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Azzedine Alaïa
Azzedine Alaïa (1935-2017) was a French-Tunisian couturier known for body-con stretch silhouettes, an off-calendar independent business model, the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa in Paris, and his fashion collection; the Alaïa house continues under Richemont.
B-52 (cocktail)
B-52 (cocktail): layered shot of equal parts coffee liqueur, Irish cream, and Grand Marnier, credited to Peter Fich, Banff Springs Hotel, 1977; named for the band The B-52s; IBA New Era drink.
Baba ghanoush
Baba ghanoush (بابا غنوج, baba ganoush, baba ghanouj) is a Levantine smoky eggplant dip of mashed charred eggplant with olive oil, lemon, and garlic, served in mezze; closely related to, and often conflated with, mutabbal.
Babka
Babka, also called krantz cake (עוגת קראנץ), is a sweet Eastern European Jewish yeast bread twisted with chocolate, cinnamon, or poppy seed filling; Polish in origin, chocolate-filled since New York, revived by 2010s bakeries.
Baby Guinness
Baby Guinness: an Irish layered shot of coffee liqueur (Kahlúa or Tia Maria) topped with a floated layer of Irish cream (Baileys), mimicking a miniature pint of Guinness stout; contains no beer, roughly 19-23% ABV, with disputed 1980s Dublin and 1907 origin stories.
Baby Ruth
Baby Ruth: American candy bar of peanuts, caramel, and nougat, created by Curtiss Candy Company, Chicago, circa 1920-1921 from the Kandy Kake bar; officially named for Ruth Cleveland but widely linked to Babe Ruth, who lost a 1931 trademark case; now Ferrero-owned.
Baby shower
Baby shower: a pre-birth party, also called a babyparty or kortar fashadura in some traditions, where family and friends give gifts to expectant parents; traditionally women-only, now often co-ed, with regional variants worldwide.
Babybel
Babybel is a Bel Group brand of individual portion snack cheese in red wax, created 1931; Mini Babybel, an edam-style four-ingredient cheese, launched mid-1970s and sells over 2 billion portions yearly in 50 countries.
Babycham
Babycham: British sparkling perry (pear cider), 6% ABV, created 1953 by Francis Showering in Shepton Mallet; first alcohol brand advertised on British TV; mascot is a fawn; bought back by the Showering family in 2021.
Babydoll
Babydoll: a short, loose women's nightgown with a fitted bust and empire seam flaring into a short skirt, usually sheer and sold with matching panties; coined in 1950s American English, attributed to designer Sylvia Pedlar's 1942 wartime short nightgowns, popularized by the 1956 film Baby Doll and later a recurring fashion-dress trend.
Bacalao al pil pil
Bacalao al pil pil (bakailaoa pil-pilean) is a Basque salt-cod dish: desalted cod with skin gently cooked in olive oil with garlic and chili, swirled so gelatin emulsifies the sauce, named for the bubbling 'pil pil' sound.
Bacardi
Bacardi: spirits company founded 1862 in Santiago de Cuba by Facundo Bacardí Massó, maker of BACARDÍ rum and owner of Bacardi Limited brands like PATRÓN, GREY GOOSE, and DEWAR'S.
Backstrap loom
A backstrap loom, in Spanish telar de cintura, is a portable frameless loom in which the weaver supplies tension by leaning against a waist strap. Used in the Americas for over 4,000 years.
Bacon
Bacon (培根) is cured, usually smoked pork, defined in the US as the cured belly of a swine carcass. Covers curing methods, nitrite limits, Chinese and regional variants, nutrition, and WHO Group 1 carcinogen classification.
Badkhn
A badkhn (בַּדְחָן) is a Jewish wedding entertainer and master of ceremonies who gladdens the bride and groom with rhymed verse, humor, and song, parallel to the court jester.
BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design
The BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design is an annual film award given by BAFTA to costume designers for films released in the United Kingdom.
Bagel
Bagel (Yiddish beygel, Polish bajgiel): ring-shaped bread from Jewish communities in Poland, boiled before baking for a chewy crust; first documented in Kraków in 1610, brought to New York and Montreal by Jewish immigrants, and mass-marketed by Lender's frozen bagels from 1962.
Bagna càuda
Bagna càuda (bagna caoda), the hot garlic-anchovy-olive oil dipping sauce of Piedmont, served warm in a terracotta fujot with cardoons; canonical 2005 recipe, salt-road history, Bagna Cauda Day festival.
Baguette
Baguette: long, slender French bread loaf of flour, water, salt and leaven or yeast; regulated by the 1993 French bread decree as baguette de tradition française and inscribed by UNESCO in 2022 as intangible cultural heritage.
Bahamian cuisine
Bahamian cuisine is the cooking tradition of The Bahamas, centered on queen conch and seafood, with dishes like conch salad, cracked conch, peas and rice, and chicken souse.
Baharat (بهارات)
Baharat (بهارات), the Arabic word for spices, is a warm ground blend central to Middle Eastern cooking, sold in the Levant as sabaa baharat, seven spices, and used on kofta, kebabs, stews, and rice.
Baijiu (白酒)
Baijiu (白酒) is China's traditional distilled grain spirit, made by solid-state fermentation with qu starter cultures and classified into aroma types (strong, sauce, light, rice), with strong-aroma baijiu holding about 70% of production.
Baileys Irish Cream
Baileys Irish Cream: Irish cream liqueur launched 1974 by Gilbeys of Ireland, blending Irish whiskey, dairy cream, and chocolate-vanilla flavors at 17% ABV; owned by Diageo, over 100 million bottles produced yearly in Ireland, sold in 150+ countries.
Bajabulise Thela
Bajabulise Thela (born 2003, KaNyamazane, Mpumalanga) is a South African model, flight attendant, and Mambane Foundation founder crowned Miss African Beauty Universe South Africa 2026 and set to compete at Miss Universe 2026 in Puerto Rico.
Baji Rout
Baji Rout (ବାଜି ରାଉତ) was a twelve-year-old boatman's son from Dhenkanal, Odisha, shot dead by police in 1938 after refusing to ferry an armed party across the Brahmani river.
Bak kut teh
Bak kut teh (肉骨茶, bah-kut-tê, rou gu cha), literally 'meat bone tea', is a Malaysian-Singaporean pork-rib herbal soup with no tea in it; styles include clear peppery Teochew and dark soy Hokkien/Klang versions, with a disputed origin.
Bake Off: The Professionals
Bake Off: The Professionals, originally Bake Off: Crème de la Crème, is a British baking competition where professional pastry chef teams compete in two challenges per episode.
Baked beans
Baked beans: white (navy/haricot) beans slow-cooked in sauce, sweet molasses style in North America, tomato-sauce tinned style in Britain; Boston-derived dish commercialized by Heinz from 1869.
Baked potato
Baked potato (jacket potato in the UK): a whole potato baked in its skin by dry heat until fluffy inside and crisp outside. Covers russet varieties, oven, microwave, and air fryer methods, nutrition, Victorian street-food history, and foil botulism safety.
Bakery
A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based foods baked in an oven, such as bread, cakes, pastries, and pies, ranging from small shops to automated plants.