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Associated British Foods
Associated British Foods plc (ABF), British diversified food, ingredients and retail group founded 1935 by Garfield Weston; owns Primark, Twinings, British Sugar. £19.5bn revenue, 138,000 employees, 56 countries; Primark demerger planned by end 2027.
Atarashiki-mura
Atarashiki-mura (新しき村, "New Village") is an agricultural community founded in Japan in 1918 by the Shirakaba school writer Mushakoji Saneatsu as a practical realization of his humanist ideals.
Atashkadeh
Atashkadeh (آتشکده), Persian for "house of fire," is a Zoroastrian fire temple where an ever-burning sacred fire is maintained; the cult dates to the 4th century BCE.
Athleisure
Athleisure is casual clothing for exercise and everyday use. Merriam-Webster added the term in 2016, and the market is projected to reach USD 892.5 billion by 2033.
Ati-Atihan festival
Ati-Atihan (Kalibo Señor Santo Niño Ati-atihan Festival) is an annual third-Sunday-of-January festival in Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines, honoring the Santo Niño with soot-painted sadsad street dancing, distinct from Dinagyang and Sinulog.
Atmanivedan
Atmanivedan (आत्मनिवेदन) is the ninth and final form of devotion in the navavidha bhakti scheme taught by the 17th-century Marathi saint Samarth Ramdas in the Dasbodh, meaning complete self-surrender to God.
Atole
Atole (Nahuatl atolli) is a pre-Hispanic hot maize beverage from Mexico, Guatemala, and Central America, made by boiling nixtamalized masa in water or milk; champurrado is its chocolate version, traditionally served with tamales.
Au Bon Pain
Au Bon Pain is a Boston-based fast-casual bakery-café chain founded by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich, whose parent became Panera Bread in 1999; now owned by Ampex Brands with 250+ cafés in hospitals, universities, and airports.
Au jus
Au jus (French, 'with juice') describes meat, especially roast beef, served with its own thin, unthickened pan juices, or in American usage the sauce itself; unlike gravy it is never thickened with flour or dairy.
Auchan
Auchan: French international retail group founded 1961 by Gérard Mulliez in Roubaix, owned by the Mulliez family; hypermarkets, supermarkets, Alcampo; about 9% French market share, restructuring since 2024.
Audra Mari
Audra Diane Mari (born 1994, Fargo, North Dakota) is an American model and TV host, Miss World America 2016, Miss USA 2014 first runner-up, Miss World 2016 Top 11 and Miss World Americas, and wife of actor Josh Duhamel.
Auguste Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935) was a French chef who modernized haute cuisine through Le Guide Culinaire (1903) and the kitchen brigade system, working with César Ritz at the Savoy and Carlton.
Aunt Jemima
Aunt Jemima was an American pancake-mix and syrup brand created in 1889 by the Pearl Milling Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, sold by Quaker Oats and PepsiCo, and rebranded Pearl Milling Company in 2021 after criticism of its minstrel-derived mammy imagery.
Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's is an American soft pretzel franchise founded in 1988 by Anne Beiler at a Downingtown, Pennsylvania farmers' market, franchised from 1989, now owned by GoTo Foods with 1,200+ locations in 20+ countries.
Australia Day
Australia Day, 26 January, is Australia's national public holiday marking the 1788 raising of the Union Jack at Sydney Cove; also called Invasion Day or Survival Day by First Nations people, and the subject of a long-running change-the-date debate.
Australian Chinese cuisine
Australian Chinese cuisine is the distinct tradition of Chinese food developed in Australia since 1850s goldfields cookshops, known for dim sims, long soup, and short soup.
Australian cuisine
Australian cuisine: the fusion food culture of Australia, blending native bush ingredients (lemon myrtle, wattleseed, macadamia) with British, European, and Asian influences; known for meat pies (270 million a year), lamingtons, barbecues, and café coffee culture, without a single unified national cuisine.
Australian wine
Australian wine is produced across 65 regions by some 2,156 wineries, ranking Australia fifth in global production, led by Shiraz and Chardonnay and exported chiefly to China.
Austrian cuisine
Austrian cuisine (Wiener Küche): Habsburg-era national cooking blending Bohemian, Hungarian, Italian and Alpine traditions; schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Mehlspeisen like Sachertorte, coffee houses, Heuriger, and distinct regional dishes across nine federal states.
Authentic Brands Group
Authentic Brands Group (ABG, Authentic), founded 2010 by Jamie Salter in New York, is a brand management and licensing firm owning 50+ brands including Reebok, Champion, Guess and Elvis Presley, licensing IP to 1,700+ partners for over $38 billion in annual systemwide retail sales; Matt Maddox became CEO in 2026.
Autopen
Autopen: a mechanical signing machine that holds a real pen and replays a stored signature matrix. Used by US presidents since Truman; first used to sign a law by Obama in 2011; center of the 2025 Biden pardon controversy.
Aviation American Gin
Aviation American Gin, also known as Aviation Gin, is an American gin launched in 2006 in Portland, Oregon, and co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds from 2018.
Avocado toast
Avocado toast, also known as smashed avocado, is a dish of crushed avocado on toasted bread, popularized by Australian café culture and Bill Granger around 1993.
Ayesha Curry
Ayesha Curry (born 1989, Toronto) is a Canadian-American TV personality, cookbook author, and entrepreneur, wife of Stephen Curry. Known for Food Network's Ayesha's Home Kitchen, The Seasoned Life, International Smoke with Michael Mina, and the Sweet July brand.
Ayesha Nurdjaja
Ayesha Nurdjaja is a Brooklyn-born chef of Italian-Indonesian heritage, executive chef and partner of NYC Eastern Mediterranean restaurants Shuka and Shukette, a James Beard finalist, Food Network's Bobby's Triple Threat Titan, and author of Mediterranean All the Way.
Ayni
Ayni is a Quechua word for reciprocal labor exchange, where work given is repaid later in equal kind, a core Andean value predating the Inca Empire.
Ayran
Ayran, a cold salted yogurt drink of Turkish origin made from yogurt, water, and salt; also called doogh, tahn, dhallë, or ariani; Turkey's national non-alcoholic beverage with Codex and Turkish Food Codex standards.
Ayyari
Ayyari (عیاری) is the medieval Iranian practice of the ayyaran, urban brotherhoods remembered as chivalric heroes in Persian romance and as raiders of the 8th to 12th centuries.
AzMarie Livingston
AzMarie Livingston (Ashley Marie Livingston, born 1986) is an American model, actress, DJ, and singer, a Cycle 18 America's Next Top Model contestant eliminated for refusing butt pads, later Chicken in Empire and Ricki in DTLA.
Aztec featherwork
Aztec featherwork (Nahuatl amantecayotl) was the prestigious Nahua craft of gluing dyed feathers to a paper support or tying them into mosaics, shields, and headdresses, flourishing 1428–1521.