, made of yeasted brioche dough with caramelizing pearl sugar, baked in a 24-hole iron, eaten plain by hand, distinct from the lighter Brussels waffle.
Life Savers
Life Savers is an American brand of ring-shaped hard candy, gummies, and mints, introduced in 1912 by Clarence A. Crane and now owned by Mars.
Lifebuoy (soap)
Lifebuoy (soap): Unilever hygiene brand, launched 1894 by Lever Brothers as a carbolic disinfectant soap; red bar, €1 billion brand, Mumbai trial showed 25% fewer diarrhoea episodes.
Lillet
Lillet, known as Kina Lillet until its 1986 relaunch, is a French aromatized wine aperitif, or quinquina, made in Podensac in the Graves region south of Bordeaux.
Lilly Pulitzer
Lilly Pulitzer, the American resort-wear brand founded in Palm Beach in 1959, known for brightly printed shift dresses; closed 1984, revived by Sugartown Worldwide, owned by Oxford Industries since 2010.
Lily Aldridge
Lily Aldridge (born 1985) is an American model from Los Angeles, a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2009 and 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 50th anniversary cover model, married to Caleb Followill.
Lily Cole
Lily Cole (born 1988) is a British model, actress, writer, and activist, discovered at 14 and signed to Storm; model of the year at the 2004 British Fashion Awards, Cambridge double first in History of Art, star of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and author of Who Cares Wins.
Limburger
Limburger: semi-soft washed-rind cow's milk cheese from the historical Duchy of Limburg, also called Herve in Belgium. Famous pungent rind aroma from Brevibacterium linens and related smear bacteria; mild creamy interior; 30-40% milk fat; only US maker is Chalet Cheese, Wisconsin.
Limoncello
Limoncello: Italian lemon liqueur from Campania (Sorrento, Amalfi, Capri), made by steeping lemon peel in alcohol and sugar syrup; about 30% sugar and alcohol, trademarked commercially in 1988, served frozen as a digestif.
Lincoln cent
Lincoln cent, also called Lincoln penny, is the US one-cent coin first struck in 1909 with Brenner's Lincoln portrait; wheat, Memorial, bicentennial, and Shield reverses; copper until 1982, then zinc; circulating production ended November 12, 2025.
Linda Evangelista
Linda Evangelista, born 1965 in St. Catharines, Ontario, is a Canadian supermodel of the original 1990s era, the "chameleon" behind "The Linda" haircut, the $10,000-a-day quote, and over 700 magazine covers.
Linda Górecká
Linda Górecká (born 2003, Dětmarovice) is a Czech model and influencer, Miss Czech Republic 2025, who represented her country at Miss World 2026 in Vietnam; her charity focus is cancer patients and oncology awareness.
Lindsey Langston
Lindsey Langston (born 1999), Miss United States 2024 from Lake City, Florida, is a Republican Columbia County committeewoman, children's author, and agriculture advocate who obtained a 2025 injunction against Rep. Cory Mills.
Lindt
Lindt, brand of Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG, Swiss premium chocolate maker founded 1845 in Zurich; known for conching (1879), Lindor, Gold Bunny, Excellence; CHF 5.92bn sales in 2025.
Linear Pottery culture
Linear Pottery culture (Linearbandkeramik, LBK), Early Neolithic farming culture of central Europe, c. 5650–4900 BC, known for incised linear pottery, longhouses on loess soils, and rapid spread from the middle Danube.
Linen
Linen is a textile woven from the bast fibers of flax (Linum usitatissimum), one of the oldest textile fibers; the EU grows 70% of flax, and linen shows lower water and carbon impacts than cotton.
Lingerie
Lingerie: women's underwear, sleepwear, and intimate apparel, from French linge (linen). Covers hard garments like corsets and structured bras and soft items like slips and panties, shaped by 400 years of fashion history and a USD 22 billion US market.
Lion dance
Lion dance (狮舞, 舞狮), a Chinese performing art over 1,500 years old, has two dancers in a lion costume moving to drums, gongs, and cymbals; distinct Northern (Beijing, acrobatic) and Southern (Guangdong, kung fu) traditions, now global and heritage-listed.
Lip kiss
Lip kiss: direct mouth-to-mouth contact; the romantic-sexual kiss occurs in only 46% of 168 sampled cultures, is recorded in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago, and may descend from ape grooming, per Bayesian phylogenetic dating.
Lip plate
Lip plate (lip disc, lip plug, labret): disc or plug worn in a pierced, gradually stretched lip, worn by Mursi women of Ethiopia and Kayapó men of Brazil; plates reach 12 cm, prevalence falling.
Lipstick
Lipstick is a pigmented wax-and-oil cosmetic for coloring the lips, first recorded at Ur around 3500 BCE under Queen Schub-ad, made as a cylindrical stick since 1915, and regulated today as a cosmetic with an external-use classification that current ingestion research challenges.
Lipton
Lipton is a global tea brand founded by Sir Thomas Lipton in Glasgow in 1871, known for Yellow Label black tea sold in over 100 countries. Packaged tea is owned by LIPTON Teas and Infusions (CVC Capital Partners, since 2022); iced tea sits in the PepsiCo-Unilever Pepsi Lipton joint venture.
Liqueur
Liqueur: sweetened, flavoured distilled spirit (also called cordial in the US), 15-40% ABV typically, EU minimum 15% vol and 100 g/L sugar; includes herbal, fruit, bitter, and cream types.
Liquid Death
Liquid Death (Supplying Demand, Inc.) is a Los Angeles canned-beverage brand founded by Mike Cessario, selling mountain water, sparkling water, iced tea, and energy drinks in beer-style aluminum cans under "Murder Your Thirst" heavy metal branding, reaching a $1.4 billion valuation and 133,000+ retail doors.
Liquid smoke
Liquid smoke, or smoke condensate, is a water-soluble wood-smoke flavouring invented by Ernest H. Wright in 1895, refined to remove tar and PAHs, used industrially and in home cooking.
Liquor
Liquor, also called spirits or hard liquor, is distilled alcohol: whisky, vodka, rum, gin, brandy, tequila. Covers distillation, history, categories, US and China markets, regulation, and health effects.
Liquor store
Liquor store: a retail shop selling packaged alcohol for off-premise consumption, an off-premise alcohol outlet. Covers US licensing, control versus license states, outlet density research, and privatization cases.