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Tavern-style pizza
Tavern-style pizza is a Chicago thin-crust pizza with a cracker-crisp base, toppings spread to the edges, and a cut into squares called the party cut.
Taxidermy
Taxidermy: preserving and mounting animal skins over mannequins to recreate lifelike animals, used in museum dioramas, research, hunting trophies, and rogue taxidermy art; older mounts often contain arsenic.
Taylor Bagley
Taylor Bagley (Taylor Elise Bagley), American model and actress born 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee. Vogue Italia and Gucci La Passione model; actress in Wish I Was Here and The Shuroo Process; formerly with Elite, Wilhelmina, Ford, and Vision LA.
Taylor Hill (model)
Taylor Marie Hill (born 1996), American model, Victoria's Secret Angel from 2015 after her 2014 runway debut, with 196 recorded shows, Lancôme and Joe's Jeans campaigns, and the Tate & Taylor and Stone Fruit brands.
Tazos
Tazos, also called Pogs, milk caps, or Flippos, are collectible discs from 1990s snack-bag promotions, invented in 1994 at Sabritas in Mexico by Pedro Padierna, played by flipping stacks, and distributed worldwide by PepsiCo brands.
Tchotchke
A tchotchke, also spelled tsatske, is a small, inexpensive trinket, ornament, or souvenir of Yiddish and Slavic origin, first attested in American English in the 1960s.
Te Hau-ki-Turanga
Te Hau-ki-Turanga is a carved Māori meeting house built in the early 1840s near Gisborne, New Zealand, the oldest surviving whare whakairo in the country, now at Te Papa in Wellington.
Tea (meal)
Tea (meal): a meal featuring tea as the beverage, also called afternoon tea or high tea. Attributed to the Duchess of Bedford in the 1840s; in northern England, Australia, and New Zealand it means the cooked evening meal.
Tea (茶)
Tea (茶), from Camellia sinensis, is the world's most consumed drink after water. Six types (green, black, white, oolong, dark, yellow) differ by oxidation; ~7 million tonnes produced yearly, led by China and India.
Tea bag
Tea bag (also tea filter): small permeable pouch of filter paper or mesh holding 2–3 g of tea for single-cup brewing. Invented in 1901 prototype (Lawson–Molaren), popularized by Sullivan 1908; 96% of UK tea market by 2007.
Tea culture
Tea culture (茶文化), the customs, arts, and philosophy surrounding tea, originated in China: Tang-era Lu Yu's Classic of Tea systematized it, Song whisked tea and Ming loose-leaf steeping evolved it, and UNESCO inscribed China's traditional tea practices in 2022.
Tea in the United Kingdom
Tea in the United Kingdom: the national drink since its 1650s arrival from China via the Dutch East India Company. About 100 million cups are drunk daily, 97.5% from tea bags; Catherine of Braganza, smuggling, rationing, and afternoon versus high tea shaped its history.
Tea leaf grading
Tea leaf grading sorts manufactured black tea by leaf size, shape and appearance, not quality: whole leaf, broken, fannings and dust, with orthodox codes like OP and FTGFOP and separate CTC and ISO 11286 particle-size systems.
Tea processing
Tea processing converts Camellia sinensis leaves into green, white, yellow, oolong, black, or dark tea via plucking, withering, rolling, enzymatic or microbial oxidation, and drying; oxidation degree and theaflavin-thearubigin balance distinguish the types.
Tea production in Sri Lanka
Tea production in Sri Lanka, or the Ceylon Tea industry, is the country's leading export. Established in 1867, it employs nearly 1 million people and contributes about 2% of the GDP.
Teahouse
Teahouse (茶馆, chaguan; 茶室, chashitsu): an establishment where tea and refreshments are served, central to East Asian social life. Chinese teahouses date to the Song Dynasty as information and leisure hubs; Japanese chashitsu host the tea ceremony; British tearooms emerged from 1894.
Teavana
Teavana: American specialty loose-leaf tea retailer founded 1997 in Atlanta by Andrew and Nancy Mack; went public 2011; acquired by Starbucks in 2012 for $620 million; all 379 US stores closed by 2018; brand and blends survive under Starbucks ownership.
Ted Allen
Ted Allen (born 1965, Columbus, Ohio), also Edward Allen, is an American author and TV personality, Emmy-winning host of Food Network's Chopped since 2009, formerly the food and wine specialist on Queer Eye and a Top Chef judge.
Ted Baker
Ted Baker: British fashion label founded in Glasgow in 1988 by Ray Kelvin, known as 'No Ordinary Designer Label'. Owned by Authentic Brands Group since 2022 (~£210m); UK retail arm entered administration in 2024; returning via licensed concessions and a 2026 London store.
Teeth blackening
Teeth blackening, Japanese ohaguro (お歯黒) or kanetsuke, is the dyeing of teeth black with iron solution and tannin-rich gallnut powder; a Japanese married-women's custom until the 1870 Meiji ban, it also prevented caries and parallels practices across Southeast Asia.
Teetotalism
Teetotalism: total abstinence from all alcohol, named from "teetotal" (1825–35), the pledged movement that arose from 1830s Preston temperance and, by 1840, made temperance largely synonymous with abstinence.
Tefillin (תפילין)
Tefillin (תפילין), phylacteries: black leather boxes with Torah parchment scrolls worn on head and arm during weekday morning prayers; Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam passage-ordering traditions; earliest examples from the Judean Desert Dead Sea Scrolls.
Teh tarik
Teh tarik (拉茶, pulled tea) is the frothy milk tea of Malaysian and Singaporean mamak stalls: strong black tea with condensed and evaporated milk, poured repeatedly between vessels to cool, mix, and foam it; UNESCO-listed in 2024.
Tempeh
Tempeh (tempe) is an Indonesian fermented soybean cake from Java, made with Rhizopus molds, over 400 years old, high in protein (18 g per half cup), and a Codex-standardized staple food.
Temperance movement
Temperance movement: social reform campaign to limit or ban alcohol, strongest in the US (1780s to 1933), Britain, and New Zealand; led by the WCTU and Anti-Saloon League, culminating in US Prohibition (1920 to 1933) and lasting effects on drinking norms.
Temple garment
Temple garment (garment of the holy priesthood): white two-piece underclothing worn day and night by endowed Latter-day Saints, originating in 1840s Nauvoo, symbolizing temple covenants and Christ, with styles updated through 2025 sleeveless releases.
Temple jewellery
Temple jewellery is a South Indian gold jewelry style first made for temple deities, later adopted by Bharatanatyam dancers and brides, with red and green stones set in gold.
Tempranillo
Tempranillo (also Tinta del País, Tinto Fino, Aragonés) is Spain's early-ripening black wine grape, backbone of Rioja and Ribera del Duero, about 231,000 ha worldwide, first documented in 1513, drought-sensitive.
Tempura (天ぷら)
Tempura (天ぷら) is the Japanese deep-fried battered seafood-and-vegetable dish of Portuguese origin, defined by its thin Edo-style coating, tentsuyu or salt serving, 160-180 C frying, and distinct Nagasaki and Satsuma-age variants.
Ten Cent Beer Night
Ten Cent Beer Night: Cleveland Indians beer promotion, June 4, 1974, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, vs Texas Rangers; 10-cent Stroh's beer, 25,134 fans, drunken riot, game forfeited 5-5 to Texas.