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Yorkie (chocolate bar)
Yorkie is a chunky solid milk chocolate bar launched in 1976 by Rowntree Mackintosh (now Nestlé) and made in York, England. Known for its lorry-driver adverts and the 2002 "It's not for girls" campaign.
Yorkshire pudding
Yorkshire pudding: British savoury baked batter of flour, eggs, and milk cooked in hot beef drippings; named in Hannah Glasse's 1747 cookbook; served with the Sunday roast; related to American popovers and Dutch babies.
Yoruba beadwork
Yoruba beadwork is the bead-embroidered royal art of the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria and Benin, best known for the veiled beaded crowns worn by sacred kings.
Yoruba shrine sculpture
Yoruba shrine sculpture is the art made for the shrines and altars of the Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria and Benin, emphasizing enlarged heads as the seat of spiritual power.
Yoshinoya (吉野家)
Yoshinoya (吉野家) is Japan's oldest major gyudon beef bowl chain, founded 1899 in Nihonbashi, Tokyo; flagship of Yoshinoya Holdings with about 1,291 domestic and 1,095 overseas stores, known for its secret sauce and the 2003-2006 BSE gyudon suspension.
Yōshoku (洋食)
Yōshoku (洋食) is Japanese-style Western cuisine from the Meiji era: dishes like tonkatsu, curry rice, and korokke adapted to Japanese tastes, served with rice and soy-sauce-based sauces, popularized in the Taishō period.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi, Israeli-born London chef and cookbook author, co-founded the Ottolenghi delis with Sami Tamimi in 2002, wrote Jerusalem, Plenty, and Simple, and champions vegetable-forward Middle Eastern cooking.
Youn's Kitchen (윤식당)
Youn's Kitchen (윤식당) is a tvN Korean reality show by Na Young-seok in which celebrities run a pop-up Korean restaurant abroad; seasons aired in Indonesia (2017) and Spain (2018), spawning Youn's Stay and Jinny's Kitchen.
Youtiao (油条)
Youtiao (油条, also yu tiao, Chinese cruller, you zha gui) is a Chinese deep-fried dough stick breakfast food, fried in pairs so the pressed seam stays soft and expands; historically alum-leavened, now aluminum-free since China's 2014 rule.
Yubitsume (指詰め)
Yubitsume (指詰め), also enkozume, is the yakuza ritual of amputating one's own little finger as apology or atonement; historically widespread, now legally prohibited when coerced and declining among younger members.
Yuengling
Yuengling (D.G. Yuengling & Son) is America's oldest brewery, founded 1829 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, as the Eagle Brewery; family-owned, known for Traditional Lager, and largest U.S. craft brewer.
Yukata (浴衣)
Yukata (浴衣), from yukatabira, is Japan's unlined cotton summer kimono, worn skin-to-skin with geta and a hanhaba or heko obi. Originating as Heian bathing wear, it spread via Edo bathhouses and Meiji chusen dyeing to become festival and ryokan wear.
Yūki tsumugi
Yūki tsumugi (結城紬) is a Japanese silk kimono fabric handwoven around Yūki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1956 and added to UNESCO's heritage list in 2010.
Yukta Mookhey
Yukta Mookhey (युक्ता मुखी), also Yukta Inderlal Mookhey, is an Indian activist and actress who won Miss World 1999 at Olympia, London, the fourth Indian Miss World, later acting in Pyaasa and working as a prenatal educator.
Yule
Yule (Old English geol, Old Norse jol): Germanic midwinter season recorded in Bede and Gothic calendars, later an English word for Christmas, and a modern Pagan solstice festival on December 21; etymology ultimately unknown.
Yule log
Yule log: Christmas tradition of burning a large log in the hearth from Christmas Eve; also the French bûche de Noël cake and the televised WPIX fireplace loop first aired in 1966.
Yule log (cake)
Bûche de Noël (Yule log cake, log cake): French rolled génoise sponge with cream filling, frosted as a wooden log, replacing the burned Christmas Eve Yule log; first recipe printed by Pierre Lacam in 1890.
Yum cha (饮茶)
Yum cha (飲茶, jam2 caa4), Cantonese for "drink tea", is the teahouse custom of eating dim sum with Chinese tea, originating in Qing Guangzhou, transformed in postwar Hong Kong, and spread to Japan and overseas Chinatowns.
Yum yum sauce
Yum yum sauce, also called white sauce or shrimp sauce, is an American mayonnaise-based pink condiment served at Japanese hibachi steakhouses since the 1960s; it is not Japanese in origin. Terry Ho bottled it commercially.
Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, is a Louisville, Kentucky-based fast-food franchisor spun off from PepsiCo in 1997. It owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Habit Burger & Grill, operates over 63,000 restaurants in 155 countries, is over 98% franchised, spun off Yum China in 2016, and sold Pizza Hut for $2.7 billion in 2026.
Yumi Nu
Yumi Nu (born 1996, Englewood, New Jersey) is an American plus-size model, singer-songwriter on Dim Mak, and founder of Blueki; first Asian curve model in Vogue and the 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover.
Yup'ik clothing
Yup'ik clothing: traditional dress of western Alaska, including fur atkuk parkas of muskrat, squirrel, and caribou, waterproof gut-skin rain parkas, and the cotton qaspeq (kuspuk).
Yusheng (鱼生)
Yusheng (鱼生), also called yee sang, is a raw fish salad tossed communally (lo hei, 捞起) during Chinese New Year in Singapore and Malaysia; the colorful seven-ingredient version was created by four Singapore chefs in the 1960s.
Yūzen
Yūzen (友禅染, yūzen-zome) is a Japanese paste-resist dyeing technique for kimono, named after the Kyoto fan painter Miyazaki Yūzensai and developed in the Genroku era.
Yūzū Nenbutsu
Yūzū Nenbutsu is a Japanese school of Pure Land Buddhism founded by the Tendai monk Ryōnin around 1117, teaching that the merit of reciting the nenbutsu flows between all people.
Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008), born in Oran, Algeria, was the French couturier who ran Dior at 21, founded his own house with Pierre Bergé in 1961, and created Le Smoking, the Mondrian dress, and couture-house luxury ready-to-wear.
Yvie Oddly
Yvie Oddly is the stage name of Jovan Bridges, an American drag queen based in Denver, Colorado, who won season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2019.
Yvonne LaFleur
Yvonne LaFleur, New Orleans fashion designer and retailer, opened You Boutique on Hampson Street in 1969 selling $8 custom-altered jeans; renamed after her 1984 signature fragrance, known for custom millinery, bridal wear, and free alterations.
Za'atar (زعتر)
Za'atar (زعتر) is both a Levantine wild herb, Origanum syriacum (Bible hyssop), and the eponymous spice blend of dried herb, toasted sesame, sumac, and salt, eaten with olive oil on manakish flatbread across Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan.
Zabaione
Zabaione, also zabaglione or sabayon, is an Italian foamy custard of egg yolks, sugar, and wine (Marsala, Moscato, or Vin Santo) whisked in a bain-marie, thickening at 82–85 °C; a Piedmont PAT since 2015 with disputed 16th-century origins.