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Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855
The 1855 Bordeaux classification (Grands Crus Classés en 1855) ranks 61 Médoc red estates in five growths plus Haut-Brion, and 27 Sauternes-Barsac sweet whites in three tiers, by broker price records for Napoleon III's 1855 Paris Exposition; only Cantemerle (1855) and Mouton Rothschild (1973) changed.
Börek
Börek (burek, byrek) is a family of filled yufka or phyllo pastries from the Ottoman culinary sphere, with cheese, meat, or spinach fillings; regional names and shapes differ across Turkey, the Balkans, and beyond.
Boro (ぼろ) (textile)
Boro (ぼろ) are historical Japanese textiles patched, mended, or pieced together by hand, made mainly by poor farmers in northern Japan from the eighteenth to early twentieth century.
Borscht (Борщ)
Borscht (борщ) is a family of Eastern European sour soups built on beetroot, with hot red, green, cold, and white variants across Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia; UNESCO inscribed Ukrainian borscht cooking for urgent safeguarding in 2022.
Boss's Day
Boss's Day (National Boss Day, Bosses' Day) is a U.S. workplace observance on October 16 or the nearest working day, created in 1958 by Patricia Bays Haroski at State Farm for her father's birthday, proclaimed in Illinois in 1962, and critiqued for pressuring employees to gift higher-paid bosses.
Boston Beer Company
The Boston Beer Company (NYSE: SAM), founded in Boston in 1984 by Jim Koch and partners, brews Samuel Adams Boston Lager plus Twisted Tea, Truly, Angry Orchard, Dogfish Head, and Sun Cruiser, with major breweries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Delaware.
Boston cream pie
Boston cream pie is a sponge cake, not a pie: two cake layers with pastry cream and chocolate glaze, created at Boston's Omni Parker House around 1856-1865 and Massachusetts' official state dessert since 1996.
Boston Market
Boston Market, originally Boston Chicken, is an American fast-casual rotisserie chicken chain founded in Newton, Massachusetts in 1985, which peaked above 1,200 locations, went through McDonald's and Sun Capital ownership, and shrank to about two dozen stores under Jay Pandya.
Boston Pizza
Boston Pizza is a Canadian casual-dining and sports bar chain founded in Edmonton in 1964 by Gus Agioritis, acquired by Jim Treliving and George Melville in 1983, with 374 Canadian locations and a TSX-listed royalty fund.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party: December 16, 1773 protest at Griffin's Wharf, Boston Harbor, where colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea from the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver to oppose the Tea Act monopoly, prompting the Intolerable Acts.
Bottarga
Bottarga (avgotaracho, karasumi, batarekh) is salted, pressed, air-dried fish roe, usually grey mullet or tuna, used grated as a Mediterranean seasoning; Sardinia leads production, with Greek PDO avgotaracho and Japanese karasumi as equivalents.
Bottega Veneta
Bottega Veneta is an Italian luxury house founded in Vicenza in 1966 by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro, known for its logo-free handwoven Intrecciato leather (1975). Owned by Kering since 2001; 2025 revenue €1.7 billion; Creative Director Louise Trotter since January 2025.
Bottled in bond
Bottled in bond, or bonded whiskey, is a US legal designation from the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897: one distiller, one season, four years aged, 100 proof, water only, government-supervised bonded warehouse.
Bottled water
Bottled water, or packaged drinking water, is water sealed in containers for sale, sourced from springs, wells, mineral aquifers, or municipal tap water. Key facts: FDA 250 ppm TDS mineral-water definition, ozone disinfection, USD 285 billion 2020 market, 92-100% microplastic detection.
Boudin
Boudin is a type of sausage with two distinct uses. In France, it is a cooked charcuterie preparation, while in Louisiana, it is a seasoned link of pork and rice.
Bouillabaisse
Bouillabaisse: Marseille's Provençal rock-fish stew, from Provençal boui-abaisso ("when it boils, lower the heat"), served as saffron broth with rouille and croutons, then fish cut at table; governed since 1980 by a 17-signatory charter requiring at least 4 fish species.
Bouillon cube
Bouillon cube, also stock or broth cube, dehydrated broth in about 4 g cubes; invented by Julius Maggi in 1908 using hydrolyzed vegetable protein; followed by OXO and Knorr; high in salt, used worldwide.
Boulle work
Boulle work, also spelled Buhl work, is a style of marquetry in which designs cut from brass or pewter are set into tortoiseshell, named for the French cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle.
Bourbon whiskey
Bourbon whiskey: American whiskey of at least 51% corn, distilled to 160 proof or less and aged in new charred oak; also called Kentucky straight bourbon. Key facts: US-only name, 95% made in Kentucky, sour mash process, ~16 million barrels aging, $10.6 billion industry.
Boursin cheese
Boursin cheese, a French fresh cow's milk spread also called Gournay cheese, created by François Boursin in Normandy; Garlic & Fine Herbs launched 1963, famous for "Du pain, du vin, du Boursin," now owned by Bel Group.
Boutonnière
Boutonnière, also called buttonhole in British English, is a single flower or bud worn on the left lapel of a suit or tuxedo, traditionally through the lapel buttonhole; distinct from the fuller corsage.
Bovril
Bovril, the British beef and yeast extract paste created by John Lawson Johnston as Johnston's Fluid Beef around the 1870s French army beef contract, renamed in 1886; made as a hot drink, spread, and stock, briefly vegetarian 2004-2006, now a Unilever brand made in Burton on Trent.
Bow tie
Bow tie: neckwear tied in a bow with two loops, word attested 1887. Descends from the 17th-century cravat worn by Croatian mercenaries; white tie formality uses a white bow tie. Distinct from long neckties.
Bowes Museum
The Bowes Museum, founded by Joséphine and John Bowes in Barnard Castle, County Durham, opened in 1892; a French château-style Grade I listed museum holding over 58,000 objects including the Silver Swan automaton and works by Goya and Canaletto.
Bowing in Japan
Bowing in Japan (ojigi, お辞儀) is the standard Japanese greeting, thanks, and apology gesture, replacing the handshake. Key forms are eshaku (15°), keirei (30°), and saikeirei (45°); it came from China, was formalized in samurai etiquette, and raises perceived attractiveness most strongly for Japanese observers.
Bowler hat
Bowler hat, also called derby or Coke hat: hard felt hat with dome crown and curled brim, created 1849 by Lock & Co. for Edward Coke's gamekeepers; later City of London icon and traditional Aymara women's dress in Bolivia.
Box braids
Box braids, or box braiding, are individual three-strand braids started from square scalp sections, usually with synthetic extensions, worn as a protective style for Afro-textured hair.
Boxing Day
Boxing Day, December 26, is a UK and Commonwealth public holiday also called St. Stephen's Day. Named for Christmas boxes given to servants or church alms boxes, it is now marked by sales and sports, not the sport of boxing.
Boza
Boza: thick, lightly fermented cereal drink of Turkey and the Balkans (braga, busa), made from millet, wheat, or maize; sweet-sour, pH 3.16–4.63, alcohol 0.03–0.79%, served in winter with cinnamon and roasted chickpeas.
Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown is an American clown character created in 1946 by Alan Livingston for Capitol Records, voiced by Pinto Colvig, and franchised nationwide by Larry Harmon from 1956.