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Manhattan (cocktail)
The Manhattan is a classic American cocktail of whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters, stirred and served with a cherry, created around the 1880s in New York.
Manicure
Manicure: cosmetic care of fingernails and hands, covering polish, gel, acrylic, dip, and press-on systems, their history from ancient Egypt to the 1878 New York salon, and dermatologic risks.
Manika Vishwakarma
Manika Vishwakarma is an Indian model from Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, who won Miss Universe India 2025, represented India in the Top 30 at Miss Universe 2025 in Thailand, and founded Neuronova.
Manischewitz
Manischewitz, American kosher food brand founded 1888 in Cincinnati by Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz; food side owned by Kayco since 2019, wine brand licensed separately and owned by Gallo since 2021.
Manish Malhotra (मनीष मल्होत्रा)
Manish Malhotra (मनीष मल्होत्रा), Indian fashion designer and Bollywood costume stylist; debut Swarg (1990), first Filmfare Best Costume Design for Rangeela (1995), founded House of Manish Malhotra in 2005, Met Gala debut 2025.
Manjit Minhas
Manjit Minhas is a Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded Minhas Breweries, Distillery and Winery in 1999 and has been an investor on CBC's Dragons' Den since 2015.
Manolo Blahnik
Manolo Blahnik, Spanish-born London shoe designer (born 1942, Canary Islands), founded his eponymous label in 1970 after Diana Vreeland urged him to make shoes. Known for the Hangisi, BB, and Maysale classics, family-run production in Italy, CBE 2007, and Sex and the City fame.
Mansaf (منسف)
Mansaf (منسف), the Jordanian national festive dish: lamb or goat boiled in jameed dried-yogurt sauce over rice and shrak bread on a shared seder platter, eaten by hand. UNESCO-inscribed in 2022; served at weddings, funerals, Fridays, Eid al-Adha.
Manti (food)
Manti (mantı, mantu, mantou) is a family of filled wheat dumplings from Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Afghanistan: tiny boiled Turkish mantı with yogurt and browned butter, large steamed Uzbek manti, Afghan steamed mantu with split-pea sauce, and baked Armenian sini mantı.
Mantle of Muhammad
The Mantle of Muhammad, known in Turkish as Hırka-i Saadet, is a cloak venerated in Islam as a garment of the Prophet Muhammad, kept at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
Mantle of Roger II
The Mantle of Roger II is a semicircular ceremonial cloak made in the royal workshop of Palermo in 1133/34 for Roger II, king of Norman Sicily.
Mantou (馒头)
Mantou (馒头) is Chinese steamed bread, a fermented wheat staple of northern China, earliest attested in Western Jin texts; the Zhuge Liang origin legend is a later Song-era attribution, and related buns spread to Korea, Japan and Central Asia.
Manu Feildel
Manu Feildel, French-born chef from Nantes, Brittany, is co-host and judge of Australia's My Kitchen Rules since 2010. Trained in London (Cafe Royal, Livebait), he ran Bilsons (3 hats) and L'etoile in Sydney, won Dancing with the Stars 2011, and launched The Sauce By Manu.
Manuela Arbeláez
Manuela Arbeláez (Manuela Arbeláez Correa), Colombian-American model and actress born 1988 in Medellín; Price Is Right model since 2009, known for the 2015 $21,960 Five Price Tags car giveaway and her Manny Fuerte fitness program.
Manunggul Jar
Manunggul Jar: a National Cultural Treasure secondary burial jar in earthenware, 890–710 BC, 66.5 x 51.5 cm, from Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan, with a ship-of-the-dead lid of two figures rowing to the afterlife.
Manushi Chhillar (मानुषी छिल्लर)
Manushi Chhillar (मानुषी छिल्लर), Indian actress and Miss World 2017, crowned 18 November 2017 in Sanya, China; sixth Indian winner, first since Priyanka Chopra 2000; Femina Miss India 2017; film debut Samrat Prithviraj (2022).
Mao suit
Mao suit, Chinese Zhongshan suit (中山装), a tunic jacket with turn-down collar and four pockets named for Sun Yat-sen; adopted as Nationalist official dress in 1929, near-universal in Mao-era China, now worn mainly at state ceremonies.
Mao tofu (毛豆腐)
Mao tofu (毛豆腐), also called Huizhou or Huangshan hairy tofu, mei doufu, is a fermented tofu from Huangshan, Anhui, coated in white Mucor mycelium, coagulated with sour water, pan-fried, and listed as Anhui provincial intangible heritage in 2022.
Māori culture
Māori culture (Māoritanga) is the customs, practices, and beliefs of New Zealand's indigenous Māori people, Polynesian settlers who arrived before 1300 CE, shaped by the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, colonization, and a 20th-century cultural and language revival.
Māori traditional textiles
Māori traditional textiles: woven and plaited fibre arts of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, based on harakeke flax and muka fibre, using whatu finger twining, raranga plaiting, tāniko borders and tukutuku panels, producing prestige cloaks (kākahu) and practical baskets, mats and nets.
Maotai (茅台)
Maotai (茅台酒, Moutai) is China's sauce-aroma baijiu from Maotai town on the Chishui River, Guizhou, made from sorghum, wheat, and water via a one-year, nine-steaming process and five-year aging; produced by Kweichow Moutai (600519).
Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐)
Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, mabo dofu in Japan) is a Sichuan dish of soft tofu in a mala doubanjiang and Sichuan peppercorn sauce with minced meat, created in Chengdu around 1862 by Chen Mapo and adapted into milder Japanese versions from 1958.
Maqhan (café)
مقهئ (مقهى, maqhan) is the Arabic word for a café or coffeehouse. In older Iraqi usage the word casino meant a café or social venue, notably on Baghdad's Abu Nuwas Street, not a gambling hall.
Maraboutism
Maraboutism (المرابطية) is the veneration of saintly figures, living and dead, that became central to rural Islam in the Maghreb from the 11th century onward.
Maraschino
Maraschino is a colourless Dalmatian cherry liqueur made from marasca cherries and their pits, defined by EU law with minimum 250 g/L sugar, 24–32% ABV, central to the Aviation, Last Word, and Martinez cocktails.
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer, founder of Marc Jacobs International with Robert Duffy; famed for the 1992 Perry Ellis grunge collection and Louis Vuitton creative director 1997–2013; brand sold by LVMH to WHP Global and G-III in 2026.
Marc Summers
Marc Summers (born 1951, born Marc Berkowitz) is an American TV host who hosted Nickelodeon's Double Dare (1986–1994) and Food Network's Unwrapped (2001–2011), later producing Restaurant: Impossible and hosting the podcast Marc Summers Unwraps.
Marcel Grateau
Marcel Grateau (1852–1936) was a French hairdresser who created the Marcel Wave, a heated-iron waving technique so widespread that the waves were called "des Marcels" worldwide.
Marcela Valladolid
Marcela Valladolid, American chef and cookbook author born in San Diego and raised in Tijuana, hosted Food Network's Mexican Made Easy (2010) and The Kitchen, wrote six cookbooks including Familia, and now runs Casa Marcela, Inc. and Matriarca Foods.
Marco Pierre White
Marco Pierre White (born 1961), English chef and restaurateur from Leeds; first Briton and youngest chef to win three Michelin stars (1995, Hyde Park Hotel); mentor of Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal; retired 1999, returned his stars; author of White Heat.