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Lithuanian cuisine
Lithuanian cuisine (lietuvių virtuvė): national cuisine built on rye, buckwheat, potatoes, mushrooms, and dairy; signature dishes cepelinai, šaltibarščiai, kibinai, šakotis; contested cepelinai origins; Soviet rupture and post-2004 revival.
Little black dress
Little black dress (LBD), a simple short black dress established by Coco Chanel in 1926 and dubbed the "Ford of Fashion" by American Vogue; a wardrobe staple evolving through Dior, Givenchy, Lagerfeld, and beyond.
Little Caesars
Little Caesars: American pizza chain founded 1959 by Mike and Marian Ilitch in Garden City, Michigan, headquartered in Detroit; known for Hot-N-Ready carryout pizza, Pizza! Pizza! slogan, third-largest pizza chain worldwide with 4,374 US units in 2025.
Liverwurst
Liverwurst (Leberwurst) is a spreadable German cooked sausage of precooked meat, fat, spices, and 10–35% liver; US law requires at least 30% liver, and Braunschweiger is its smoked American variant.
Liya Kebede (ሊያ ከበደ)
Liya Kebede (ሊያ ከበደ), Ethiopian supermodel born 1978 in Addis Ababa; first Black Estée Lauder model (2003), WHO maternal health ambassador (2005), founder of lemlem (2007) and the Lemlem Foundation, lead of Desert Flower (2009).
Liz Collins
Liz Collins (born 1968) is an American Brooklyn-based textile artist and former knitwear designer, RISD BFA/MFA, creator of Knitting Nation (2005–2016), subject of the first US survey Motherlode at the RISD Museum (2025–26), and a 60th Venice Biennale participant.
Lizzie Grover Rad
Lizzie Grover Rad is an American fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded Grover Rad, a Los Angeles womenswear brand, after co-founding the interior design startup Hutch.
Lloyd Kiva New
Lloyd Kiva New (1916–2002) was a Cherokee fashion designer and educator who built a Scottsdale fashion label and co-founded the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Lo mein
Lo mein (捞面, lāo miàn), Cantonese for "tossed noodles", is a Chinese dish of boiled wheat noodles mixed with sauce, vegetables, and meat; distinct from crisp chow mein and reshaped in American Chinese takeout.
Loblaw Companies
Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food and pharmacy retailer, founded 1919 in Toronto by Theodore Loblaw and incorporated 1956 under George Weston ownership; operates 2,400+ stores including Loblaws, No Frills, and Shoppers Drug Mart with about 28% grocery share.
Loblaws
Loblaws is the flagship supermarket banner of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food and pharmacy retailer, founded in Toronto in 1919 by Theodore Pringle Loblaw, controlled by George Weston Limited, with over 2,400 stores and an estimated 28% grocery market share.
Local food
Local food: food produced, processed, and sold within a defined area via short supply chains; no standard geographic definition exists. Evidence shows no inherent sustainability advantage over global food; outcomes depend on supply chain, product, and country.
Loco moco
Loco moco is a Hawaiian dish of white rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy, and a fried egg, invented in 1949 at the Lincoln Grill in Hilo and popularized by Cafe 100; it belongs to Hawaii's local, plantation-era food tradition, not pre-contact Native Hawaiian cuisine.
Locro
Locro (Quechua ruqru/lukru) is a thick Andean stew of maize, beans, and squash; Argentina's meat-rich patriotic version is eaten on 25 May and 9 July, while Ecuador's locro de papa is a potato-cheese soup.
Locust bean gum
Locust bean gum (carob bean gum, E 410), a galactomannan from Ceratonia siliqua seed endosperm, used as thickener and stabilizer; does not gel alone but synergizes with xanthan gum and kappa-carrageenan.
Lodi, California
Lodi, California: Central Valley city and namesake of the Lodi AVA, federally recognized 1986, about 550,000 acres with 82,000+ planted; seven sub-AVAs since 2006; known for old-vine Zinfandel, Tokay sandy loam, and LODI RULES sustainable certification.
Loewe (fashion brand)
Loewe (lo-weh-vay) is a Spanish luxury fashion house founded in Madrid in 1846, known for the Puzzle, Amazona, and Flamenco bags; owned by LVMH since 1996 and led since 2025 by Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez.
Loincloth
A loincloth, also called a breechcloth or breechclout, is a cloth worn around the loins, sometimes as the sole article of clothing in warm climates.
Loire Valley
Loire Valley (Val de Loire): French wine region along France's longest river, 42,000 ha, 34 PDOs plus IGP Val de Loire, from Muscadet and Chenin Blanc to Sancerre Sauvignon; UNESCO-listed middle Loire, third-largest French PDO wine region.
Lolita fashion (ロリータ・ファッション)
Lolita fashion, also known as Goth loli, is a Japanese street fashion featuring voluminous knee-length skirts held out by petticoats, inspired by Victorian and Rococo clothing.
Lollipop
Lollipop (lolly, sucker): hard candy on a stick, cooked to hard-crack from sugar, corn syrup, water and acids. Word dates to early 1800s Britain; stick candy after 1890; George Smith 1908.
Lolo Ferrari
Lolo Ferrari (Ève Geneviève Aline Vallois, 1963–2000), French dancer, pornographic actress, singer and Eurotrash presenter, Guinness-recorded for the world's largest breast implants; died in Grasse in 2000 amid a murder investigation of her husband Eric Vigne.
Lomi-lomi salmon
Lomi-lomi salmon, also called lomi salmon, is a traditional Hawaiian cold side dish of salt-cured salmon hand-massaged with tomato and onion, a fixture of luaus and plate meals.
London Beer Flood
The London Beer Flood was an 1814 industrial accident in which a giant vat of porter burst at a London brewery, killing eight people in the St Giles slum.
Long hair
Long hair is human scalp hair grown long via 5–7-year anagen follicle phases (up to 50–110 cm; record 5.627 m). Long associated with women since Greco-Roman antiquity, it has served as a political, religious, and gender symbol from the Qing queue to the 1960s.
Long Island iced tea
Long Island iced tea: IBA official cocktail of vodka, tequila, white rum, gin, triple sec, lemon, syrup, and cola; no tea. Created by Robert Butt at the Oak Beach Inn, New York, 1972; a Tennessee 1920s claim is disputed.
Long John Silver's
Long John Silver's is an American fast-food seafood and chicken chain founded in 1969 in Lexington, Kentucky, headquartered in Louisville, known for hand-battered Alaska pollock, hushpuppies, and Yum! Brands ownership from the 2000s to 2011.
Longaniza
Longaniza (Filipino longganisa) is a long, thin pork sausage of Spanish origin, descended from the Roman lucanica of Lucania. Unlike chorizo it is mostly paprika-free, tied as one long rope, and spans Spanish cured styles, Mexican regional versions with achiote, Dominican and Puerto Rican fresh styles, and sweet Filipino longganisa.
Longarm quilting
Longarm quilting is the finishing step that stitches a quilt's top, batting, and backing together on a large frame-mounted machine, with the machine head traveling over the fabric.
Longjing tea
Longjing tea (龙井茶, Dragon Well tea), especially West Lake Longjing (西湖龙井), is a flat pan-fired green tea from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with GI-protected Xihu, Qiantang, and Yuezhou zones, Qianlong's 18 imperial tea trees, and hand-fired spring harvests.