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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (born 1987), British model, actress, and founder of Rose Inc; Victoria's Secret Angel and face of Burberry Body; starred in Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Rosie Lee Tompkins
Rosie Lee Tompkins, pseudonym of Effie Mae Howard (1936-2006), was an African American improvisational quiltmaker of Richmond, California, discovered by collector Eli Leon, shown in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and celebrated in a 2020 BAMPFA retrospective.
Ross Stores
Ross Stores, Inc., known for its Ross Dress for Less brand, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1982 and headquartered in Dublin, California, with over 2,200 stores.
Roti (रोटी)
Roti (रोटी), also called chapati or phulka, is an unleavened whole wheat flatbread cooked on a tawa and eaten across South Asia with dal and curries; distinct from layered paratha and leavened tandoor naan, with 30-plus regional varieties and diaspora forms.
Roti canai
Roti canai, called roti prata in Singapore, is a Malaysian flaky griddled flatbread descended from South Indian parotta, brought by Indian-Muslim migrants to Penang in the 19th century, ranked first bread in the world by TasteAtlas in 2023.
Rotisserie
Rotisserie (spit roasting): cooking meat skewered on a rotating spit, or spit, over a heat source so it self-bastes; historically turned by servants, turnspit dogs, smoke jacks, and clockwork, now motorized.
Roubaix
Roubaix is a city in northern France near the Belgian border that grew from 8,300 inhabitants in 1800 into one of the world's leading textile centers by 1900.
Round steak
Round steak is lean beef cut from the round (hind-leg) primal, covering top round (IMPS 1169), bottom round (1170A), eye of round, and sirloin tip steaks. Shear force 9.7 to 11.7 pounds, best cooked moist or low-and-slow, and cooked to 145 degrees F with a 3-minute rest.
Roux
Roux is a cooked paste of equal parts flour and fat used to thicken sauces, soups, and stews; white, blond, brown, and Cajun-dark versions underpin béchamel, velouté, espagnole, and gumbo.
Rowntree's
Rowntree's, British confectionery company of York founded 1862 by Henry Isaac Rowntree; maker of KitKat, Smarties, Fruit Pastilles, Aero, After Eight; merged with Mackintosh 1969, acquired by Nestlé in 1988 for £2.5 billion.
Rowzeh-khani
Rowzeh-khani (روضهخوانی), also transliterated rawda-khani, is a Shiʿi Persian mourning ritual in which a reciter recounts and laments the martyrdom of Imam Ḥusayn at Karbala, named after the 1502 book Rawżat al-shohadāʾ.
Roy Choi
Roy Choi, Korean American chef born in Seoul and raised in Los Angeles, co-founded the Kogi BBQ food truck in 2008, pioneering Korean-Mexican fusion tacos and the gourmet food truck movement; restaurants include Chego!, LocoL, and Best Friend at Park MGM.
Roy Raymond
Roy Raymond (1947–1993), American founder of Victoria's Secret, opened the first store in Palo Alto in 1977 with Gaye Raymond and sold the company to Les Wexner for $1 million in 1982.
Roy Rogers Restaurants
Roy Rogers Restaurants is a Mid-Atlantic fast-food chain founded by Marriott in 1968, named for the cowboy actor, known for its Fixin's Bar and burgers, fried chicken, and roast beef; owned by the Plamondon family since 2002 with about 40 locations.
Royal blue
Royal blue is a deep, vivid, often purplish blue color name first recorded in 1810-20, tied to a Queen Charlotte dress competition, with variants queen blue and imperial blue and standards like Pantone 19-3955 TCX.
Royal christening gown
Royal christening gown: the 1841 Honiton lace and Spitalfields silk Royal Christening Robe commissioned by Queen Victoria, worn by 62 royal babies, retired in 2004 and replaced by an exact replica still in use.
Royal Doulton
Royal Doulton: English ceramics brand founded 1815 in Lambeth, London, by John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts; Royal Warrant 1901; known for stoneware pipes, HN figurines, and fine china; Fiskars Group since 2015.
Royal Stag
Royal Stag (Seagram's Royal Stag), Indian blended whisky launched 1995 by Seagram, Pernod Ricard since 2001; blend of Scotch malts and Indian grain spirits, no artificial flavourings; world's largest-selling whisky, 32.6m cases in 2025.
Rubber duck
Rubber duck, also called rubber duckie or bath duck: a floating yellow bath toy, patented in duck form from 1933 (Shannahan) and 1949 (Ganine, Leaf), now vinyl, popularized by Sesame Street's 1970 "Rubber Duckie."
Ruby chocolate
Ruby chocolate is a pink, sour, berry-flavored fourth type of chocolate introduced by Barry Callebaut in Shanghai on September 5, 2017, made from underfermented or unfermented cocoa beans, first sold as Nestlé KitKat Ruby in Japan in 2018.
Ruby Tandoh
Ruby Tandoh (born 1992, Southend) is a British food writer and 2013 Great British Bake Off finalist; author of Crumb, Flavour, Eat Up!, Cook As You Are, and All Consuming (2025), formerly a Guardian columnist.
Ruby Tuesday (restaurant)
Ruby Tuesday is an American casual dining restaurant chain founded in 1972 in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its burgers and all-you-can-eat Garden Bar salad station.
Ruff (clothing)
The ruff, known in Dutch as the millstone collar, is a detachable pleated collar in starched linen or lace worn in western Europe from the mid-1500s to the mid-1600s.
Rugbrød
Rugbrød (Danish rye bread) is Denmark's dense sourdough rye loaf, the daily bread for over 1000 years and the base of smørrebrød open sandwiches; baked about 75 minutes to a 98 °C core, traditionally unsweetened.
Rugelach
Rugelach (Yiddish for "little twists") is an Ashkenazi Jewish filled pastry descended from Central European kipfel. American versions use cream cheese dough (from the 1930s-1950s); Israeli versions stay yeasted.
Rum
Rum is a distilled alcoholic spirit made by fermenting and distilling molasses or sugarcane juice, first produced by Caribbean sugar planters in the early 1600s.
Rum and Coke
Rum and Coke, also called Cuba Libre, is a highball of rum, cola, and often fresh lime; IBA recipe 50 ml rum, 120 ml cola, 10 ml lime. Claimed 1900 Havana origin via a Bacardi-backed affidavit; first printed as Cuba Libre in 1928; popularized in WWII America.
Rum baba
Rum baba (baba au rhum, babà) is a yeast cake soaked in rum syrup, attributed to Stanisław Leszczyński's pastry chef Nicolas Stohrer, adopted in Paris and perfected in Naples; savarin is its ring-shaped variant.
Rum-running
Rum-running, also called liquor smuggling or bootlegging by sea, was the maritime smuggling of whiskey and rum into the United States during Prohibition (1920–1933), centered on offshore anchorages called Rum Row and suppressed by an expanded Coast Guard.
Rusk
Rusk is twice-baked bread, dried until hard and crisp; known as beschuit, zwieback, biscotti, or beskuit, historically ship's provisions, now a tea-time snack and sausage ingredient.