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Mullet (haircut)
Mullet haircut: short hair on top and sides with long hair at the back, "business in the front, party in the back." Named by the Beastie Boys in 1994; peaked in the 1980s, revived since 2020.
Mulligatawny
Mulligatawny (milagu tannir, "pepper water") is an Anglo-Indian curry soup adapted by British cooks in colonial India from the thin South Indian Tamil broth rasam, later a staple of British cookbooks and Indian restaurants.
Mulukhiyah
Mulukhiyah (ملوخية), also molokhia or mloukhieh, is a viscous green soup of jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius) leaves in meat broth, finished with garlic-coriander taffeya in ghee; Egypt's national dish with distinct Levantine, Tunisian, Sudanese, and West African variants.
Mumbo sauce
Mumbo sauce, also spelled mambo sauce, is a sweet, tangy, mildly spicy red condiment of Washington, D.C. Chinese carryouts and Chicago barbecue joints; Chicago's Argia B. Collins created it circa 1950 and Select Brands holds the trademark.
Mummers Parade
Mummers Parade, Philadelphia New Year's Day folk parade since 1901, oldest continuous in the US; five divisions including String Band and Fancy Brigade, about 10,000 costumed performers on Broad Street.
Mumun pottery
Mumun pottery (무문토기, literally "no design") is the plain handmade earthenware that gives its name to Korea's Mumun period, dated about 1500 to 100 BC.
Mundu
Mundu (മുണ്ട്): Kerala's unstitched white or cream waist-wrap worn by men and women, distinguished from the dhoti by not passing between the legs and from the lungi by its formality; kasavu gold border marks festival wear.
Munroe Bergdorf
Munroe Bergdorf, British model, writer, and trans activist; first trans model in a L'Oréal UK campaign (2017), fired then rehired (2020); first trans UK Cosmopolitan cover (2022); memoir Transitional (2023).
Munster cheese
Munster (Munster-Géromé) is a French PDO soft washed-rind cow's milk cheese from the Vosges (Alsace/Lorraine), AOC since 1969, pungent Brevibacterium linens rind, mild paste, distinct from American Muenster.
Murtabak (مطبق)
Murtabak (مطبق, muṭabbaq, "folded") is a stuffed pan-fried flatbread with spiced minced meat, egg, and onion, from Arabia and Yemen, spread via Indian Ocean trade; called martabak in Indonesia, where martabak manis is a separate sweet pancake.
Musée de la mode et du textile
Musée de la mode et du textile: fashion and textile department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, inaugurated 1986 as Musée des Arts de la Mode, renamed 1997; over 150,000 pieces from Coptic textiles to couture.
Museo del Traje
Museo del Traje (Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico) is Spain's national costume museum in Madrid, founded by decree in 2004 but rooted in the 1925 Traje Regional exhibition; it holds over 160,000 garments spanning six centuries, including Balenciaga, Fortuny, and Marilyn Monroe's Seven Year Itch dress.
Museum collections and heritage designation of traditional dress in the Americas and Africa
Museum collections and heritage designation of traditional dress in the Americas and Africa covers how museums hold and exhibit traditional dress and how it is designated.
Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) in Vancouver, Canada: a public, research, and teaching museum founded in 1949, housed since 1976 in an Arthur Erickson building on Musqueam territory, with nearly 50,000 works and the finest collection of works by Bill Reid.
Museum of Food and Drink
The Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is a Brooklyn nonprofit museum founded by Dave Arnold in 2005, with exhibits visitors can taste, touch, and smell.
Muslin
Muslin: plain-weave cotton fabric ranging from sheer gauze to heavy sheeting; finest historic kind woven around Dhaka, Bengal, from phuti karpas cotton; name traced to Mosul, Masulipatnam, or French mousse; now also a Bangladeshi revival fabric.
Must
Must (moût, mosto, Most) is the unfermented or freshly fermenting mixture of grape juice, skins, seeds, and pulp used as winemaking's raw material, defined by OIV and national law, typically 70-80% water with glucose and fructose at 75-150 g/l each.
Mustard (condiment)
Mustard (condiment): paste or powder from crushed mustard seeds (Sinapis alba, Brassica juncea, B. nigra) mixed with liquid; myrosinase releases pungent isothiocyanates. Distinct from mustard the plant and mustard oil; includes Dijon, yellow, English, whole grain styles.
Mustard seed
Mustard seed: small seeds of Brassica nigra, B. juncea, and Sinapis alba used as spice, condiment, and oilseed. Pungency arises when myrosinase converts glucosinolates to isothiocyanates; heat, allergy, and erucic acid limits shape its use.
My Kitchen Rules
My Kitchen Rules (MKR) is an Australian Seven Network cooking competition running since 1 February 2010, in which teams of two home cooks serve scored three-course Instant Restaurant meals; judges have included Manu Feildel, Pete Evans, Colin Fassnidge, Nigella Lawson, and Matt Preston.
My Scene
My Scene is a line of fashion dolls produced by Mattel from 2002, featuring Barbie-brand characters with larger heads and urban styling, created to compete with Bratz.
Myntra
Myntra: Indian fashion and lifestyle e-commerce platform, founded 2007 in Bengaluru, owned by Flipkart since 2014. Largest Indian online fashion retailer, ~$3.9B gross sales (2023), app-first model, 20+ private labels, EORS sale events.
Mystery Diners
Mystery Diners is a Food Network reality series (2011–2016) hosted by Charles Stiles of Business Evaluation Services, in which undercover diners with hidden cameras investigate employee theft and misconduct in restaurants; 145 episodes, IMDb rating 3.7/10.
Naan (نان)
Naan (نان, nān) is the Persian word for bread and Iran's staple flat breads: taftoon, lavash, sangak, and barbari, baked in tanur ovens, supplying about 70% of daily calories.
Nabemono
Nabemono (鍋物, nabe) is Japanese hot pot: dishes cooked and eaten from a pot at the table, including sukiyaki, shabu-shabu, yosenabe, yudofu, and sumo's chanko nabe; a communal winter dish whose modern meat-based forms date to the Meiji era.
Nabisco
Nabisco, short for National Biscuit Company, is the American cookie and cracker brand founded in 1898, maker of Oreo, Ritz, and Chips Ahoy!, now owned by Mondelēz International after ownership by R.J. Reynolds, KKR, Philip Morris, and Kraft.
Nachos
Nachos: tortilla chips with melted cheese and jalapeños, invented in 1943 by Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, for US military wives; a defining Tex-Mex dish.
Nadeen Ayoub
Nadeen Ayoub, Palestinian model and Miss Earth Water 2022 (Miss Earth 2022), founder of the Miss Palestine (Sayidat Falasteen) and Olive Green Academy organizations, and the first woman to represent Palestine at Miss Universe 2025, placing in the top 30.
Nadia Ferreira
Nadia Ferreira (Nadia Tamara Ferreira-Muñiz), Paraguayan model and host, first runner-up at Miss Universe 2021 in Eilat, the highest placement for Paraguay; married Marc Anthony in 2023, mother of Marco and Myla Victoria.
Nadiya Hussain
Nadiya Hussain, born 1984 in Luton, is a British-Bangladeshi baker, TV presenter, and author who won The Great British Bake Off in 2015, then hosted BBC cookery series and wrote cookbooks, novels, and a memoir before leaving TV in 2025.