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Bavarian cuisine
Bavarian cuisine (Bayerische Küche) is the cooking tradition of Bavaria, Germany's largest state, built on pork, potatoes, flour, and dairy and divided into regional cuisines of Altbayern, Franconia, and Swabia.
Bawls
Bawls Guarana, a highly caffeinated guarana soda launched by Hoby Buppert in Miami Beach in November 1996, sold in a cobalt-blue bumpy bottle with 64 mg caffeine per 10 oz, a 2000s LAN-party and QuakeCon gamer staple.
Bay Street Boards
Bay Street Boards: family-owned surf and skate shop at 3216 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, founded by Galeazzo and Sante Bentivoglio (later joined by brother Francesco); known for board repairs, rentals, used boards, and community board swaps.
Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux) is an 11th-century embroidered hanging, about 68 m long, depicting the 1066 Norman conquest of England; kept in Bayeux, France, and loaned to the British Museum in 2026–2027.
Bazaar
A bazaar, also known as a souq (بازار), is a clustered marketplace of shops and stalls central to commerce and social life in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.
Bead
Bead: a small perforated object of glass, shell, stone, clay, bone, or metal, strung or sewn as adornment, currency, or trade good; also called trade beads. Known from 142,000-year-old shell beads, Venetian Murano production, and North American fur-trade assemblages.
Bead embroidery
Bead embroidery (珠绣) is needlework attaching beads singly or in groups to a ground fabric. Includes tambour beading and Luneville work; documented in Tang China, Métis floral beadwork, and Peranakan Nyonya traditions.
Beanie (seamed cap)
Seamed beanie: a brimless skullcap whose crown is sewn from fabric or leather triangles, often topped with a button or pom-pom; etymology from slang "bean" (head), 1940; associated with school and fraternity caps and the whoopee cap.
Beanie Babies
Beanie Babies are a line of beanbag plush toys introduced by Ty Warner in 1993, filled with plastic pellets, that became one of the defining collectible crazes of the 1990s.
Bearbrick
Bearbrick (BE@RBRICK) is a bear-shaped collectible art toy launched in 2001 by Japan's Medicom Toy under Tatsuhiko Akashi, sold in 100%, 400%, and 1000% sizes and decorated through thousands of artist and brand collaborations.
Beard Meats Food
Beard Meats Food, aka Adam Moran, Leeds-based British competitive eater and YouTuber; UK's number one independent competitive eater, MLE world rank 17, records in Yorkshire puddings and Jaffa cakes.
Béarnaise sauce
Sauce béarnaise (béarnaise sauce), also called la béarnaise: a warm French emulsified sauce of clarified butter, egg yolks, shallot-vinegar reduction and tarragon, derived from hollandaise, served with grilled meats and fish, attributed to Collinet in 1830s Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Beat Bobby Flay
Beat Bobby Flay is a Food Network cooking competition series (premiered August 24, 2013) where two chefs compete for the chance to challenge Bobby Flay with a signature dish; blind-judged, Flay wins 62.6% of 543 decided battles.
Beatnik
Beatnik: media stereotype of the Beat Generation, coined by Herb Caen on April 2, 1958 from "Beat" plus the Sputnik-derived suffix "-nik"; a beret-and-bongos caricature the Beats themselves rejected, superseded by "hippie" in the 1960s.
Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), American artist and studio potter called the Mama of Dada; New York Dada journal The Blind Man founder, later famed in Ojai, California for iridescent in-glaze luster earthenware.
Beau Brummell
George Bryan 'Beau' Brummell (1778-1840), London Regency arbiter of men's fashion and model of dandyism, whose austere tailoring, daily-bath grooming, and Royal Ascot dress code shaped modern menswear before debt drove him into French exile.
Beaujolais
Beaujolais, also known as Beaujolais wine, is a French wine region and appellation north of Lyon, producing wines almost entirely from the gamay grape, including the young Beaujolais Nouveau.
Beaujolais nouveau
Beaujolais nouveau, a French vin primeur from Gamay under the Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages appellations, released worldwide the third Thursday of November since a 1985 decree; made by semi-carbonic maceration and promoted globally by Georges Duboeuf.
Beauty pageant
A beauty pageant, also called a beauty contest, is a public competition judged chiefly on contestants' physical appearance, from local events to Miss World and Miss Universe.
Beauty trends among American conservatives
Beauty trends among American conservatives, also called Mar-a-Lago face and Republican makeup, are the plastic surgery, makeup, and fashion aesthetics associated with MAGA figures, marked by overfilled cheeks, full lips, and heavy glam, costing up to $90,000.
Beauvais Manufactory
Beauvais Manufactory, or Manufacture de Beauvais, is a French tapestry manufactory founded in 1664 at Beauvais on Colbert's initiative under Louis XIV, and it still weaves today.
Becherovka
Becherovka is a Czech herbal liqueur from Karlovy Vary, 38% ABV, made since 1807 from a secret recipe of about 20 herbs and spices; known for the Beton cocktail and KV14 offshoot.
Bed and breakfast
Bed and breakfast (B&B): small, typically owner-occupied lodging offering overnight accommodation plus breakfast, with 2–10 guest rooms. Differs from guesthouses and hotels by domestic scale and host residence; definitions, grading, and regulation vary by jurisdiction.
Bedding and Linens
Bedding and linens are bed textiles, from flax sheets to hospital laundry. Distinguishing facts: US healthcare launders about 5 billion pounds yearly, hot-water washing at 71°C for 25 minutes disinfects, and many antibacterial bedding claims fail independent testing.
Beedi (बीड़ी)
Beedi (बीड़ी), also spelled bidi or biri: a thin hand-rolled South Asian cigarette of tobacco flakes wrapped in a tendu (Diospyros melanoxylon) leaf, tied with thread; low-cost, labor-intensive, and more hazardous per puff than cigarettes.
Beef
Beef is meat from full-grown cattle about 2 years old, from Bos taurus and Bos indicus descended from the aurochs. Produced in extensive grazing and grain-fed feedlot systems; the U.S. is the largest producer and consumer, and beef has the highest carbon footprint per unit of protein.
Beef bourguignon
Beef bourguignon (bœuf bourguignon, boeuf à la bourguignonne, beef Burgundy) is a French stew of beef braised in red Burgundy wine with lardons, pearl onions, and mushrooms; first recorded in 1867, codified by Escoffier in 1903, and popularized in America by Julia Child in 1961.
Beef cheek
Beef cheek (ox cheek, cheek meat) is the masseter jaw muscle of the cow, a dark, collagen-rich secondary cut, roughly twice the collagen of chuck roast, made tender by long braising, sous-vide, or pressure cooking into gelatinous barbacoa or carbonnade.
Beef on weck
Beef on weck, also known as Kimmelweck, is a Western New York sandwich of thinly sliced roast beef with horseradish on a kummelweck roll, dipped in au jus.
Beef protein
Beef protein: protein from bovine muscle, also an FDA-notified food ingredient (GRN 313, Proteus Industries, 2010, no-questions letter) used as a water binding coating at up to 0.89%; PDCAAS 92.