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Barong tagalog
Barong tagalog (Baro ng Tagalog, "dress of the Tagalog"), also called barong or camisa fuera, is the Philippines' embroidered sheer formal men's shirt worn untucked, made of piña or jusi, made national attire by 1975 presidential proclamation.
Barossa Valley
Barossa Valley: wine region (GI) north-east of Adelaide, South Australia, part of the Barossa zone with Eden Valley; famed for full-bodied Shiraz from vines dating to 1843, Old Vine Charter, and 53,593-tonne 2025 crush.
Barq's
Barq's is a caffeinated American root beer created by Edward C. Barq, Sr. in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1898 at the Biloxi Artesian Bottling Works, franchised widely by 1950, and purchased by Coca-Cola in 1995.
Barrel-aged beer
Barrel-aged beer is beer matured in wooden barrels, typically used bourbon or wine barrels, so the wood and its previous contents flavor the beer before packaging.
Barro negro pottery
Barro negro pottery is burnished black ceramic from San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, colored by low-oxygen reduction firing and shined by quartz burnishing without glaze, a Zapotec tradition over 2,500 years old.
Bartender
Bartender: a worker who mixes and serves drinks at bars, restaurants, and hotels. Also called mixologist. About 762,600 U.S. jobs, median $16.51/hour (May 2025), no formal education required, on-the-job training plus state alcohol-server certification.
Bartending equipment and bar setup
Bartending equipment and bar setup covers the hand tools, glassware, ice handling, and workstation organization behind a commercial bar, including shakers, jiggers, sink requirements, and standard bar dimensions.
Bartending terminology
Bartending terminology: bar vocabulary for serving (neat, up, on the rocks), mixing (shaken, stirred, dry shake, muddling), and service slang (86). Covers ambiguous straight up, IBA standardization since 1961, the 1806 cocktail definition, and zero-proof naming shifts.
Baseball cap
Baseball cap: soft-crowned hat with a stiff forward visor, originating with the 1860 Brooklyn Excelsiors. Fitted, snapback, and trucker variants; on-field MLB standard since New Era's 1993 supply deal; also a global fashion item and limited sun protection.
Based
Based is a slang term meaning agreeable or cool, especially for controversial or unpopular opinions; it began as a drug-culture insult and was reclaimed as praise by the rapper Lil B around 2010.
Basil Hayden's
Basil Hayden's (Basil Hayden since 2022) is an 80-proof Kentucky straight bourbon launched by Booker Noe in 1992 as the lightest member of Jim Beam's Small Batch Collection, using the 63% corn, 27% rye Old Grand-Dad mashbill, named for pioneer distiller Meredith Basil Hayden Sr.
Basket
Basket: a container woven from plant materials such as wicker, cane, bamboo, straw, roots, or splints using coiling, twining, or plaiting; used for carrying, storage, and cultural expression worldwide.
Basket weaving
Basket weaving is the hand interlacing of plant materials such as reeds, grasses, bark, and roots into containers, mats, and other objects, using three basic techniques: coiling, twining, and plaiting.
Basketry in museum collections
Basketry in museum collections is the collecting, cataloging, display, and conservation of woven plant-fiber baskets, which serve as art, ethnographic record, and ancestral belongings for source communities.
Basketry Museum of the Roma
Basketry Museum of the Roma (Μουσείο Καλαθοπλεκτικής των Ρωμά), founded 1995 in Komotini and moved to Thrylorio in 2004, is an ethnological-technological museum of Roma basket-weaving with over 300 baskets from Thrace, the Balkans, and worldwide.
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins, also branded "31 Flavors," is an American ice cream specialty shop chain founded in 1945 in Glendale, California, by brothers-in-law Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, known for the 31-flavors concept and global franchising.
Basque cuisine
Basque cuisine (Euskal sukaldaritza, cocina vasca) is the cooking of the Basque Country, Spain/France: pintxos, txokos, cod and four sauces, New Basque Cuisine from 1977 led by Arzak and Subijana, and the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastián.
Bass Brewery
Bass Brewery, founded by William Bass in Burton upon Trent in 1777 as Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton, made the famous Bass Pale Ale, registered the UK's first trade mark (the red triangle, 1876), and is now an AB InBev brand brewed under contract at Burton.
Bastar Dhokra
Bastar Dhokra (ढोकरा) is the traditional lost-wax casting craft of Bastar, Chhattisgarh, in which the Ghadwa community casts brass and bell metal objects by the cire perdue technique, registered as a Geographical Indication.
Bastille Day
Bastille Day, France's Fête nationale or le 14 juillet, is the national holiday of 14 July, established by the law of 6 July 1880, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, marked by the Champs-Élysées military parade, firemen's balls and fireworks.
Bata Corporation
Bata Corporation (Baťa): family-owned footwear multinational founded 1894 in Zlín, Czechia, by the Baťa siblings; sells 150M+ pairs yearly in 70+ countries via 5,300 stores, largest footwear company in India.
Batik
Batik is a Javanese wax-resist dyeing art using canting and cap tools, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009; celebrated on Indonesia's October 2 National Batik Day and threatened by printed imitations and AI motifs.
Batik in Indonesia
Batik in Indonesia: wax-resist dyeing of cotton and silk using the canting or copper cap, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009, with batik tulis, batik cap, and combination forms certified by the Batikmark.
Batik kraton
Batik kraton is the court batik of Central Java, Indonesia, developed in the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Surakarta, with some motifs once reserved for royalty.
Batik tulis
Batik tulis, meaning "drawn," is the oldest form of Indonesian batik: wax is drawn by hand with a canting to resist dye, taking one to three months per cloth.
Battenberg cake
Battenberg cake, also spelled Battenburg, is a British teatime cake of pink and yellow sponge joined with apricot jam to show a chequered slice, wrapped in marzipan.
Batter (cooking)
Batter (cooking): a semifluid flour-based mixture of flour, liquid, and often eggs, used for pancakes, cakes, and as a frying coating; distinct from dough by its higher water content.
Battle cry
Battle cry: a shout soldiers give charging the enemy, or figuratively a cause's slogan. Covers Greek Alala, Roman discipline, the Rebel yell, Currahee, and scholarship on cohesion.
Baumkuchen
Baumkuchen (バウムクーヘン), German "tree cake," is a layered spit-roasted cake with tree-ring cross-section. Introduced to Japan by WWI POW Karl Juchheim in 1919, it symbolizes longevity there; Salzwedel Baumkuchen holds an EU PGI.
Bavarian cream
Bavarian cream (crème bavaroise, Bayerische Creme, Bavarois): a gelatin-set vanilla custard lightened with whipped cream, molded and unmolded; origin disputed between Bavaria and France, codified by Carême as fromage bavarois.