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Ranveer Brar (रणवीर सिंह बराड़)
Ranveer Brar (रणवीर सिंह बराड़), born 1978 in Lucknow, is an Indian celebrity chef, MasterChef India judge, restaurateur (Kashkan, Dubai), YouTube host with over seven million followers, and actor in Modern Love Mumbai and The Buckingham Murders.
Rao's
Rao's, founded 1896 in East Harlem by Charles Rao, is a ten-table Italian-American restaurant famed for lemon chicken and inherited standing table rights; its Rao's Homemade sauce brand went to Campbell's in 2024, distinct from the unrelated Rao's score test in statistics.
Ras malai (रस मलाई)
Ras malai (रस मलाई, rosh malai) is a chilled South Asian dessert of chhena cheese patties cooked in sugar syrup and soaked in thickened cardamom-saffron milk; origin is claimed by K.C. Das of Kolkata and by Comilla's Matri Bhandar.
Rasgulla
Rasgulla (Bengali roshogolla, Odia rasagola) is a spongy chhena sweet boiled in sugar syrup. West Bengal's version is credited to Nobin Chandra Das (1868); Odisha ties its version to Puri's Jagannath Temple ritual. Both hold separate GI tags (2017, 2019).
Rash guard
Rash guard (rashie): a close-fitting polyester/spandex shirt worn in and near water. Invented by 1970s Australian surfers against surfboard-wax rash; now rated UPF 50+ for UV protection, distinct from loose swim shirts, and standard wear in BJJ no-gi grappling.
Rasht embroidery
Rasht embroidery (rashti-duzi, Rasht work) is a Gilan, Iran craft of silk chain stitch worked with a crochet hook on felted wool, combined with inlaid patchwork; peaked under the Qajars, now intangible heritage.
Ratatouille
Ratatouille (ratatouille niçoise) is a Provençal stew of eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onions and tomatoes in olive oil, from Nice; first named in 1831, first fully recorded by Heyraud in 1903, and made famous internationally by the 2007 Pixar film's confit byaldi version.
Ratner's
Ratner's was a kosher dairy restaurant at 138 Delancey Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, founded in 1905 by Jacob Harmatz and Alex Ratner and run by the Harmatz family until its 2002 closing, famous for blintzes, onion rolls, and surly waiters.
Ravelry
Ravelry is a free online community, pattern database, and marketplace for knitters, crocheters, and other fiber artists, launched in 2007 by Casey and Jessica Forbes, with over 9 million members and no official mobile app.
Ravenstail weaving
Ravenstail weaving (Tlingit: yéil koowú) is a Northwest Coast Indigenous finger-twined tradition of black-and-white geometric ceremonial robes, practiced until the early 1800s and revived in the 1980s.
Ravioli
Ravioli (singular raviolo) are Italian filled pasta: two sheets of dough sealed around meat, cheese, vegetable, or fish filling, then boiled or fried. Distinguished from tortellini and agnolotti by construction; documented from the medieval Liber de coquina onward.
Raw milk
Raw milk is unpasteurized milk, or milk not heat-treated to kill germs such as Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella. Also called unpasteurized milk, it caused over 2,600 illnesses in 1998–2018 US outbreaks and offers no proven nutritional advantage.
Rax Roast Beef
Rax Roast Beef, also called Rax Restaurants, is a roast-beef fast-food chain founded 1967 in Springfield, Ohio by Jack Roschman, peaking at 504 stores in the mid-1980s; six Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois locations remain under Richard Donohue.
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc (1902–1984), American businessman who built McDonald's into the world's largest restaurant franchise; joined as franchise agent in 1954, opened Des Plaines restaurant 1955, bought the McDonald brothers out for $2.7 million in 1961.
Ray-Ban Wayfarer
Ray-Ban Wayfarer: plastic sunglasses designed by Raymond Stegeman for Bausch & Lomb in 1952. Acetate RB2140 Original and nylon RB2132 New Wayfarer differ in lens depth; also the base of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc is a French self-taught chef and restaurateur based in Britain, best known for Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxfordshire, which has held two Michelin stars since 1984.
Rayon
Rayon, also known as viscose fibre, is a semi-synthetic textile fiber of regenerated cellulose made from wood pulp. Its cool, silky feel suits it to clothing and upholstery.
RC Cola
RC Cola, also known as Royal Crown Cola or Chero-Cola, is an American cola soft drink created in 1905 in Columbus, Georgia, and renamed Royal Crown Cola in 1934.
Ready-to-wear
Ready-to-wear, or prêt-à-porter, is clothing made in pre-established standard sizes and produced in series for sale off the rack, as opposed to made-to-measure or bespoke garments cut for a single client.
Real-life superhero
Real-life superhero (RLSH): a person adopting an original costumed superhero persona for community service, patrols, and outreach. Movement emerged mid-2000s after figures like 1974's Captain Sticky; studied as contested vigilantism.
Recho Omondi
Recho Omondi: American designer of Kenyan heritage, founder of the OMONDI label (2013), creator and host of the fashion podcast The Cutting Room Floor (2018), dissolved the label in 2020, known for the viral 2025 Steve Madden interview.
Recipe
Recipe: a set of instructions plus ingredient list for preparing a dish; from Latin 'take'. Oldest examples are Babylonian cuneiform tablets (c. 1730 BCE); modern format standardized by Fannie Farmer (1896) and Schema.org markup online.
Rectified spirit
Rectified spirit, also called neutral spirit or ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin, is highly purified ethanol from repeated distillation (rectification), typically 95 to 96 percent ABV, tasteless, and used as the base for vodka, gin, and liqueurs.
Red bean paste
Red bean paste (anko/an, dòushā, danpat/pat) is a sweetened paste of adzuki beans and sugar, the core filling of East Asian sweets: Japanese koshian and tsubuan wagashi, Chinese mooncakes, Korean patbingsu.
Red Bull
Red Bull is an Austrian energy drink launched April 1, 1987 by Dietrich Mateschitz with Thai partner Chaleo Yoovidhya, adapted from Krating Daeng; 13.969 billion cans were sold in 2025.
Red Bull GmbH
Red Bull GmbH, founded 1984 in Austria by Dietrich Mateschitz and Chaleo Yoovidhya, is the private Fuschl am See company behind Red Bull Energy Drink, launched 1987, sold in 178 countries, owned 51% by the Yoovidhya family and 49% by the Mateschitz heirs.
Red Dress (embroidery project)
The Red Dress is a 14-year collaborative embroidery artwork (2009-2023) by British artist Kirstie Macleod: 87 burgundy silk dupion panels embroidered by 380 contributors from 51 countries with 1-1.5 billion stitches, a Guinness World Record holder distinct from the REDress Project.
Red envelope
Red envelope (hongbao, ang pow, lai see): cash gift in a red paper envelope given at Chinese New Year, weddings, and other occasions; traced to Han-dynasty charms, digitized by WeChat's 2014 Red Packet with billions of transactions.
Red Hat Society
The Red Hat Society (RHS) is a worldwide women's social club founded in 1998 by Sue Ellen Cooper, known for members wearing red hats with purple clothing.
Red Leicester
Red Leicester, formerly Leicester or Leicestershire cheese, is an English hard cow's milk cheese from Leicestershire, dyed orange with annatto, milder and flakier than Cheddar. Raw milk clothbound farmhouse production died out in 1956 and was revived in 2005 at Sparkenhoe Farm.