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Tapas
Tapas are small Spanish food portions served with a drink, free or ordered; related formats include raciones, media raciones, and Basque pintxos. Defined by the RAE, recognized in a 2018 BOE heritage resolution, with a UNESCO candidacy underway.
Tapenade
Tapenade is a Provençal spread of crushed olives, capers, and anchovies bound with olive oil; named from Provençal tapeno (caper), codified in 1880 by chef Meynier at La Maison Dorée, Marseille, in black and green versions.
Tapestry
Tapestry: handwoven weft-faced textile with discontinuous colored wefts concealing the warp; also called ke-si in China. Distinguished from embroidery such as the Bayeux Tapestry; great European period 14th-18th centuries.
Tapioca
Tapioca: starch extracted from the cassava root (Manihot esculenta), also called cassava or manioc starch; made into pearls by heating moist starch; used as thickener, in puddings, paper, textiles, and adhesives.
Tapioca pearl
Tapioca pearl (粉圓, boba): chewy ball of cassava starch, brown sugar, and water boiled until gummy; the signature topping of Taiwanese bubble tea, invented in 1980s Taiwan, with black and white varieties and popping-boba alternatives.
Tapout (clothing brand)
TapouT, an American MMA clothing brand founded in 1997 by Charles "Mask" Lewis Jr., Dan "Punkass" Caldwell, and Tim "Skyskrape" Katz, grew into the leading MMA apparel maker before Authentic Brands Group acquired it in 2010 and WWE joined a 50/50 fitness rebranding joint venture in 2015.
Taqiyah (طاقية) (cap)
Taqiyah (طاقية), also tagiyah or araqchin, is the short rounded skullcap worn by Muslim men, related to the kufi and topi. Worn for prayer and as a base under turbans or the Gulf ghutra; regional forms include the Omani kumah and Central Asian doppa.
Taquile textiles
Taquile textiles are the handwoven and knitted cloth of Taquile Island, a Quechua community on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, recognized by UNESCO in 2005 and 2008.
Taquito
Taquito (Spanish, 'little taco'), also called rolled taco, taco dorado, or flauta: a Mexican dish of small rolled tortillas, usually corn, filled with beef, chicken, or cheese and fried until crisp; word attested 1917 in New Mexico, defined 1929.
Taramasalata
Taramasalata (taramosalata, ταραμοσαλάτα) is a Greek and Turkish meze dip of salted cured fish roe (tarama) blended with bread or potato, olive oil, and lemon juice, traditionally served on Clean Monday, pale beige to pale pink unless dyed.
Tareq Salahi
Tareq Salahi, American winery owner and reality TV figure of Oasis Winery, Hume, Virginia; known for the 2009 White House state dinner gate-crashing and the family dispute that closed the winery.
Target Australia
Target Australia: Australian department store chain founded 1926 in Geelong as a drapery store, renamed Target Australia Pty Ltd in 1973, owned by Wesfarmers' Kmart Group since 2007, unrelated to US Target Corporation.
Target Canada
Target Canada was Target Corporation's Canadian retail subsidiary, launched in 2013 on 220 Zellers leases bought for $1.8 billion, reaching 133 stores before a 2015 CCAA wind-down costing about $7 billion.
Tarla Dalal (તરલા દલાલ)
Tarla Dalal (તરલા દલાલ) was an Indian cookbook author, cooking teacher, and television cook whose 170-plus vegetarian cookbooks sold over 4 million copies; she received the Padma Shri in 2007.
Tarpaulin
Tarpaulin: a water-resistant covering sheet, historically tar-treated canvas (word c. 1600, from tar + palling), now PE or PVC-coated polyester; uses, materials, UV degradation, and recycling.
Tarps Off
Tarps Off is a sports fan trend and slang meaning shirts off, with tarp as hockey slang for shirt. It spread from October 2025 Oklahoma State football to MLB in May 2026 via the Stephen F. Austin club baseball team at Busch Stadium.
Tartan
Tartan: Scottish woven pattern of interlocking warp and weft stripes, each design a sett; earliest Scottish example the 3rd-century Falkirk sett; clan tartans are a 19th-century development, now recorded in the Scottish Register of Tartans.
Tarte Tatin
Tarte Tatin: French upside-down caramelized apple tart from the Tatin sisters' hotel in Lamotte-Beuvron, Sologne; legend of accidental invention, popularized by Curnonsky and Maxim's, guarded by the Confrérie des Lichonneux.
Tartrazine
Tartrazine (E 102, FD&C Yellow No. 5, Acid Yellow 23) is a synthetic lemon-yellow azo dye used in foods, drugs, and cosmetics, with an ADI of 7.5 mg/kg bw/day, FDA batch certification, and EU labeling for intolerance reactions.
Tartufo
Tartufo (Tartufo di Pizzo) is an Italian hand-shaped gelato dessert of hazelnut and chocolate ice cream around a molten chocolate core, dusted in cocoa; invented in Pizzo, Calabria, in 1952 by Don Pippo and protected by EU PGI status.
Tassel
Tassel: a hanging ornament of bundled threads or cords bound at one end, related to fringe and passementerie; used on curtains, cushions, fezzes, and academic caps; typically 3-12 cm, 20-80+ tassels per meter in trim.
Tata Starbucks
Tata Starbucks Private Limited, a 50:50 joint venture between Starbucks Coffee Company and Tata Consumer Products, operates Starbucks cafés in India from October 2012; 502 stores in 80 cities by March 2026, India's largest café chain by store count.
Tatara iron smelting
Tatara iron smelting (たたら製鉄, tatara seitetsu) is a traditional Japanese method that smelts iron sand with charcoal in a low clay furnace, yielding tamahagane steel for Japanese swords.
Tater tots
Tater tots: bite-sized fried potato nuggets invented in 1953 by Golden and Nephi Grigg at Ore-Ida in Ontario, Oregon, to use French fry scraps; trademarked by Ore-Ida, released 1956, sold to Heinz in 1965.
Tatjana Patitz
Tatjana Patitz (1966–2023), Hamburg-born, Swedish-raised supermodel and actress; original 1990s supermodel, Lindbergh's January 1990 British Vogue cover, "Freedom! '90" video, died of metastatic breast cancer.
Tatreez (تطريز)
Tatreez (تطريز) is Arabic for embroidery and the traditional Palestinian cross-stitch craft worked on women's thobes, with distinct village motifs and colors; UNESCO inscribed it as intangible cultural heritage in 2021.
Tatting
Tatting (frivolité, occhi, Schiffchenarbeit) is a knotted lace made with a single thread and small shuttle, forming rings, chains and picots via the sliding double stitch; a 19th-century popularized handcraft with ~150 technique variants.
Tavel
Tavel is a commune in the Gard, southern France, between the Pont du Gard and Avignon. Ancient Tavellis on the Nîmes–Orange road, Roman villa and baths, medieval church, and a 1937 wine cooperative cellar listed as a Monument historique in 2013.
Tavern
Tavern: a historical drinking and eating establishment, from Latin taberna via Old French taverne; in England a wine-selling house distinct from alehouse and inn, in colonial America the main community gathering place, now largely a literary or licensing term.
Tavern on the Green
Tavern on the Green: landmark restaurant in New York's Central Park, housed in an 1870 Jacob Wrey Mould sheepfold converted by Robert Moses in 1934; peak under Warner LeRoy 1976–2009, bankruptcy 2009, reopened 2014 under Jim Caiola and David Salama.