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Major appliance
Major appliance, also called white goods: large stationary household equipment such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, ranges, and dishwashers, distinguished from small appliances, with prewar basic designs, energy standards since 1975, and rising smart-appliance reliability issues.
Makeup of Donald Trump
Makeup of Donald Trump: the reported cosmetics routine of the US president, including self-applied orange bronzer (Bronx Colors), spray-tan debate, and hand concealer used since 2024 to cover bruising attributed to handshaking and aspirin.
Makro
Makro is a cash-and-carry wholesale brand founded in Amsterdam in 1968 by SHV with METRO, serving HoReCa and traders; now run regionally by Metro (Europe), Tesco's Booker (UK), Massmart/Walmart (South Africa), and CP Axtra (Thailand, Philippines).
Mala xiang guo (麻辣香锅)
Mala xiang guo (麻辣香锅), also called spicy dry pot, is a Chongqing-Sichuan stir-fry where diners pick raw meats, seafood, and vegetables that are wok-fried in numbing Sichuan peppercorn and chili oil, with no broth, unlike mala hot pot.
Malanggan
Malanggan, also spelled Malagan or Malangan, is the name for the carved funerary effigies and commemorative mortuary ceremonies of northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
Malay cuisine
Malay cuisine (Masakan Melayu) is the traditional halal cooking of ethnic Malays across Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, southern Thailand, and Indonesia's Sumatra and Kalimantan, built on rice, coconut, rempah spice paste, and 13th-century trade-influenced dishes like nasi lemak, rendang, and laksa.
Malaysian cuisine
Malaysian cuisine, also called Malaysian cooking or masakan Malaysia, is the rice- and coconut-milk-based, halal-influenced fusion of Malay, Chinese, Indian, Arab, and Persian food traditions, known for nasi lemak, rendang, laksa, satay, and Nyonya dishes.
Malbec
Malbec (Côt, Auxerrois) is a black wine grape from South-West France, the grape of Cahors' "black wine" and, since the 19th century, Argentina's flagship variety, with 46,890 Argentine hectares and most world plantings.
Malia Jones
Malia Jones (born 1977) is the American surfer, model, and swimwear designer, U.S. Women's Amateur Surfing champion at 15, who founded the Malia Jones swimwear line; distinct from several other people of the same name.
Malibu (rum)
Malibu is a coconut-flavored, rum-based liqueur at 21% ABV, created in the late 1970s from a South African drink and launched in the UK in 1980, owned by Pernod Ricard.
Malolactic fermentation
Malolactic fermentation (MLF, malolactic conversion) is a bacterial winemaking process in which Oenococcus oeni converts L-malic acid to softer lactic acid and CO2, raising pH, adding diacetyl, and improving stability.
Malt liquor
Malt liquor: a stronger-than-lager North American beer style (5.5–8% ABV) brewed with corn, rice, or sugar adjuncts and sold in large 40 oz containers; a marketing term, legally classified as beer, born in the late 1930s and known for Colt 45 and St. Ides.
Malted milk
Malted milk is a dried whole-milk powder blended with malted barley extract and wheat flour, invented in 1873 by the Horlick brothers, patented 1883, first sold as Diastoid, later the soda-fountain malt and Horlicks bedtime drink.
Maltese cuisine
Maltese cuisine, the cooking of Malta and Gozo, is a Mediterranean tradition shaped by Sicilian, Arab, Knights-era French, and British influences; known for stuffat tal-fenek rabbit stew, pastizzi, ftira, and a growing MICHELIN-starred restaurant scene.
Maltesers
Maltesers are Mars's British chocolate-malt balls: honeycomb centres in milk chocolate, created by Forrest Mars Sr. in 1936, first sold 1937 as "energy balls," slogan "the lighter way to enjoy chocolate."
Maltodextrin
Maltodextrin: nonsweet D-glucose polymer mixture from partial starch hydrolysis, dextrose equivalent below 20, 4 kcal/g, digested as fast as glucose (GI about 105–110), used as a food ingredient; distinct from resistant (fiber) maltodextrin.
Malvasia
Malvasia (Malvoisie, Malvazija): not a single grape but a large Mediterranean family of mostly white Vitis vinifera varieties named after Monemvasia, making dry, sparkling, and sweet wines across Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal.
Mama Cax
Mama Cax (Cacsmy Brutus), Haitian-American model, blogger, and disability rights advocate who walked NYFW runways on a prosthetic leg, appeared on a 2018 Teen Vogue cover, worked with Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive and Savage X Fenty, and died in 2019 at 30.
Mama Huaco
Mama Huaco is one of the four ancestral sisters of Inca origin mythology, a warrior figure who helped found Cuzco in Sarmiento de Gamboa's 1572 account.
Mama Juana
Mama Juana (mamajuana, damajuana) is a Dominican liqueur of rum, red wine, honey, and tree bark and herbs, about 30% ABV, rooted in a Taíno herbal tea; sold ready-to-drink or as refillable DIY kits.
Mamak stall
Mamak stall (kedai mamak): an Indian Muslim-run Malaysian eatery serving roti canai, teh tarik, nasi kandar and mee goreng, typically open late or 24 hours; a national social institution for interethnic gathering, distinct from the Chinese kopitiam.
Man of the World 2026
Man of the World 2026, the eighth edition of the Philippine-founded international male pageant, was won June 6, 2026 in Manila by Oliver Eugen Kretz, the first Filipino titleholder, succeeding Spain's Juul Missiaen.
Man v. Food
Man v. Food is an American food reality series, premiered December 3, 2008 on Travel Channel with Adam Richman, revived 2017 with Casey Webb on Cooking Channel, last episode November 8, 2022, now revived as Men v. Food with Fitzpatrick and Wilfork.
Manakish (مناقيش)
Manakish (مناقيش), also called Manaeesh or Man'oushe, is a Levantine flatbread topped with za'atar, cheese, or spiced meat, baked at high heat, and sold hot at dawn from neighborhood bakeries across Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.
Manasvi Mamgai
Manasvi Mamgai (मनस्वी ममगई), Indian model, actor, and producer; Miss India World 2010, Miss World 2010 contestant, Bollywood debut Action Jackson (2014), Hulu's The Trial, founder of SAMA and 32Red Entertainment.
Manchego
Manchego (Queso Manchego) is Spain's PDO-protected hard sheep cheese, made only from Manchega ewe milk in Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, and Toledo, aged at least 30-60 days, distinct from imitators by its regulation.
Mandarin square
The mandarin square, or buzi (补子), is an embroidered rank badge sewn onto the robes of civil and military officials in Ming and Qing dynasty China, with birds for civil and beasts for military ranks.
Maneet Chauhan
Maneet Chauhan, Indian American chef and restaurateur in Nashville, judge on Chopped since 2010 and two-time Tournament of Champions winner; founder of Morph Hospitality Group and author of Chaat.
Maneki-neko (招き猫)
Maneki-neko (招き猫), also called lucky cat or zhaocai mao, is a Japanese Edo-period figurine of a seated cat with one raised paw; right paw beckons money, left paw customers, with color meanings and Gotokuji temple legends.
Mango (retailer)
Mango (Mango Fashion Group) is a Barcelona-founded Spanish fashion retailer started in 1984 by Isak and Nahman Andic, with Woman, Man, Kids, Teen, and Home lines, 2,900+ stores in 120 markets, €3.8bn 2025 turnover, and 78% international sales.