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Naengmyeon (냉면)
Naengmyeon (냉면, 冷麵), Korean cold noodles in chilled broth or spicy bibim dressing; a northern winter dish from Pyongyang and Hamheung that spread south after the Korean War, with mul and bibim styles, regional variants, and rising Seoul prices.
Naga shawls
Naga shawls are handwoven textiles made by the Naga peoples of Nagaland in northeast India, where patterns and colors record the wearer's tribe, clan, gender, and rank.
Nagi Maehashi
Nagi Maehashi, Australian food writer and founder of the RecipeTin Eats blog (2014), author of NYT bestseller Dinner (2022) and Tonight (2024), runs the RecipeTin Meals food bank.
Nailed It!
Nailed It! is a 2018 American baking competition series on Netflix, hosted by Nicole Byer and judged by pastry chef Jacques Torres, with a $10,000 prize.
Najeon chilgi (나전칠기)
Najeon chilgi (나전칠기), Korean mother-of-pearl lacquerware, inlays abalone or turban-shell nacre into lacquered wood; produced since Unified Silla, at its peak in Goryeo, a designated intangible cultural heritage craft since 1966.
Nakshi kantha
Nakshi kantha (নকশি কাঁথা) is a traditional embroidered quilt of Bengal, made by rural women who layer worn cloth and work decorative patterns into it with running stitches.
Namaste (नमस्ते)
Namaste (नमस्ते), also namaskar, is the Sanskrit greeting of the Indian subcontinent meaning "I bow to you," spoken with anjali mudra, palms joined at the chest; attested from the Rigveda and Natya Shastra, used across India and Nepal and globally through yoga.
Nampeyo
Nampeyo (c. 1856–1942) was a Hopi-Tewa potter of Hano village on First Mesa, Arizona, who revived the ancient Sikyatki style and is often called the first known Native American artist.
Nampeyo Pottery Designs (Sikyatki Revival Painted Ware)
Sikyatki Revival painted ware is a Hopi and Hopi-Tewa pottery style developed from the 1880s by Nampeyo of Hano, who reworked ancestral Sikyatki Polychrome designs into bold, asymmetrical compositions in red and black on yellow.
Nanabozho
Nanabozho, also spelled Nanabush or Manabozho, is the trickster and culture hero of the Anishinaabe peoples of the Great Lakes, known for the earth-diver story that formed Turtle Island.
Nanaimo bar
Nanaimo bar: Canadian no-bake three-layer dessert bar (crumb base, custard buttercream, chocolate top) named after Nanaimo, BC; first printed 1952 as "chocolate square", official recipe by Joyce Hardcastle since 1986.
Nanbu tetsubin
Nanbu tetsubin (南部鉄瓶) is a cast-iron kettle for boiling water made in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, hand cast in sand molds and designated a Traditional Craft in 1975.
Nancy Green
Nancy Green (1834-1923), born enslaved in Kentucky, was the first portrayer of Aunt Jemima, debuting at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair for R.T. Davis Milling Company; the brand was retired as a racial stereotype in 2020-2021.
Nancy Silverton
Nancy Silverton (born 1954) is a Los Angeles chef, baker, and restaurateur who founded La Brea Bakery and Campanile and co-owns the Mozza Restaurant Group.
Nancy Zieman
Nancy Zieman (1953–2017) was an American sewing author and host of Sewing With Nancy, the longest-running sewing series on television (1982–2017), and founder of the mail-order company Nancy's Notions.
Nando's
Nando's, a South African casual-dining chain founded in 1987 in Rosettenville, Johannesburg by Fernando Duarte and Robbie Brozin, serves flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken; privately held (Enthoven family), over 20 countries, distinct from Portuguese or British chains.
Nanjing cloud brocade
Nanjing cloud brocade (南京云锦, Nanjing Yunjin) is a richly patterned silk brocade woven in Nanjing, China, on large wooden drawlooms by two craftspeople working together.
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell, born 1970 in South London, is an English supermodel, the first Black cover model of Paris Vogue (1988) and TIME (1991), a member of the 1990s "Trinity" and "Big Six," subject of the V&A's NAOMI: In Fashion exhibition.
Naomi Pomeroy
Naomi Pomeroy (1974–2024) was a self-taught American chef in Portland, Oregon, founder of Beast, winner of the 2014 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northwest, and co-founder of the Independent Restaurant Coalition.
Napa Valley AVA
Napa Valley AVA, established January 27, 1981, is California's first American Viticultural Area and the second in the United States, containing 17 nested sub-AVAs including Howell Mountain, Oakville, and Crystal Springs of Napa Valley (2024).
Napapijri
Napapijri is an Italian outdoor-lifestyle apparel brand founded in 1987 in Aosta by Giuliana Rosset, named after the Finnish word for the Arctic Circle. Known for the Skidoo and Rainforest anoraks and Norwegian-flag logo, it has been owned by VF Corporation since 2004.
Nara Smith
Nara Aziza Smith, also called Nara Smith, is a South African-German model and TikTok lifestyle creator with over 12 million followers who makes from-scratch cooking videos in couture, wrote the cookbook Homemade, and rejects the tradwife label.
Nasi campur
Nasi campur ("mixed rice"), also called nasi rames or sega campur, is an Indonesian and Malay rice dish of steamed rice with small portions of varied side dishes; the Balinese version, Nasi Bali, features grilled tuna, lawar, and satay lilit, often in banana leaf.
Nasty Gal
Nasty Gal is an American women's fashion brand founded in 2006 by Sophia Amoruso as an eBay vintage store, grown to about $100 million in sales, bankrupt in 2016, sold to Boohoo for $20 million in 2017 and to WSG Brands for $16 million in 2026.
Nasu No Megumi Mekke
Nasu no Megumi Mekke! (那須の恵みMekke!) is a food complex at Rindo Lake Family Farm, Nasu, Tochigi, opened 2016 as a buffet and marche, now a Jersey-dairy marche with cafe.
Naswar (نسوار)
Naswar (نسوار), also niswar or nass, is a moist smokeless tobacco of powdered Nicotiana rustica, slaked lime and ash used under the tongue or in the cheek in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia; an estimated 18 million Pakistanis use it, with high oral cancer risk.
Natacha Rambova
Natacha Rambova, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, was an American ballet dancer, Hollywood art director and costume designer for Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino, later a fashion designer and Egyptologist with the Bollingen Foundation.
Natalie Glebova (Наталья Владимировна Глебова)
Natalie Glebova (Наталья Владимировна Глебова), born 1981 in Tuapse, Russia, is a Russian-born Canadian who won Miss Universe 2005 in Bangkok as Miss Canada, the second Canadian titleholder, later an author and pageant coach in Thailand.
Natasha Museveni Karugire
Natasha Museveni Karugire is a Ugandan fashion designer and filmmaker. She founded House of Kaine in 2003 and published the memoir What's in a name: Kainembabazi in 2020.
Nathan "Nearest" Green
Nathan "Nearest" Green (c. 1820, Maryland), also called Uncle Nearest, was the first known African-American master distiller, taught Jack Daniel the Lincoln County Process, and became Jack Daniel Distillery's first master distiller, honored today by Uncle Nearest whiskey.