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Takoyaki (たこ焼き)
Takoyaki (たこ焼き), grilled octopus balls, is an Osaka street food invented in 1935 by Aizuya's Endo Tomekichi from rajioyaki; batter with dashi, egg, octopus, and tenkasu, cooked in a dimpled griddle, topped with sauce and mayonnaise.
Talavera de la Reina
Talavera de la Reina is a city in western Toledo province, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, on the Tagus river, famed for its 16th-century tin-glazed ceramics, inscribed by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2019.
Talavera pottery
Talavera Poblana is a tin-glazed earthenware tradition from Puebla, Mexico, dating to the sixteenth century and recognized for its blue-and-white palette, named after Talavera de la Reina, Spain.
Talim (weaving notation)
Talim is a symbolic notation used by South Asian handloom weavers, above all in Kashmir, to record the color sequence and knot counts of a textile.
Talita von Fürstenberg
Princess Talita Natasha von Fürstenberg, granddaughter of designer Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon, is an American designer. Named DVF muse in 2018, launched TVF for DVF in 2019, co-chairwoman of DVF since October 2021.
Talking Cross
The Talking Cross (Spanish: Cruz Parlante) is a miraculous cross that appeared in 1850 among Maya rebels during the Caste War of Yucatán, speaking through intermediaries.
Talleen Abu Hanna
Talleen Abu Hanna (تالين أبو حنا), Israeli Palestinian Christian model, dancer, and actress from Nazareth; first Miss Trans Israel 2016, second at Miss Trans Star International, Big Brother contestant, and figure in The Belle from Gaza (2024).
Tallit (טַלִּית)
Tallit (טַלִּית), plural tallitot, is the Jewish four-cornered prayer shawl with tzitzit fringes worn mainly at morning services; Ashkenazi versions have black stripes, Sephardi ones are white, and its blue stripes inspired the flag of Israel.
Tam o' shanter (cap)
Tam o' shanter (also ToS, tammie): soft Scottish woollen bonnet with flat circular crown and toorie, named after Burns's 1790 poem hero, word attested 1839; worn by ploughmen, adopted for women c. 1887, and adopted by the British Army in 1915.
Tamago Sando
Tamago Sando is a Japanese egg salad sandwich made with creamy mashed eggs and soft shokupan. It is a standard convenience store item that has gained international popularity.
Tamagoyaki (卵焼き)
Tamagoyaki (卵焼き), Japanese rolled omelette also called atsuyaki tamago or dashimaki tamago: beaten seasoned egg fried in thin layers and rolled in a rectangular pan; Kanto style is sweet, Kansai style dashi-based.
Tamara Ecclestone
Tamara Jane Ecclestone, British model, socialite, and TV personality born 1984 in Milan, eldest daughter of F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone and model Slavica Radić; founder of SHOW Beauty and Fifi & Friends, sister of Petra.
Tamarind seed polysaccharide
Tamarind seed polysaccharide (TSP, tamarind gum, tamarind xyloglucan) is a galactoxyloglucan hydrocolloid from Tamarindus indica seeds, GRAS (GRN 503, 2014), used as thickener, stabilizer, and mucoadhesive ophthalmic excipient.
Tamasin Day-Lewis
Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953, Greenwich, London) is a British food writer, chef, and former documentary filmmaker; daughter of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, sister of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, author of 12 cookery books and Telegraph food columnist.
Tameka Foster
Tameka Foster Raymond (born 1971, Oakland, California) is an American celebrity stylist, designer, and author who styled Usher, Lauryn Hill, and Jay-Z, was Usher's wife from 2007 to 2009, and founded Kile's World Foundation.
Tamil cuisine
Tamil cuisine: food of Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka's Tamil north and east, and the global Tamil diaspora. Rice- and tamarind-based, documented in Sangam literature, with banana-leaf meals, tiffin, Chettinad, and strong vegetarian and meat traditions.
Tamil culture
Tamil culture (பண்பாடு, panpaadu) is the way of life of Tamil-speaking people in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and the diaspora: Sangam-era literature, 2,700-year-old literacy, Chola temples, Bharatanatyam, Carnatic music, and regional and diasporic variation.
Tammy Lynn Leppert
Tammy Lynn Leppert (born 1965) was an American model, beauty queen, and actress from Rockledge, Florida, who appeared in Scarface and Spring Break and vanished July 6, 1983, near Cocoa Beach; her disappearance remains an open unsolved case.
Tan France
Tan France (born Tanweer Safdar) is an English-American fashion designer, television personality, and author from Doncaster, England, known as the fashion expert on Netflix's Queer Eye reboot.
Tanabata (七夕)
Tanabata (七夕), the Japanese Star Festival on July 7, derives from China's Qixi legend of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair), lovers who meet once a year across the Milky Way; wishes are written on tanzaku hung on bamboo.
Tandoor
Tandoor (Hindi/Urdu tandūr, from Arabic tannūr) is a cylindrical clay oven fired from within, used across South and Central Asia to bake naan and roast meats.
Tandoori chicken
Tandoori chicken (तंदूरी चिकन): yogurt-and-spice-marinated chicken roasted in a charcoal-fired clay tandoor; a Punjabi dish popularized by Moti Mahal in post-1947 Delhi, with disputed credit between Kundan Lal Gujral and Kundan Lal Jaggi.
Tang sancai
Tang sancai (唐三彩) is the polychrome lead-glazed pottery of China's Tang dynasty (618–907), made chiefly as burial goods and known for its yellow, green, and white glazes.
Tang Ying
Tang Ying (唐英, 1682–1756) was a Qing-dynasty porcelain official and ceramic artist who ran the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen for nearly three decades under the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors.
Tanghulu (糖葫芦)
Tanghulu (糖葫芦, bingtanghulu) is a Chinese winter street snack of fruit, classically hawthorn, skewered and dipped in sugar syrup cooked to the hard-crack stage (~300°F), forming a glassy shell; Song-dynasty origin, cariogenic like jam, viral on TikTok with burn warnings.
Tango chirimen
Tango chirimen (丹後縮緬) is a high-grade white silk crepe produced in the Tango region of northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, since the Kyoho era of the 1720s, and used mainly as ground cloth for yuzen kimono dyeing.
Tangyuan (汤圆) (food)
Tangyuan (汤圆), also called fuyuanzi or tangtuan, is a Chinese glutinous rice ball with sweet or savory filling, boiled and served in soup, the signature Lantern Festival food; southern tangyuan is wrapped from wet dough, unlike northern rolled yuanxiao.
Tanit Phoenix
Tanit Phoenix (Tanit Jacqueline Phoenix), South African model, actress, and makeup artist born 1980 in Durban, known for the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Death Race 2 and Inferno, Femme Fatales host Lilith, and Hardcore Henry makeup work.
Tanqueray
Tanqueray: London dry gin founded by Charles Tanqueray in London in 1830, made from four botanicals (juniper, coriander, angelica, liquorice), now produced at Cameronbridge Distillery, Fife, and owned by Diageo after the 1898 merger with Gordon's.
Tapa cloth
Tapa cloth, also called barkcloth, siapo, ngatu, masi, or kapa, is a Pacific non-woven textile made by beating paper mulberry inner bark; used for clothing, ceremony, and gifts, with production continuing in Tonga, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.