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Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, American author and UC Berkeley journalism professor, wrote The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, How to Change Your Mind, and the 2026 consciousness book A World Appears.
Michael Solomonov (מיכאל סולומונוב)
Michael Solomonov (מיכאל סולומונוב, born 1978) is an Israeli-born American chef and restaurateur in Philadelphia; co-owner with Steven Cook of CookNSolo and Zahav, a James Beard Outstanding Restaurant winner, and a leading popularizer of modern Israeli cuisine in the United States.
Michael Symon
Michael Symon (born 1969, Cleveland) is an American chef and restaurateur behind Lola and Mabel's BBQ, a Food Network Iron Chef, former co-host of ABC's The Chew, and 2009 James Beard Best Chef: Great Lakes winner.
Michael Voltaggio
Michael Voltaggio, also known with brother Bryan as the Voltaggio brothers, is an American chef from Frederick, Maryland who won Top Chef Season 6, earned a Michelin star at Dry Creek Kitchen, opened Ink in Los Angeles, and co-owns Voltaggio Brothers Steak House.
Michel Lotito
Michel Lotito, known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mr Eat All"), was a French entertainer from Grenoble who ate metal and glass, including a whole Cessna 150 airplane between 1978 and 1980.
Michel Roux
Michel Roux (1941–2020), French chef and restaurateur, brother of Albert Roux; co-founded Le Gavroche (1967) and founded the Waterside Inn, Bray (1972), which holds three Michelin stars since 1985.
Michelada
Michelada, also called chelada or cerveza preparada, is a Mexican beer drink of beer, lime, and salt in a frosted glass, often with hot sauce, Worcestershire, Maggi, or Clamato; origin attributed variously to Michel Ésper in 1970s San Luis Potosí or a 1940s popularization.
Michèle Lamy
Michèle Lamy (born 1944, Jura, France) is a French cultural entrepreneur, former criminal defense lawyer, restaurateur, and artist; wife and business partner of Rick Owens, co-founder of Owenscorp, creator of Lamyland, HUNROD jewelry, and the band LAVASCAR.
Michelin Guide
The Michelin Guide (Guide Michelin) is Michelin's annual restaurant and hotel guide, launched free in 1900 to promote motoring; its anonymous inspectors award one to three stars, Bib Gourmands, Keys, and other distinctions worldwide.
Michelle Dee
Michelle Dee (Michelle Marquez-Dee), Filipino actress and beauty queen, daughter of Miss International 1979 Melanie Marquez; Miss World Philippines 2019 (Top 12 at Miss World 2019) and Miss Universe Philippines 2023 (Top 10 at Miss Universe 2023).
Mickey Finn (drugs)
Mickey Finn, or slipping someone a mickey, is slang for a drink secretly spiked with an incapacitating drug, classically chloral hydrate. Named for Chicago bartender Michael Finn, whose Lone Star Saloon closed in 1903 amid drugging-and-robbery allegations.
Microblading
Microblading, also called eyebrow embroidery or micro-stroking, is a semi-permanent cosmetic tattooing technique using a handheld row of fine needles to deposit pigment in hair-like brow strokes, lasting up to about 3 years.
Microfiber
Microfiber is a synthetic textile fiber finer than 1 denier or dtex, typically 0.1 to 1.0 dtex, made as polyester-polyamide blends for cleaning cloths, sportswear, filtration, and insulation; the term also covers plastic microfibers shed during laundry, a major microplastic source.
Microwave oven
A microwave oven is a kitchen appliance that cooks food by exciting water molecules with microwaves, invented by Percy Spencer at Raytheon in 1945 and now in over 96% of US households.
Middle Eastern cuisine
Middle Eastern cuisine is a collective label for foodways across the Levant, Anatolia, and the Arabian Peninsula. It includes diverse traditions like Levantine, Persian, and Turkish cooking.
Midriff
Midriff: the part of the torso between chest and waist, also called the diaphragm in anatomy; from Old English midhrif (mid + hrif, belly). Central to fashion history, midriff exposure moved from dance wear to mainstream apparel by the 1940s.
Mie goreng
Mie goreng (mi goreng, mee goreng, bakmi goreng) is Indonesia's stir-fried noodle dish: wheat-egg noodles wok-fried with kecap manis, garlic, shallots, vegetables, egg, and protein, with Chinese roots, Java/Sumatra/Sulawesi variants, and a famous instant version.
Migas
Migas ("crumbs") is an Iberian dish of soaked stale bread fried in olive oil or lard with garlic, paprika, and pork; in Mexico and Texas the name covers scrambled eggs with fried corn tortillas, distinct from chilaquiles.
Migros
Migros is Switzerland's largest retail cooperative group, founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Duttweiler with mobile grocery vans and converted to a customer-owned cooperative in 1941; known for alcohol-free stores, the Culture Percentage, and 2025 group sales of CHF 31.9 billion.
Mike and Ike
Mike and Ike: chewy fruit candy brand launched 1940 by Just Born of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Original Fruits has five FRUCHEWY flavors; famous for its 2012 mascot breakup campaign and theater-box sales leadership.
Mike the Tiger
Mike the Tiger is the live Bengal tiger mascot of LSU in Baton Rouge since 1936, begun with Mike I bought from the Little Rock Zoo for $750; Mike VII, from a Florida sanctuary, is the only live tiger on a U.S. college campus.
Mike's Hot Honey
Mike's Hot Honey is an American chili-infused honey brand founded in 2010 by Mike Kurtz at Paulie Gee's pizzeria in Brooklyn; made from honey, chili peppers, and vinegar, it leads the US hot honey category with retail, foodservice, and co-branded products.
Milanesa
Milanesa is a breaded, fried cutlet of meat named after Milan, brought to Argentina and Uruguay by Italian immigrants and now an everyday staple there.
Mild ale
Mild ale, a British ale style (dark mild, pale mild), is low in hop bitterness, low in carbonation, and 2.8-4.5% ABV per BJCP; once Britain's dominant beer, it declined from 1960 and survives through CAMRA's Mild Month.
Mile-high club
Mile-high club, also mile high club, slang for people who claim to have had sex during a flight; not a real organization. Founding legend: Lawrence Sperry's 1916 autopilot flight; term first recorded 1966.
Miles McMillan
Miles McMillan is an American model and painter who studied fine arts at NYU. He is known for his runway campaigns for Dior and his oil painting.
Milk bag
Milk bag, or bagged milk: a flexible polyethylene pillow pouch for pasteurized milk, standard in Canada as three 1.33 L pouches totalling 4 L. Introduced by DuPont of Canada in 1967, metrication spread it; lighter than jugs or cartons but often non-recyclable.
Milk chocolate
Milk chocolate: solid eating chocolate made with chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, and milk solids; invented by Daniel Peter in Vevey in 1875 using Nestlé condensed milk, perfected by Lindt's 1879 conching, defined by US and EU composition standards.
Milk mineral concentrate
Milk mineral concentrate is a dried dairy ingredient fractionated from whey or milk, rich in calcium (22% minimum) and phosphorus, subject of GRAS Notice GRN 376 by Armor Proteines and covered by the ADPI Milk Minerals Standard.
Milk protein hydrolysate
Milk protein hydrolysate: casein or whey protein broken into peptides by enzymatic hydrolysis; used in hypoallergenic infant formula, clinical nutrition, and functional foods; typically up to about 25% DH.