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Menu
Menu (bill of fare, carte): the listed offering of dishes and drinks with prices at a food-service establishment. Origins in Song-dynasty China and 1760s Paris; covers design history, menu engineering, digital formats, and allergen-labeling requirements.
Menudo (soup)
Menudo (also pancita, mondongo) is a Mexican soup of slow-cooked beef stomach in dried-chile broth, often with hominy; called menudo in the north, pancita in the center, mondongo in the south, with a hangover-cure reputation and probable Spanish callos origin.
Mercury dime
Mercury dime (Winged Liberty Head dime), U.S. ten-cent coin 1916–1945 by Adolph A. Weinman; 90% silver, fasces reverse, key dates 1916-D, 1921, 1921-D, replaced 1946 by Roosevelt dime.
Mere pounamu
Mere pounamu are short hand clubs carved by Māori from pounamu, New Zealand nephrite jade, and were the most valuable greenstone items in traditional Māori society.
Meringue
Meringue: whipped egg whites and sugar foam used in pavlova, lemon meringue pie, and baked Alaska; three types (French, Swiss, Italian) differing in heat application; name first printed in Massialot 1691, etymology unknown.
Merkin
A merkin, also called a pelvic toupée, is a pubic wig, first recorded in English in 1617 and used today mainly in film and theater nude scenes.
Merlot
Merlot, black Vitis vinifera wine grape from southwest France; Cabernet Franc × Magdeleine Noire des Charentes; majority grape of Bordeaux (60% of appellation area), early ripening, base of Pomerol's Pétrus.
Meroitic pottery
Meroitic pottery is the ceramic ware of the Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush, about 300 BC to AD 350, combining Egyptian and Hellenistic motifs with Nubian forms.
Mervyn's
Mervyn's (Mervyns) was a California midrange department store chain founded by Mervin G. Morris in 1949, owned by Dayton Hudson/Target 1978-2004, then Cerberus, Sun Capital and Lubert-Adler; it filed bankruptcy in July 2008, liquidated all stores by January 2009, and the name was relaunched as an online-only store.
Mesquite wood extract
Mesquite wood extract (CAS 93165-66-3, FEMA 3942) is an alcoholic Prosopis wood-chip extract used as a smoky, woody flavoring agent, GRAS via GRN 18 for distilled spirits.
Metro AG
Metro AG, German food wholesaler (METRO/MAKRO cash-and-carry) founded 1964 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, serving HoReCa and Traders in over 30 countries; €32.4 billion sales in FY2024/25, delisted 2026 after Kretinsky takeover.
Metro Inc.
Metro Inc., also known as Métro-Richelieu, is a Canadian food and pharmacy retailer headquartered in Montreal and one of Canada's three largest grocery chains, alongside Loblaw and Sobeys.
Mett
Mett, also called Hackepeter or Schweinemett, is a German specialty of seasoned raw minced pork eaten raw on bread rolls (Mettbrötchen) with raw onion, sold same-day under strict German rules, with the Mettigel hedgehog as its party form.
Meunière sauce
Meunière sauce (beurre meunière), French brown butter sauce with lemon juice and parsley, spooned over flour-dusted fish pan-fried in butter; sole meunière is the classic version, with a richer Creole variant in New Orleans.
Mexia Supermarket
Mexia Supermarket was a 36,000-square-foot independent grocer at 3900 Hemphill Street, Fort Worth, Texas (not Mexia, Texas), opened late 1998 by Advance Investment Corp., bankrupt in 1999, abandoned with rotting food, cleaned up by the city, later a Dollar General.
Mexican Coke
Mexican Coke is Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico with cane sugar and glass bottles, imported to the US since 2005 as an alternative to US Coke's high-fructose corn syrup, with mixed blind taste-test results.
Mexican cuisine
Mexican cuisine: the maize-based culinary tradition of Mexico, defined by corn, beans, chilies, and squash, nixtamalization, colonial Spanish mestizaje, UNESCO 2010 heritage status, and a modern Michelin-starred, sustainability-focused restaurant scene.
Mezcal
Mezcal (Nahuatl mexcalli) is a Mexican distilled agave spirit, 100% agave under NOM-070-SCFI-2016, with a Denomination of Origin since 1994, produced mainly in Oaxaca, distinguished from tequila by agave variety and smoky pit-cooking.
Mezcal worm
The mezcal worm (gusano de maguey) is the larva of the agave redworm moth Comadia redtenbacheri placed in some mezcal bottles since the 1940s as a marketing addition; it is never used in tequila.
Meze
Meze (mezze, maza; Turkish meze, Greek mezedes) is the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern tradition of small shared dishes served in waves with drinks such as rakı, ouzo, or arak, distinct from tapas and antipasto in its hospitality etiquette and open-ended, conversation-paced meal structure.
MGI All Stars 2nd Edition
MGI All Stars 2nd Edition, the second MGI All Stars pageant by Miss Grand International, is set for December 12, 2026 in Bangkok; applications opened June 6, 2026, for women and transgender women aged 20-40 with prior international pageant experience, with first-edition winner Vanessa Pulgarín of Colombia defending.
Mia Tyler
Mia Tyler (Mia Abagale Tallarico), born 1978 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, is an American plus-size model, actress, author, and photographer, daughter of Steven Tyler and Cyrinda Foxe and half-sister of Liv Tyler; H&M campaign face, 2008 memoirist, RIFF exhibitor.
Michael Caines
Michael Caines (born 1969, Exeter) is a British Michelin-starred chef and hotelier, known for Gidleigh Park's two stars, Lympstone Manor, and Michael Caines at The Stafford in London.
Michael Cardew
Michael Cardew (1901–1983) was an English studio potter who trained with Bernard Leach, ran Winchcombe Pottery in Gloucestershire from 1926, and founded the Pottery Training Centre at Abuja in Nigeria.
Michael Chow (restaurateur)
Michael Chow (周英華), born Zhou Yinghua in 1939 in Shanghai, son of Peking opera master Zhou Xinfang, is the British-Chinese restaurateur who founded the MR CHOW restaurants, starting in London in 1968, and later returned to painting.
Michael Costello (fashion designer)
Michael Costello, American fashion designer and Project Runway season 8 contestant (2010, fourth place), known for celebrity-worn evening gowns, his Revolve and Saks Fifth Avenue lines, and 2023 photo-alteration allegations.
Michael Jackson (beer writer)
Michael Jackson, known as the Beer Hunter, was a British journalist whose books on beer and whisky sold over three million copies and shaped craft brewing.
Michael James (quilt artist)
Michael James (born 1949, New Bedford, Massachusetts), also Michael F. James, is an American studio quilt artist and author of The Quiltmaker's Handbook who helped establish the art quilt movement, taught at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and returned to painting in 2024.
Michael Kors
Michael Kors, born Karl Anderson Jr. in 1959, is the American designer of the namesake luxury brand founded in 1981, a former Celine creative director, Project Runway judge, and CFDA award winner, now owned by Capri Holdings.
Michael O'Hare (chef)
Michael O'Hare, Leeds chef from Redcar whose The Man Behind The Curtain won a Michelin star in 2015; after Psycho Sandbar closed and the company entered insolvency, he opened In Lamentation in Boston Spa in 2026.